Update on the whole eating/thyroid thing

[zafra]

So, about the last week of July I *finally* started actually feeling like I wasn't taking my meds! Fancy that. I never wanted to go beyond 30 days of not taking them since I was pretty sure that even if I could reduce my dependence over time and 'shore-up' my own thyroid, it has been 21 years since I was diagnosed w/ Hashimoto's Thyroiditis and

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[sabriel75]

Yay! ♥

[zafra]

:-)

[gateslacker]

I am glad you are feeling better and can notice the difference despite being hypothyroid.

And it makes sense that you don't have a basis for comparison. I certainly remember when I was diagnosed and how much different I felt once I started taking it. It was amazing. Then, I had a refresher later on when they wanted to do a reuptake scan for some nodules and I had to go off for three weeks (which was a total waste of time since there wasn't even enough there to even take up the radioactive iodine. )

After that I swore, never again.

(Unless, you know, the zombie apocalypse goes down and I can't get meds anymore)

[zafra]

If the zombie apocalypse goes down we'll be figuring out how to raise pigs and make our own version of natural thyroid! lol
I have thought about that while watching time-travel movies, actually. If I could even survive something like that given they wouldn't have the medical advances necessary. Thinky brain is too thinky, sometimes! :D