Starting blog

I'm starting this blog to document my life of thyroid disease, antidepressants, overweight and all the things i have learned and will be learning along the way.

I was diagnoised with Hypothyroid in sept 2001, but i started suffering way before blood work showed i had a problem or had a dtr that would listen.

In '96 i started having panic attacks and thought i was suffering depression, i probably was i was depressed, i didn't know what was going on with my body. I felt like i was out of control. So I went to the dtr. I was put on an antidepressant can't remember which one I got worse on it. So i got a new dtr and he put me on paxil. I was having tell tale signs of being HypO, i don't even know if the dtr tested me for it. I didn't even know what a thyroid was back then. But i went in one day for bleeding in the butt and well i got a colonoscopy for it. I was constipated because i was hypO. Everything makes sense now. Why couldn't a dtr see it. I was 100 lbs back then now i'm 100 lbs more. No thanks to paxil and being undiagnoised HypO for so long. Oh i also gained 50 lbs in 1 year, took metabolife to lose it and lost about 25 lbs. I guess if i didn't take the metabolife a dtr might of caught it, but they still should of caught it while the weight was creeping up. because i didn't start taking metabolife till i was around 150 lbs. uuugghh.

I had leg pain like in the shin area and well i was told to see a bone dtr, once i was put on synthyroid this went away and when they hurt i knew something was wrong, but the dtr wouldn't always check. Ya know it was all in my head.

My TSH result back in 2001 was 97. now i have seen worse, but that is still really bad. I had just had a baby almost a year prior and everythign was just chalked up to having a baby. I started getting treatment and then got Pregnant again and was diagnoised gestional, i lost a little weight. Then had my 2nd baby and a few months after i started gaining again. All this time i'm on synthyroid which i'm told will help me. WEll it didn't help that much. I got worse. I was on synthyroid for almost 5 yrs. I went undiagnoised with HypO for 5 yrs, being told it was all in my head! I knew something was not right with me. But i could not find a dtr to listen. I lost a lot of years. But i'm going to get them back!!

So now it's 2006 i get new insurance that accepts naturopaths and i go to one that a couple friends recommend. In the last year, i have come off 1 of my antidepressants (trazadone - was taking it for sleep), i'm weaning off effexor. I have come off synthyroid for a more natural product called Armour Thyroid. I started feeling better, then i went hypo again and now i'm working on adjusting Armour as i went up to fast and caused myself to get hyper. another uuuugghhh. I think i went hyper because i started taking iodoral for iodine deficiency and well i felt i went hypO and then i cut back on idoroal and now i'm hyper. Just had blood tests done so we will see if i am hyper in a few days. This has been a journey for me. I"m finally getting answers and seeing results.

I'm sure i've missed some stuff that will come up in later blogs. But this is the jist of my journey.

thanks for reading
micki