"We were all cut and bleeding - until we learned to listen." Living with the aftermath of Thyroid disease
"We can't just ... "GET OVER IT" .. but we can get better!"

Why this? Why Here? Oh I hope that this becomes clear. Woman of the world, you have found your way here and that means you have been searching for answers to a puzzel that you see before you that has more missing pieces than not. When I was first diagnosed, the only information that I could find was a sketchy 2 line definition of Hashimonto Syndrome! ONE! By sharing my own story I hope to give you both knowledge and hope that what you fight now is not a "terminal" disease and that life can again be fun!

This is also a gift to those who love us. Those who struggle each day to find out what is WRONG with the one they love .. mom, wife, lover ..... enemy. This odyssey into the often pain filled abyss has been shared with us by those we love. May their insites here give you hope as well.

Does this sound familiar?

• I'm so deep in depression - it's led me to desperation
• I feel a Primal, explosive rage - when I know I shouldn't!
• I'm NOT whining - YOU are not listening!
• If I don't open my mouth, I can't scream at anyone (till I explode that is)
• It's MY space! GET OUT!! RUN!! NOW!!!
• Get me out of this croud -- NOW. and you run for the exit!
• How do I explain this crazy stuff to my (doctor, husband, friend, family) when "I" don't understand it?
• My family walks on egg shells around me
• If I yell at him again we'll be divorced/seperated etc.
• I'm hot, I'm cold, I'm hot ....
• I love you but .. STAY AWAY FROM ME!
• Huh .. I used to know that? What happened to my memory?
• Cotton Candy has more substance than my memory.
• I Can't concentrate any more -- even on simple things like ..um.. um..
• Road Rage on Synthroid: Driving Ms. Dizzy
• If death isn't an option, why am I behind the wheel?
• When did THIS become my body??!!

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Hashimoto Syndrome:

Hypo-active (under-active) Thyroid is the condition they told us we had. Okay .. so that means what?

Often, the onset of thyroid problems have no clear defining point as with most diseases. The thyroid regulates and controls many bodily systems. Like Memory - metabolism - mood .. things sounding familiar here??????

Hashimoto Syndrom strikes 1 in every 10,000 women. There are 2 key factors to who will have to deal with this problem in their lifetime.

1. Women
2. Women who have a family history of thyroid problems.

Not good odds huh.

Now - why is this page here? In May of 2000, I was diagnosed with Hypo-Thyroidism. Not quite that simple really. In the spring of 1999 I began to notice that I was fighting my weight more .. having to keep very busy to not feel "grouchy" .. and hot flashes that could have fried fish in a nano-second!
Hot flashes? The big "M"? Now? Lets find out .. so into the doc for blood tests. Guess what.. no big "M". Okay .. so why did that throw me into a tail spin of mental anguish? Why did I cry all the way home that it was not the "change"? That would have given me a reason! I'd have had something I could point to and say -- "This is why I'm so flaked out .. so I'm okay".

"Lets do some blood workups though and see if anything else shows up".

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