Update on the whole eating/thyroid thing
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 really, that just doesn't "go away". As gateslacker pointed-out to me, its about damage and how long it's been this way. Which is true.
So, I got my labs done August 1 and saw the doctor yesterday. Well, my TSH was through the friggin' roof! He made the comment he would expect to see that number in someone off their meds for a year. Lovely. Of course, this actually made me that much happier since even though I am having symptoms - I *still* feel much better, overall, than I did before! Yes, I need meds I can totally accept that. I started on them right away again yesterday! I'm just now looking forward to how awesome I ought to feel once they kick in. :) I honestly am not certain I have a comparison in my own life since I was 17 when diagnosed. I mean, yeah, I was active as hell in school with clubs, etc. but I still had homework problems, didn't do chores to save my life, etc. My mother wasn't exactly all about instilling discipline though, since her mom was so strict. She preferred a more passive-aggressive approach with sarcastic comments. But that's for the therapy couch. :) So perhaps I really do have a degree of ADHD that I will need to address, even with everything else being even. Hopefully though, with age and life experience I have garnered enough coping strategies and some self-discipline enough to get by without those meds. I'm not particularly stoked about taking stimulants the rest of my life. And if I can get my act more together, it will help me help Ana to avoid the same fate. Which is worth not eating pizza for the rest of my life, IMO.
So, I got my labs done August 1 and saw the doctor yesterday. Well, my TSH was through the friggin' roof! He made the comment he would expect to see that number in someone off their meds for a year. Lovely. Of course, this actually made me that much happier since even though I am having symptoms - I *still* feel much better, overall, than I did before! Yes, I need meds I can totally accept that. I started on them right away again yesterday! I'm just now looking forward to how awesome I ought to feel once they kick in. :) I honestly am not certain I have a comparison in my own life since I was 17 when diagnosed. I mean, yeah, I was active as hell in school with clubs, etc. but I still had homework problems, didn't do chores to save my life, etc. My mother wasn't exactly all about instilling discipline though, since her mom was so strict. She preferred a more passive-aggressive approach with sarcastic comments. But that's for the therapy couch. :) So perhaps I really do have a degree of ADHD that I will need to address, even with everything else being even. Hopefully though, with age and life experience I have garnered enough coping strategies and some self-discipline enough to get by without those meds. I'm not particularly stoked about taking stimulants the rest of my life. And if I can get my act more together, it will help me help Ana to avoid the same fate. Which is worth not eating pizza for the rest of my life, IMO.