How I discovered my hypothyroidism

In the days when I was working as a plastic surgeon so I went often to the U.S. in congresses and training. On one occasion when I sat there for a Congress in a dark lecture hall and was very excited for the next speaker, I felt suddenly that I was incredibly tired and had very difficult to stay awake. I did not understand why, but most thought it was weird. Afterwards, we used colleagues discuss the lecture and maybe go out for dinner, but there was no question for me, but I went straight up to my room and would sleep. I thought. Instead I lay there, staring at the ceiling and I remember thinking: "I am sick."

I went home earlier from the U.S. at that time, there was no sense to stay when you could not stay awake during lectures. When I got home I talked with a colleague and told him I would retire early to me because I did not feel well, the clinic would I donate to a colleague so that everything was already clear in principle. "You're crazy," she said, "you can not do, of course you must at least go and take samples." So I went home to Sofia and took some blood samples, which showed a slight elevation of TSH. I called another colleague, an endocrinologist (a specialist in the field), and asked if he would start treating a patient with the values I got out of my samples. He would not. He can not understand, or even imagine, how tired I am, I thought, and instead began to medicate myself.

I sent my nurse down to the pharmacy with a prescription and took out a jar Levaxin, and because I did not know how to medicate, I started with the lowest dose, and then I have gradually grown to what is best for me. Even after my first tablet, I felt it was like I woke up, which was a fascinating experience. It's quite rare that people react so quickly to the medicine, but I actually did it.

I started working with hypothyroidism

Some 15 years later, I read a book by Mark Starr, Hypothyroidism Type 2, which really caught me. I became so interested in the subject that I read everything I came across on hypothyroidism, and I realized that there was an incredible problems behind the disease. I realized how many there were who did not get help with his fatigue. And it was then I realized that this was what I wanted to work with.

Read more about the thyroid and hypothyroidism in this article, as I'm in, from the Medical Access Over Function of the thyroid gland - an underestimated condition