I feel like going back to sleep!

I do, I really do... going to sleep would be so nice right now, probably something to do with getting to bed at silly o'clock again last night, but as I actually slept till gone 8 this morning, I don't think it's all ordinary tiredness.
Anyway, moaning about it won't get anything done so I shall do as I generally do - get off the computer, which hasn't given me enough energy as I hoped it would, and go and get on with something.
Blood test in a week's time!

Recovery is quicker

I still don't feel I have quite enough thyroxine, and I need to make another blood test appointment and get my levels checked. Just over a month into this treatment, I'm having more 'down' days than 'up' days, but I haven't really worked out how much is normal tiredness as this is the height of June and my sleep pattern, such as it is, is always disrupted by the longest and shortest days.
I am still having sight problems and have had a few episodes of feeling 'wiped out' by activity, but I think I'm recovering more quickly from the exhaustion than I used to.
I'm beginning to wonder - anyone know any good thyroid jokes?

Three weeks in and a weigh-in

I reached the three-week point feeling, as I had for some days, that the thyroxine wasn't having any effect. In the last few days, though, I've been feeling slowly better. Perhaps the slump was because I was doing rather a lot - I had two four-hour train journeys on top of extra time at work, and spent several days in a too-hot-for-me house. It wasn't just ordinary tiredness, though, as my sight's been a significant problem over that time and still isn't quite as it should be.
I have, however, started to lose weight! It's been some time since simply cutting back had any appreciable effect, but I've lost a couple of pounds over the past few days through careful eating - a whole couple of pounds! Those with hypothyroid-induced weight gain may well appreciate how good this feels. This is on the same scale that I used to be able to lose weight, a couple of years or so ago, rather than the measly half pound I would have lost on the same regime over the past year.
In fact over the year I went from 9 stone 5lbs to 10 stone desppite my best efforts to the contrary.
I really want to get back to a suitable body-weight for my height and build, and am very much encouraged by this week's results.

Dreams

While I remember: the first week or so of thyroxine was one in which I had a couple of nasty dreams. It's not like me to remember dreams. I think they were the product of unresolved feelings after a medical scare that came to nothing, but I wonder whether the thyroxine has changed the depth at which I sleep, or at least portions of it?

... and more slump

I've discovered the Sunday afternoon sleep wasn't all there was to the slump.
Timeline:
Friday - day off, felt great
Saturday - long day's work, still feeling good
Sunday - extra long day's work, baking heat - fell asleep after work
Monday - slump
Tuesday - still slumped, fuzzy vision, hoarse voice (which, by the way, I haven't noticed for a week or so) but feeling rather better later in the day.
Wednesday - on a training course, the sitting/standing around is wearisome. Tired when I got in but not exhausted. Vision improved, voice somewhat better but not 100%.
So: I seem to be recovering slowly from this one. Was it the hard work and heat that set it off? Would it have happened anyway?
However, it's the second night running that I've been up and doing housework after work.

Slump

Well, after some great days and a fairly strenuous weekend - with two long shifts - I fell asleep in an armchair for a little whileon Sunday night and as today wore on I was very tired. This evening I had to keep going as I'd arranged to meet friends. By the end of the evening my voice was getting hoarse ( ut has been fine for some days) and I was having difficulty reading because my eyes weren't focussing.
So last week's down day wasn't a one-off. Was this brought on by the busy days before, or would it have happened anyway?
I did notice I'm not as tired as I sometimes have been, and suspect I am recovering a little more quickly.
Incidentally, when I had a chat with the doctor at the end of last week, she mentioned my thyroxine readings 'fluctuate wildly'. I don't know if this is just the way she expresses things or whether any doctor would say the same. What is undoubted is that they fluctuate.
Never mind, new tablet in the morning :-)