A few weeks ago I spent a better part of an hour dumping out about $500 worth of alcohol down my drain.  Most people would think I’m nuts, but I had to do it. It was time to face the cold hard facts - I’m getting old, my health is in the toilet.  Let me tell you a story about The Girl ...

That’s right, I even took a picture of what my doctor wrote down for me.  I have Acquired Idiopathic Dysautonomia with Polyneuropathy, and I couldn’t be happier. How cool is it that my doctor even misspelled it? When I heard him, I was like, “What the fuck is that?”  Acquir...

YANMD, but please help. I'm worried I might be developing some sort of Thyroid condition- or is it just that I'm already sick with strep throat? How worried should I be about this? So on Friday morning I woke up with strep throat. Not so much of the sore throat part really, mostly tired, cold and mi...

I'm pretty sure I have thyroid issues. I see the doctor in three weeks. What can I do until then and how do I know whether I need to see someone sooner? I strongly suspect that I have thyroid problems, particularly a hyperactive thyroid. I realize that YANAD/YANMD, and I've already made an appointme...

Stolen from Dr. Pepper , who in turn stole this MeMe from Writer Chick , so thanks to both ladies. 1. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE? Almost.  My mom almost named me Sandy, after her best friend.  Instead, she went with something that means something cool in Latin.  Latin is so cool, I wish I lived ...

I was driving home from my Physical Therapy appointment last night, basically in tears from getting a masage on my impinged shoulder.  I have tendonitis in both shoulders, and now my right shoulder, breast and bicep hurt like a mother f–ker.  It got me thinking … What are your secre...

Your Thyroid and Weight loss – The Connection is Real   Your thyroid dictates much of your metabolism, any malfunction or disease afflicting this area may cause you to have problems in metabolism leading to a drastic problem with your weight – you may either gain weight, lose weight, or may fin...

Visceral fat puts them at greater risk of health problems Older adults who are depressed are twice as likely to gain visceral fat, or fat around their organs, than people of the same age who aren’t depressed, a study in the Archives of General Psychiatry reports. People in their 70s were involved ...

I'm at the point where I'm damned if I don't find out and damned if I do find out what exactly is wrong with me medically. It seems I'm just the genetic blacksheep. It's always one thing after another and the more I try to learn about what the causes are, the more I just get depressed. Then there's ...

X-posted in my own journal I've been putting this off for awhile now. Just resting and recuperating. Apparently, over the weekend I had a spontaneous twin reduction. My first ultrasound was scheduled for Monday afternoon, but Saturday night I started bleeding very heavily and passing a HUGE clot and...