Date:   10/22/2009 2:18:56 AM ( 15 y ago)
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 Hv: Check your basal body temperature. This is very accurate, especially combined with symptoms.

unfortunately i can't attest to the complete accuracy. i only had a digital thermometer (max temp 37 degrees) and apparently it beeps when it reaches the correct temp but i'm deaf so i can't hear it ;) so for the last few days, i just left it under my arm until it switched itself off.

Oh, you would do it in metric so I have to calculate the numbers.

Ok, got it. Based on the readings it does look like you are probably borderline hypothyroid. Possibly hypothyroid since the thermometer is only rated to 37C.

Hv: Puffy as in water retention?

puffy as in ridiculous water retention - or maybe i'm even just metabolising air. it is kinda like non-pitting edema (no indentation) but it is everywhere. and it fluctuates. for example, 2 years ago it took 3 months to get my blood drawn because my arms were so puffy - they ended up having to take it from my foot. every day i have a different level of puffiness - sometimes my fingers are so swollen i can't write, othertimes my feet are so swollen i can't wear shoes, and somedays i just don't have big enough underwear to even get dressed. and i have clothing in 3 different sizes. there is no apparent correlation (food, water, stress etc), it's just kinda random.

(i guess i could just buy clothes in stretchy, sweaty man-made fibres with elasticated waistbands and just wear hush puppies. but i think my brain would melt.)

before i did my big 36-day water fast to-completion, my puffiness was greatly exacerbated by any movement. if i went swimming, i either couldn't get my flippers off afterwards - or my breasts would puff up so much they would come out of my top.

Just tell the kiddies that these are your floatation devices.

it was much, much worse before that fast but it is still really bad.

and, stands to reason, the puffier i am, the less energy i have. when i reach maximum stretch, i feel nauseous and i can hardly move.

The water retention could put a strain on the heart as well, which could also explain part of the fatigue.

Hv: The Jarrow formula looks the best.

thanks, i'll get it then

Hv: (cordyceps) Mmmmm.......caterpillar fungus

sorry, what? i didn't read that! i thought it was a mushroom? seriously??

Yes, serious. Nobody told you that the real stuff is grown on caterpillar bodies?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caterpillar_fungus

"Caterpillar fungus — The are over 680 documented varieties of Cordyceps mushrooms. There are over 680 documented varieties of cordyceps, and one of the most well known varieties of these is Cordyceps sinensis. The Latin etymology describes cord as "club", ceps as "head", and sinensis as "from China". The mushroom is known in Tibetan as yartsa gunbu or yatsa gunbu.

Caterpillar fungi are the result of a parasitic relationship between the fungus Cordyceps and the larva of the ghost moth (Thitarodes), several species of which live on the Tibetan Plateau (Tibet, Qinghai, West-Sichuan, SW-Gansu & NW Yunnan, all in China, and the Himalayas India, Nepal, Bhutan). The fungus germinates in living organisms (in some cases the larvae), kills and mummifies the insect, and then the cordyceps grows from the body of the insect. It is known in the West as a medicinal mushroom and its use has a long history in Traditional Chinese medicine as well as Traditional Tibetan medicine.^[1]"

if you can help me fix my puffiness, i vow to name my first born after you (luckily your real name isn't hveragerthi otherwise my child would probably be ten before it could reliably spell its own name) 

Are you really sure the world could handle a Hveragerthi Minnie Me?

Actually it could be worse. I could have used the name of another town in Iceland, Kirkjubaejarklaustur. The name is bigger than the town.

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