Schedules Help
Try to keep a schedule. Your body responds better to a schedule. Remember to take your thyroid pill the same time every morning. Eat your meals, go to work, meditate - try to do it all on the same ti…
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Thyroid Removed
I found that Vitamin B-12 injections weekly, eating fish for breakfast and taking 10mg of Nortriptyline to help with sleeping is quite effective. Nortriptyline helps with getting to Stage 4 sleep (RE…
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Hashitmotos
Get lots of rest (8 hrs a night preferably), Vitamin D and take your multi-vitamins! I have always been thin, but gained about 25 pounds gradually and couldn't get any weight off no matter how much I…
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Living with Hashimoto's
Trying to get sufficient rest and take multi-vitamin, Vitamin D, and calcium/magnesium. Exercise makes a difference if I can force myself to do it! I find that stress in my life directly effects how …
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Living With Hashimoto's
I finally closed my business because I could not predict when severe fatigue would hit. I rest when I need to. I do gentle exercise. I take vitamins and supplements, eat cooked vegetables and raw sal…
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Exercise Is the Key!
I discovered that the thing that helped me the most was exercise. When I first began I could only ride my bicycle 3 miles (1.5 out and 1.5 back, but I kept at it and in 3 months I was riding 8 miles.…
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Living with Thyroid Disease
I'm still exhausted. I was on the OLD Armour Thyroid, which worked GREAT. The new Armour Thyroid is ineffective. I am taking 2 grains daily of Porcine Thyroid, made by a compounding pharmacy (www.wom…
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Living After Thyroid Cancer
Naps, plenty of cat naps! A power nap after work seems to make me feel better. After a hand full of doctors and specialists, none of them have been able to help me. After 20 years, I'm still tired of…
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Hypothyroidism
Over the years I personally have found that herbs and nutritionals for immune support as well as adrenal support have helped a great deal. This includes (for me) not putting foods in my mouth that I …
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Thyroid Problems All Of My Life Were Undiagnosed
Nothing to be done. The thyroid supplement helps but does not serve to address fatigue and subsequent depression. I read the thyroid websites and am somewhat gratified that there are others to confir…
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Eat Right For Your Type
Recently I heard about a book named "Eat Right For Your Type", which is based on the premise that food intolerances are affected by your blood type. For my blood type "O", the recommendation was to c…
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Things You CAN Do
For years I had cereal and coffee or toast and coffee. I always used skim milk and splenda in the coffee and just skim milk with cereal. Lately I have been having a small fruit salad, apple orange, p…
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Celiac and Hashimoto's
I have finally worked my way into the following hormone supplementation program, and feel much better. Problem is that an adrenal abnormality like this can take a couple years to resolve; for me, tha…
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It Does Get Better
I now take Armour Thyroid, 2 in the morning an hour before I have anything to eat or drink and one in the late afternoon. This really helps. I pace my day, getting the "heavy lifting" done in the mor…
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Hypothyroid To Hyperthyroid
Just trying to get thru my days. I am not taking any thyroid medications now but I do take Iodine on my own. There really isnt any dealing with it - I just live with it. I can take 4 or 5 hr naps at …
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