SHARDS
"Cut and bleeding on the broken fragments of my memory"
A Journey into healing
Page 3 - A new prognosis.... Hashimoto Syndrome!
I can be strong now that I know what it is!

Great I thought! Now it has a name I can FIGHT it! I can be strong again - I can be objective - I can be unemiotional - I can NOT explode!
BULL!!!!!!!!! I was strong while I used boxes of Kleenex. I was strong while I sobbed on my husbands shoulder in despare. I was strong when I got into the car and couldn't remember where I was going to go. I was strong when I walked into a crowded room and the panic set in. I cried reading the news. I cried reading about the new name for a baby elephant! I cried reading SPAM!

Enough was enough!

I started to document for myself what I was feeling and keeping track of ME! If I didn't keep track of how "I" felt, no doctor in the world would keep track for me either!!! So leaning to help myself became a life necessity. If I could "see" the demon sneaking up on me I could defeat it and WIN!
So what did I start watching?
What Trips the "Triggers"?
Everything and nothing. Does that make any sense? Bet it sounds familiar to you though. Trigger mechanisms:
  1. Getting over tired
  2. Not eating correctly.
    This means protein at breakfast, a fair round lunch. NOT a burger guys and gals .. but a good balance of protein, vegies, a little starch. And Keep your water intake up!!!
  3. Temperature
    Yep, too warm and away I go. I suspect that is is because with other things loaded on top of the Hashimoto Syndrome, that the body termal regulator is throwing fits. So dress in layers :)
Wish that I could blame of the bitchyness off on it too .. but some of that I just have to claim. :) After all .. would I still be a woman if I didn't ?

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