ex150ish: Aftershocks

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17/06/23 97.5

16/06/23 97.7

15/06/23 97.6

14/06/23 97.8

13/06/23 98

My weight started falling again. Quite speedily. Half a kilo in four days.

I can't explain that and again, I notice that I am surprised by it. On the 17th of June I was 97.5kg

But even weirder, my body temperature started rising, and I started feeling far too hot during the day.

I measure my waking temperature very carefully every day by a reliable method, as soon as I fully wake up. I use it to control my thyroid dose (another long story of crackpot amateur self-doctoring), which has been stable at 100ug T4 + 1grain NDT daily for about ten years now.

It's always around 36.7C, usually just below.

36.7C seems to be a buffer-temperature for me, I think if I'm hotter than that I probably start dumping the excess heat.

Any higher than that is usually a bad sign, and is usually followed by the symptoms of mild thyrotoxicity (anxiety, jitteriness, feeling too hot)

There was no real change in my waking temperature.

But I just felt too hot all the time during the day. And I started to feel a bit jittery.

I didn't think at the time to check for hand tremors, which are very characteristic of thyroid overdose. I’m out of practice.

But it was uncomfortable, and so I dropped a dose of T4. That's usually enough.

But it wasn't.

I kept feeling too hot. As in taking-cold-showers to cool down too hot. Sweating a lot.

So I kept dropping doses of T4. That usually produces a depressive crash within a few days, but it didn't. Ever since, I've been dropping a dose of T4 every other day.

On Thursday 15th June I was not feeling well.

I was tired all day, so tired that I tried to take an afternoon nap but couldn't sleep. I was also far too hot. I took a cold shower to try to get my temperature down. It worked, but only briefly. An hour later I was far too hot and shatteringly tired.

I dragged myself to choir. I was sweating like a pig, angry and irritable and shattered. For the first time in my life I had to sit down while everyone else was standing up. As soon as it was over I headed straight home without going to the pub and went to bed.

In retrospect, this sounds like thyrotoxicity.

I did manage a few shortbread biscuits and some tea.

The next day I was sluggish in the morning, but suddenly became fine in the afternoon.

And I missed the blinding mental clarity of ketosis and I felt that I hadn't given ex150ish enough time to decide whether it really worked.

I'd been on the carbs for a week or so, but I'd been eating out mostly. I hadn't actually bought any new food. Pot of everlasting carb-free stew still on the stove, fridge still containing pots of cream.

So I went back on ex150ish. Possibly, in retrospect, a bad decision...