From the category archives:

Hypothyroidism

Looky What I GOT!

March 12, 2010

Yay! Yay! Finally!
Remember how I fired my doctor? Well, I went looking for Nature Thyroid to fill my prescription. Seriously, I hit every pharmacy in town. Nada. Nothing. Most had no idea that the drug even existed.
What I did find was a thyroid specialist – a DO who prescribes Nature Thyroid. Well, surely he’d know [...]

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Just Stop Eating, Beotch

September 20, 2009
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Stop eating, beotch is essentially the message I got when I presented information that I’d been diligently spending massive amounts of time gathering on hypo-thyroid treatment to my doctor.
Let me back up a bit here.  It was the information I’d been reading about Nature-Throid that really got me excited — crying [...]

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Pesticides, Fat Cells and Weight Loss

August 18, 2009

Did you know that your fat cells store certain kinds of toxins that you’ve consumed over your life time?
And that when you lose weight, those toxins are released and roam through your blood stream?  That those roaming toxins kill thyroid function? And actually promote weight re-gain?  Oh, that’s not all. To [...]

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How I Broke My Thyroid

August 11, 2009

This is going to be an extremely personal post. It’s something I loathe to talk about. My struggle the past ten years has been excruciating and I’ve kept the pain inside and private — I can’t even talk about it with my husband.
From heel spurs to backaches, weight issues obviously [...]

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