2025-01-23
My condition with Graves’ continues to be stable, to the point that my endocrinologist is at point to want to stop my biannual checkups and let my primary care physician perform the assessment, absent any issues as they are now.
I’m not against it but it creates a slight issue with my continuing my biannual blood work as the primary care physician relies on the endocrinologist to add that panel to the standard labs. For now, we agree to have the endocrinologist continue scheduling those thyroid tests and adding the next office visit to the calendar, Ah, the medical insurance dance is a joy.
Not much to say about my vitals other than I did gain a little weight from the previous visit (3 lbs). Not sure if that is from enjoying myself a little too much or from resuming some weight training.
Cholesterol and prostate levels also look good, although the cholesterol is slightly higher but still with a good ratio of HDL to LDL. Me thinks I enjoyth smoked meats and mead a bit too much!
The doctor proceeded to whip out his calculator and informs me that I’m just a tick over the ideal risk for heart attack at something like a 6.4% chance. I’ll take it!
As for my thyroid levels, my TSH is still showing me as being hyper but it’s almost 3x better than from the previous reading. T4 and T3 are still within the ‘normal’ range but both a tad bit on the higher side from before. More importantly, I am still asymptomatic and feeling great!
Cataract Followup:
After a long pause in my laser treatments following cataract surgery, I can report that the vision in my right eye is now at about 20/15 and in my left, around 20/25. In both eyes, I did lose my ability to read without glasses and am now about 20/40 for near vision. The left eye does have an anomaly (a fold in the retina) that made nailing down the final adjustment to the lens difficult, hence settling at 20/25.
I can’t complain because now I don’t need to wear glasses for sports although I am wearing protective goggles while playing pickleball. And having to wear glasses for reading and computer work is little different from when I had to where glasses glasses previously, just now for reading. Other than correcting my vision for sports, the treatment also seems to have eliminated nearly all of the ‘star’ effects when looking at lights at night, an artifact from my lasik surgery back in 2001. Booyah, I call that a win!
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