The effects of no synthroid

I was asked by a coworker yesterday if I was starting to feel the effects of not being on my synthroid (I'm almost to the end of my second week being off the stuff. Keep in mind, this medicine is my thyroid!! They removed the entire thryoid in 2003, so mine is now a little blue pill and every time I do these tests, I am off that little blue pill for 4-6 weeks. Uck.) Anyway, I started thinking about it and I am starting to feel the effects! Here's my list of noticeable changes:

• An "I don't care attitude". Just a lack of energy/care, really. It's not that I feel depressed or anything, I just feel...blah.
• Sluggish
• Frequent headaches.
• Not sleeping as well (I'm not sure if that has anything to do with being off the meds, but my faint recollection tells me that it does start to affect the quality of sleep.)
• Memory lapses! It's crazy! I have the hardest time focusing on things and thoughts/directions to my conversations just fall out of my head, never to return. It's wild how I just can't remember what I'm trying to say! I'm supposed to take the final next week for my class. That could be a challenge!
• Loss of apetite. The bummer of it is that I haven't even started the "ucky" diet yet. You know, I was talking to my Weight Watchers leader last night about the low-iodine diet and it seems that each time I talk about the diet, it doesn't seem as bad as when I'm actually doing the diet. I wonder if that has to do with lack of thyroid (aka, little blue pill)? :)

And to think...this is only going to get better!!! :) (*Editor's Note: Read the last sentence with strong sarcasm.)