Doctor Report

So I told my endo about my problems and my thoughts.  His response (roughly paraphrased):

The Internet is about the only place you will learn about using T3.  If your T3 is low, T3 will help you.  I'd bet it's not.  I've been wrong twice before, but if you want to test your T3, we'll test your T3. Quite often, we have people who come in and want to be put on a T3 supplement.  We do the test and I tell them their T3 is fine.  So they go somewhere else and find someone who will prescribe them the T3.  They feel better for a couple of weeks, then go back.  They get a higher dosage, feel better for a couple of weeks, then get a higher dosage and wonder what went wrong. What I'd be more willing to bet is that you have sleep apnea.  You have all the symptoms of it.  In fact, I had the exact same symptoms and didn't want to believe I had sleep apnea, either.  If you do have sleep apnea, your body thinks it's dying and is responding by burning less calories.  Many people think you have sleep apnea because you gained weight, but usually it's you have sleep apnea, so you gain weight, which causes your sleep apnea to be worse....it's a vicious cycle.  Keep trying to exercise, though, even if it's just a short walk every day.  You have to get to a certain cycle of sleep before you wake up feeling rested and before your body will burn the calories it's supposed to while you're sleeping.

He spent a fair amount of time talking with me.  And if we need to rule this out, then, so be it.  If it will make me get a good night's sleep, feel less tired, etc., then, okay.  And if this doesn't work, then, I'll be back at the drawing board. 

In the meantime, I'm waiting for a phone call.  I'm signing up for tap dancing classes in the morning (who's going to come see me in the recital in May??)  And I'm going to dig out that Richard Simmons tape and see if I can't bolster up some get up and go.  Right now, though....  I'd really like to take a nap....