bdiddy-
your post sounds a good bit like my own story.
I urge you to ask your doctor to do a 'full panel' blood test -
I went almost two YEARS feeling just terrible
body pain, dizzy, shortness of breath, pasty skin,
no energy, chest pains, palptations...
all increasing as my sobriety lengthened...
until, FINALLY my doctor ran a 'full panel' blood test.
And you know WHY she finally did it?
I'd taken her a list of
'conjestive heart failure' symptoms.
Out of 30 symptoms
I had 28.
She said you don't die of conjestive heart failure.
I said (in a way that most of the building heard me)
"I'm pretty effin sure when your effin heart stops you effin die.
That sounds fatal as all hell to me"
(I could hear the nurses station laughing down the hall.
She only ran that test to prove me WRONG.
She called me back within three hours.
Asking if I could come pick up the medication,
OR DID I WANT HER TO BRING IT TO MY HOUSE.
THey found my thyroid had stopped working and my TSH was over 100.
tHAT'S considered fatal.
(TSH= thyroid stimulating hormone)
Please don't let this drag out.
Two months,
you're not gonna be an olympic ready athlete
zoomion up and dow the stairs like Bojangles...
but your body ... sounds like it's talking to you.
And tellin you that something's not right.
So please -
make another appointment
show them this if you need to
and get yourself some peace of mind, if nothing else.
Many of us drank to alleviate other symptoms
but our alcoholism had progressed to the point
we thought it was just the drinking.
There is no 'home remedey' for thyroid crisis.
It *has* to be treated chemically, either by live hormone
or by synthetic.
ps- I made her bring it to me... heehee.