I had my yearly check-up at the endo - actually, I got booted to his nurse practitioner.
Since my levels we fine last month, she basically kept saying my thyroid was fine. Ok, that is good.
Then she lectures me for 10 mins about exercise. Fine, I know I should exercise. I know it's hard for anyone to find time to do it, but I think my situation is worse than most. I work 3:30am-11:30am. I get home by 12:30pm and DH leaves for work at 2pm. DS2 does not go to day care since one of us is always home. With my crazy work hours, I nap in the afternoon when he does. Then we get up have dinner, and an hour or two later, it's bed time. After DS is in bed, I get ready for work the next day and get to sleep around 9pm. I am ALWAYS exhausted. I really do not have much time at all for exercise. I explain to this nurse that I have been doing what I can. For example: I now go up & down stairs at work ALL the time now that they moved us (never use the elevator). We don't even have a bathroom on this floor - I make lots of trips all day long with all the water I drink! I have begun taking the stairs two at a time even. I always park far away from a store and walk. I have been seriously trying to add bits of exercise wherever I can. I walked DS to the park a mile away, uphill & pushing him in his stroller last week. She then says to me "the stairs don't count - it only counts if you have at least 30 minutes of sustained exercise." HUH?! All the new info on exercise says that even small bursts of activity "count!"
Oh, and she asks about my extremely dry & cracked hands. I tell her they've been pretty bad and that I load them up with Auqafor at night and wear gloves to bed. She says well that's just because it's winter. I say "well, it's been like this since August." She doesn't respond. She then flips through my file and says that I complained about extreme dry skin last year too. She then asks if I ever saw a dermatologist as they sugggested back then. I say yes, in May (not winter - their excuse for my dry skin!). She then asks what the derm. said. I tell her that my derm. said it was most likely my thyroid! She looks at me then says "I guess you are in the middle, huh?" End of that subject.
She also kept saying how great it was that I am down 20 lbs. since last year. Yeah, that is great. BUT, I have been doing WW faithfully and haven't lost anything since July! I have been hanging around 10 lbs. above goal since then. She then went into her 'we-women-have-to-exercise' spiel.
Sorry so long! Just had to get this off my chest to those who understand! I know my thyroid levels check out fine. I just think there is
something going on. Probably nothing major, but something nonetheless! It just would have been nice to have truly been heard.
I am NOT going back there next year!
Ok...I have been trying to lose weight for quite a while. this is the most I have weighed ever.
if "normal" people's levels fluctuate daily and they have a healthy thyroid that can adjust to the changes but we don't, won't we have periods where our levels will be slightly lower and thus make it difficult to lose during those periods? I say a big YES to that! 
