Journal

 Hello,

  Im just waking up and have been refelecting at how busy life can be. Its seems like for the last few months I just havent stopped. I am working 40 to 50 hours a week, running errands , helping my grandmom, cleaning my house and on and on and on. No wonder as a society we all have so many health problems. When do people really ever get time to themselves? It amazes me at how excoited I get when I wake up and just have nothing to do. Or when I get up in the morning and say gee I ONLY have to do wash and Work today what a nice break.

  I think we all need to get our priorities straight. Yeah we are all workimg towards retirement but, I would rather have the free time when I am young and can actually enjoy it! 

Okay I really do need to vent. I was under the assumption that DS is a support network not a dating site!! I turned on my chat and someone this morning, i think , was hitting on me. Maybe not but, how am I supposed to take...you look yopunger than 31 followed by are you still wearing your PJ's. It was not sooo abnoxious but, I kinda felt like it was flirting. Last week I had someone chat with me and as soon as I mentioned I had a boyfriend I was suddenly getting one word answers. Another person in my support group decided to ask me to be a friend and told me I was cute. I just acceppted his friendship and took that as a friendly comment. When I looked at his activity, He was only talking to younger girls and was pretty crude at that! Needless to say I removed him as a friend.

  I come here to give and recieve support not to find a date, flirt, or anything like that. If you happen to read this before you decide to chat with me, understand I am in a long term relationship, 10yrs as a matter of fact, and have no interest in anyone other than my man. I am in love and even consider flirting a form of cheating and dishonesty!

  I don't want to turn off my chat however because I want to offer support to people who need it and recieve the same. This is a give and take thing!

  If you are out trolling for women(or men) in a support group that is really low! There are dating sites for that. Get a life!!!!!!!

  I made a really great decision for myself. I have decided to quit smoking again. Its a horrible disgusting and unhealthy habit that needs to stop now! I don't even enjoy them anymore and I am sure that it must have some effect on my hypothyroidism. I just like to think about all the money I will save and how much better I will feel after I accomplish this. My cloths will no longer stink, my skin will look younger and my teeth wont be as yellowed.

  I actually quit several years ago and managed to make it a whole year until I had some health issues and the stress drove me back to the smokes...I'm an idiot...I know. I just remember how wonderful I felt. I did gain a bunch of weight but, I think the chub was well worth the postive effect it had on my health!

  I have some concearn when it comes to my hypo, though I am not going to let that stop me. What I am concearned about is when I quit the the last time I used the nicotine patch and it worked really well...but, it made my heart race a little. When I started on synthroid I had heart palpitations I am wondering if the patch is going to be safe while I am taking the synthroid. What I figure is that I will try it and if I feel any negetive effect I will make a visit to the doctor and see what other options I have. I am curious about the Chantix I hear about, but the side effects of that medication are a bit scary too. I guess I will just ask the doctor how common they are. I know from being in medical market research that they have to mention every side effect that happens in a clinical trial even if its just one person out of 10,000 that had it!

  I also am a bit conceared about how quitting will effect my levels. I don't know if I will need to monitored more often or what. I have asked for advice from my hypothroidism group, hopefully someone will have done this already and can impart some advice!

  Overall my excitement it outweighing my fear and I really feel ready to do this again. If I succeed (forever this time) it will be one of the best accomplishements that I make in my life. Yeah me!!!