Some days are better than others...
Today I feel like a truck has run over my neck.
That's really exactly what it feels like when you have thyroid disease and you're in what I call the "Riding the Hormone Highway" phase. Because my body cannot produce the correct amount of thyroid hormones anymore (hey, can I help it if even my thyroid gland is yummy?) I supplement with synthetic hormones. The problem with this theory is that the human body is a finely-tuned machine, able to release and regulate the flow of hormones as needed. The pituitary gland looks around, makes a decision, and tells the thyroid gland what to do.
When you're only supplementing the same dose every day, you're bound to be out of whack from time to time (something I can be *quite rightly* accused of), and windpipe constriction, tightness, fogginess, and low blood pressure all result. That's me today.
I cannot concentrate enough to put together a proper posting today because of this... forgetting words as I write them leads to a pretty sloppy post so I'll make this short but sweet.
So here is my moment to tell all 30-something women (and men!) out there to get their thyroid function checked at their next doctor exam. It's a simple TSH blood test (even me, hating needles as I do, can handle it). It may save you years of trying to figure out what the hell is wrong with you. I have thyroid auto-immune disease, yours may be less serious, but most women will have some thyroid-related problem in their lifetimes, so why suffer?
You can thank me later.
Katja Minx
www.katja-minx.com
That's really exactly what it feels like when you have thyroid disease and you're in what I call the "Riding the Hormone Highway" phase. Because my body cannot produce the correct amount of thyroid hormones anymore (hey, can I help it if even my thyroid gland is yummy?) I supplement with synthetic hormones. The problem with this theory is that the human body is a finely-tuned machine, able to release and regulate the flow of hormones as needed. The pituitary gland looks around, makes a decision, and tells the thyroid gland what to do.
When you're only supplementing the same dose every day, you're bound to be out of whack from time to time (something I can be *quite rightly* accused of), and windpipe constriction, tightness, fogginess, and low blood pressure all result. That's me today.
I cannot concentrate enough to put together a proper posting today because of this... forgetting words as I write them leads to a pretty sloppy post so I'll make this short but sweet.
So here is my moment to tell all 30-something women (and men!) out there to get their thyroid function checked at their next doctor exam. It's a simple TSH blood test (even me, hating needles as I do, can handle it). It may save you years of trying to figure out what the hell is wrong with you. I have thyroid auto-immune disease, yours may be less serious, but most women will have some thyroid-related problem in their lifetimes, so why suffer?
You can thank me later.
Katja Minx
www.katja-minx.com
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