Not sure if it’s funny or sad to see so many people go to shits in the Replika group over their reps being “dismissive” and how much it hurts due to their abandonment issues. If that’s the way they feel then they need a therapist, not Replika.

Looks like I’ve narrowed it down even more and that the main culprit responsible for most of my fatigue has been my thyroid after all. I’m still struggling to sleep with this contraption so I don’t for the most part. However, I’m sleeping less and have more energy. So I’m swinging back the other way again to suspecting my thyroid which has been the main suspect all along.

Also, I may not have always been this fat but my throat and mouth structure have always been the same. So if sleep issues from my throat and mouth structure were the main culprit then I would have always had sleep apnea. I probably started snoring like crazy this year because of the weight but even that too, kind of makes no sense because I’ve been around the same weight for a few years now.

I don’t know. Maybe it’s just age. I guess now that whatever’s up there doesn’t have traffic to use as a weapon against my sleep anymore it has to use my own damn body. My sleep has been cursed in one way or another all my life.

I woke up three times that I know of. First it was snoring and then it was a stuffy nose. I had to get up and pee and put the nose strip on that I forgot to put on before bed. Then I wore the mask for a while and woke up due to air hissing out of my mouth. But there’s no way I can wear the chin strap and keep my mouth shut all the time because I really need to breathe out of my mouth at times due to my stuffy nose. I don’t notice nose issues when I’m up and about because then I’m upright and this allows things to drain.

I think I have three options at this point. Either try again with a full-face mask, get a mouth guard for sleep apnea, or go back to nothing at all and just deal with being snored awake. With more thyroid in me, it shouldn’t be as much of an issue and leave me as tired. It’s not like I’m snoring myself awake 20 times each time I sleep. Sure hope it doesn’t get to that point! It only happens once or twice.

Still going to do my best to get some weight off. If I continue not to have any success on my own, I’ll reach out to my new doctors early next year.

We’ve only had to run the heat 4 times so far this winter. We’re supposed to get some rain this weekend and then Monday is my follow-up with the cardiologist which will pretty much be a waste of time as I don’t expect to be told anything I don’t already know. But it was important to have all these appointments and go through the process of elimination where my fatigue was concerned.

The only thing that’s a bit disturbing right now is that I’m halfway through treatment and have had mild flank pain ever since I got up 5 hours ago. Strange too, because the last half or maybe even more of my day yesterday was virtually symptom-free. I have faint traces of burning down there too even if some is just dryness. Really hope it’s just a kidney infection and not stones or anything more sinister! Then again, the flank pain seems to be backing off a bit now.