I think this story is one everyone should hear. Not just the females going through Thyroid issues, but everyone because this story can relate in so many different ways. I am not a doctor I am just telling my story, your story is different, but I hope you can walk away after reading this with some insight.
I’m not too sure where it started so I will start from here. I was on birth control since about 15/16 years old due to mood swings and well back then (I am now 35) They seem to feed birth control to our generation to band aid what’s going on. Truthfully, I’m sure if looked into we could have gone a more natural hormone balancing route, but hey it is what it is! We didnt know better and didnt know to research or even ask a second opinion. So, years go by, and I get married to the love of my freaking life and we decide to have a baby. I go off birth control and we start trying to conceive and it took almost a year. We had a beautiful baby girl. Being young and not wanting another baby straight away, I went on progesterone birth control almost right after while breastfeeding. Trust me I believe this all links up but I’m also not saying any of these are bad, just my story. We decide to add to our family about two years later and get pregnant pretty fast. That resulted in a miscarriage. That was a very hard time emotionally, physically and mentally and if you know how that feels, I love you and I feel for you. Pretty fast after that I get pregnant with another baby girl!!! After giving birthday I decided to get into a more natural way of living. Also, no more birth control and I’m happy to announce 8 years later of knowing and listening to my body I still only have two kids, wink wink. Less toxins. Less poisons. If you haven’t already, please go down that rabbit hole. I’m here for you and will probably write more about this. ASK AWAY!! Mine started with young living and diving deep into the oils. here is my link if you are curious https://www.youngliving.com/us/en/referral/3637492
(I do get compensated if you buy through the link, you absolutely can buy wherever and from whoever just make sure it’s a good brand, once again this is my story and what I used)
I realized that I felt so amazing while pregnant and totally beat down when not. Just tired, crabby, struggling. Later finding out because we produce more thyroid hormone while growing people LOL. I chalked it up to my husband crazy schedule, two babies under 3, two dogs and a pretty big house. As I eliminated my home of toxins, we all started to feel much better, less headaches, etc. so who knows maybe it was that. I felt better but still something was off. Fast forward a year or so after I go to an essential oils party where they had this small thing we hold in our hands that scans our meridian and energy flow. It called a Zyto scanner. It’s also used for many things I’m sure but we used it to see what oils our body needed and why. Pretty cool! Mine came back with an oil called Lady Sclareol. A friend there at the time asked if I was fatigued and having issues with hormones at the time. I told her yeah and she told me to get my thyroid checked. She does not even understand how she helped me and changed my life in that second on that day. People always talk about how someone said or did one small thing that shifted their lives forever…. well, this was mine. I go to my doctor I had at the time, which was one of the best doctors around, that meant he was busy and trying to get through patients. Sadly, that counteracted his amazing skills. He checked my thyroid, said it was barely low and gave me the smallest does of Synthroid.
I started to take it and felt like I was alive again. I felt amazing and happy and not in pain, gosh the things I had because of hypothyroidism was insane and my levels weren’t even as low as others are! I started to feel like I was teetering between great and then hit with low again. I went back for a checkup to tell him what I was feeling like. He said it is because I’m a new mom and not eating healthy gained a little weight and was feeling it. I cried. I was only about 20lbs from prebaby weight, and I knew it wasn’t that. I absolutely cried when he said that, and this was telling me to not trust myself and ignore it. Well, if you know me, I don’t just ever settle for what one person tells me when I know it to be wrong especially when it comes to my body. I found another doctor that leaned towards holistic. He ran my tests and said my doctor only ran one test to check and my other levels needed balanced along with some vitamin that I was deficient in. He also suggested I try a more natural thyroid med, pig’s thyroid. WOW did my life change. Everything was fixed. My weight was stabilizing, my moods, my tiredness, my muscle pains, my everything. I want to add that yes, I indeed needed a higher dose than what I was on. This doctor was a gift from heaven and while he checked my levels, he looked me in the eyes and asked how I felt, if I felt I needed to up the meds or go down a bit. With his help we got to a level where I was comfortable.
So, I finally had my doctor that I loved and listened to me, balanced levels and my vitamins. Then he retires, unexpectantly and fast. I cried for a bit then was on a mission to go to as many doctors until I found one that I like, it’s your life you interview them! I was afraid I wouldn’t find a doctor who would keep me on my meds and not fight me to be on whatever they are pitched to by a pharmaceutical rep. I remembered a friend who also was into oils had referred a doctor to me a while back while I still was seeing my other doctor. I reached out to her for his name and I’m here today to tell you that there are doctors out there that trust that you know about your body. He is now my current doctor and not only is he amazing and respects what is already working for me, he also is into energy meridians, herbs and eastern medicine. I’m all for that since I’m pretty spiritual anyways and I have a long history in Shaolin kung fu and have done qigong along with it.
I’m telling you my story of how to never give up if you know in your heart something is off, needs to be fixed, or needs change no matter what everyone is telling you. Why have a lower quality of life just because one, two or seventy-five people tell you to deal with something that doesn’t sit right with you?