Is it thyroid related?

I have pissed and moaned aplenty about my bad back and my luck with pain relief and kratom. While I have had some success, I do keep hoping for better and a return to a normal human life. The newest doc thinks my problems which have spread to include my wrists, hands and feet are caused by a debatable thyroid decline. I submitted to a blood letting and got tests for antinuclear antibodies, rheumatoid factor, metabolic function, cell counts and thyroid stimulating hormone. Everything was normal. Geh. I'm glad and frustrated. My doc opined that 3.86 could be considered a high reading for thyroid stimulating hormone, and I am SO desperate for relief that I readily agreed to a once a day dose of 25mcg levothyroxine. I had to stop taking that stuff last week! The disturbing problem of hearing my heart pounding in my ears when I was supine manifested, and nothing else seemed to be improving. The distressing ear noises are now completely gone and no way am I taking any more of that stuff unless it is proven that my T3 and T4 levels are too low. I really want to be nice to this doc, but there is just no way that I can be a good little patient. I'm supposed to go back for another needle experience in June to see how the medication has improved things. I'm really just not up for that. I don't just hate needles, I totally irrationally abhor them being stuck into my veins and such. The only kind of needle stick I can handle is a stabbing for permanent art. Yeah, I know it makes no sense, but that is how I am. Meanwhile, the odd swellings around various joints and the pain continues. I don't think it is thyroid related. I think it is spondylitis related. I am taking a bit of flexeril this week to see if I get a good solid sleep. I have been prescribed it before, and did not think it worth the fuzzy next day, but I am at a desperate point in misery. I didn't get functional until 4 or so today, and I didn't care much either. I slept like a drugged zombie last night and it felt..goooood..sort of. I did still wake up in pain, but I sure got a longer stretch of unconsciousness in! Oddly, when I woke up in my usual pain, I was too uncoordinated to get up so I just stayed in bed awhile, shifting my positioning. I'm going for another round of unconscious zombieland tonight. It's a good thing I don't absolutely have to get up and function in the morning! One thing that I won't do after taking a nasty pill is stack any herbal remedies on top of it. A flexeril tonight means no kratom during the day tomorrow and possibly the day after. It is unknown how these substances may react with each other. I'd rather not die while my children still need me around if it can be prevented. I won't be taking the nasty pill every single night either. Two nights in a row is my limit. I don't belive in regular pill taking, and I have seen too many people going in and out of doctors offices with bags full of their assorted pills. I figure if I tell the doc about the ear thing, I'll just end up with a pill for it, rather than a cancellation of the causative agent. My daughter's friends grandmas all have 5 or 6 assorted pill regimens, and none of them seem to be improving their lives to any significant degree. Not me. I'm keeping my cholesterol high and my hormones however they are.