Bothersome

It's a lovely hot day today and I'm just sitting down for a rest after a fairly active six hours: a car boot sale (it's BankHoliday), quick visit to the garden centre (Ditto regarding BH), short drive out to drop my daughter at someone's house and a session of gardening.
The gardening raised the 'bothersome' bit as per title. As far as I know it's nothing to do with my thyroid, but arthritic feet deciding to be arthriticy.
Energy levels are coming back up so I shall probably go and do some gardening that doesn't use my ankles much.
I'm nearly a week into the thyroxine now. I understand it hangs around for at least seven days, which is why it's not a crisis if the odd dose gets missed, and I think that must mean I've not yet built up to the amount I will normally be carrying around and therefore can't really judge how it's doing. I'm hoping to get a bit more energy yet: whether it's possible and whether the doctor might think I need a higher dose, I don't know. My levels weren't drasticly low to begin with (something like 5 whastever-it-ises on the doctor's test and 6.6 on another blood sample I had done for something else).
I know people say the maintenance dose is often a bit lower than people would like, but any increase has to be better than not being treated.