Sorry for keeping you all in suspense. I haven’t been near the computer at all this weekend as it makes me feel worse when I am near it.
Friday morning when I was in the shower I had a sudden epiphany that my problem could be to do with my thyroid and I checked online and the symptoms seemed to match. Anyway, I went off to the chinese medical centre and spoke to the doctor there and when I described all my symptoms he said that is a thyroid problem.
Can you believe that my doctor and the hospital doctor didn’t even pick up on this? All this time I have been pointing to the exact place where my thyroid is and no-one even guessed. (I think they all need to be shot)
Anyway, the energy in my body is meant to run from head to toe but in my case it’s running from toe to head which is why the gastric juice is flowing back up to my throat (so he says) and so I had acupuncture for my thyroid. 2 of the acupuncture needles were actually stuck in each side of my neck, and 2 on either side of my cheek bones, 1 between my eyebrows (for sleep), 1 each in the inside of my elbow and wrist, 1 each in between my thumb and forefinger, 1 each in my knees, 1 each in my inner calf, 1 each in my ankle and 1 each in between my big toe and next toe. This is the meridian for thyroid and is how the energy runs, so by sticking the needles in those points it’s getting the energy back to normal.
By the end of the 25 minutes of laying there I was sooo sleepy. I couldn’t stop yawning! It was great to be able to get a good night’s sleep after nights of tossing and turning!
The doctor said my not having a period for 78 days was due to the thyroid problem as it has to do with the regulation of hormones so I got given herbal pills for the thyroid and for my menstrual cycle. The pills for menstrual are small round balls and I have to take 50 of them twice per day! haha…it’s not so much fun counting them out though.
Anyway, I felt a bit better after the acupuncture and on saturday after lunch I noticed a difference, I didn’t have the intensity of burning that I usually do in my throat, so it seems to be working.
At the moment I’m battling extreme exhaustion and fatigue, I am so tired and just want to sleep, sleep, sleep. I’m sure it’s another sign of the thyroid having problems, I just hope I will be able to right it somewhat through this chinese medicine.
I am having acupuncture again at 11:30 am today so I hope that gets more of the energy moving about.
This weekend was nice and quiet. I shouted Yasu lunch as a kind of pre-birthday event on saturday and saturday afternoon we wandered around a new shopping precinct, had a look at some homewares stores, found this really unique porch light which we bought and is getting sent over from Melbourne.
Then on Sunday it was Yasu’s birthday (a big 35!) and he was happy to receive some different varieties of cup noodle (cheese curry, meat king, and spicy grilled chicken) which he hadn’t had before, and some of his favourite Japanese snacks like Takenoko no Sato and Chocoball and he also got some no alcohol beer – Kirin and Bar Bi Can. We tried the beer last night, the Kirin was nice, but the Bar Bi Can was so watery we ended up pouring the rest of the can out.
For dinner I made roast pork with really crunchy pork crackling (I finally found the way to make it good after watching someone do it on tv) and roast veggies, and for dessert we had Vienetta which Yasu chose and it was yum! He hadn’t had it before and I hadn’t had it for years…
Anyway so it was a good weekend and thanks to the acupuncture I didn’t have to dwell too much on the way I was feeling. Even though I felt sick, it wasn’t right there in my face annoying me, I was able to do other things.
