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This is excellent! I noticed that you don’t have a “reblog” button. I would like to share this on my blog.
I have been fighting with Hashimoto’s since my late 20’s and didn’t know it until a few years ago. I went thought almost everything you’ve described. I’m 68. Yes, you read that right: It took 40 years to get a diagnosis. How did that happen? Over the years, I stopped believing the “all in your head” diagnosis by doctors who later apologized when they found out it wasn’t in my head.
Anyone with invisible health-related challenges HAS to be proactive. Over the years, I have been quite insistent and have done my own research.
My son has asthma. My daughter has autoimmune problems, and what I read about Hashimoto’s fit some of my symptoms, so I insisted on being tested for antibodies. My endocrinologist didn’t think it was necessary but finally did so (I really like him — he explains things well and doesn’t think the word doctor is spelled g.o.d.) The look of shock on his face!. Normal is 1:40 – 60 and I was 1:110 or something like that. “I would not have believed it” were the words he used to describe the results. Apparently, when you’re in your 60’s and can sit on what’s left of your hair, that’s not normal for someone who has been hypothyroid for so long.
My sister and my daughter are hypothyroid. Both are overweight. I have gastroparesis added into the mix, so I’m underweight. There are several things I do so that I can still work — and write . Years ago, I insisted on Armour Thyroid and pay for it myself (since Medicare will not pay for it). I don’t waiver from what works. For several years, this worked quite well. Generic thyroid supplements never worked for me and neither did the synthetic thyroid supplements. I’ve often thought about going back to the old ways — where you divice out a pork thyroid and take your temp every morning to see if you need more or less thyroid meds that day. 🙂
If things would stay the same, I could have kept both the hashimoto’s and gastroparesis in check. But Armour Thyroid changed something in their medications recently. All I can say is that at one time there was a slight organ-meat taste to their pills. Now, there’s not. When that change occurred, it sent me into a gastroparesis tailspin. That’s all it takes — just one little change.
As usual, I’ll figure out a way to recover, it just takes a bit of perseverence. I’ll never be a runner, but I try to walk at least 1/2 mile 3x per week. I know my energy levels and how to make the best use of them. I take B12, trace minerals, calcium at night, thyroids meds in the morning, turmeric and vitamin D3 among other supplements. I wear dark glasses to minimize migraine and eye pain (light sensitivity) and do everything I can to spit in the face of Hashimoto’s. 🙂
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