Originally Posted by
miked
Thanks Scrappah, I may be the most doctored person you know. My thyroid was removed several years ago so I take supplemental thyroid meds.
With my kidney transplant comes lots of meds and side effects which include high risk of skin cancer. And just to add to it diabetes, high blood pressure and atrial fibrillation(heart beat issue).
I see the kidney doc 4 times a year with extensive labs, diabetes/thyroid doc 4 times a year with extensive labs, Skin doc and heart doc 2 times a year.
Also I'm married to a woman from Vietnam who wants me to take herbal meds. Like I said I am likely the most doctored man you know.
I did purchase a bike, Trek Shift 3 which has gotten far less use than I would like to report. I haven't given up on it but I find that unless the weather is pretty good I'm not going to ride.
I used to ride a mountain bike, 20 plus years ago, on trails in the woods. It was great fun and great exercise. I recommend it to those who are physically able. Its best to go to a real bike shop and get a bike worth owning. Also in all the ads they only show young skinny people riding bikes but older fat people can ride and have fun doing it. 73, Mike
I've been fortunate so far. I'll be 60 in a few years and no real problems except for an overactive thyroid. I think i came by it honestly because i've always been a bit hyper but the doc didn't pick up on it till about four or five years ago when it started causing problems. Among other things ... it can kick your immune system into overdrive and cause it to start attacking healthy tissue. I started having problems with my vision and the eye doctor got in his head that it was caused by cancer that had gotten up into the eye socket and formed a tumor.
Had a big go-around with my regular MD with that one. He's not a bad doctor but kind of a horse's necktie. Strongly opinionated and not all that good with people. I knew they had made a bad call with the cancer thing but it took awhile to get that notion out of his head. Once we got that out of the way it came up as being a dead giveaway for being a thyroid problem. It's not all that hard to treat. Just 5 or 10 mg / day of a medicine that slowly shrinks the size of the thyroid so that it's not putting out so much of the hormone that kicks your system into overdrive. After a number of years the problem can go into remission. Every so often i'll stop taking the medicine just to see where things are at. If i start feeling crappy after a couple of weeks than i start back up on the medicine again.
There's a noticeable difference between with and without. I always laid it off to just getting older when i was in my 40's. You know .... the joint pains that feel like arthritis, muscle spasms that keep you in constant pain, body aches, and getting tired easily amongst a whole bunch of other things. It took ten or fifteen years before the answer presented itself but it all seemed to track down to one root cause.
From what i understand, people with an underactive thyroid suffer with a lot of the same symptoms except that they have what's called a moon face and tend to carry a lot of extra weight.
Similar problems for those who have had their thyroid removed it can be difficult to get the hormone replacements tuned in so that you aren't running either too fast or too slow.
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