I'm swearing to myself that I'll sit down and write an actual post before I leave for Double Wars, but I've been running errands all morning, and I'm exhausted.
It looks like I have Hashimoto's Hypothyroidism (my antibodies are positive), but since my hormone levels are still within the normal range, they'll check on me in 6 months. Personally, I'd prefer to see if a little bit of hormone replacement will stop my hair falling out and my skin doing a creditable imitation of a crocodile, but I can wait for the next checkup to whine at them. It's not a big deal - 3-5% of the population has it, and it's perfectly manageable. It has to go untreated for an extremely long time to get to the "fall down/coma/death" stage.
Anyway, once I've got my act together, I have a fun post on starching standing ruffs with potato starch. I have pictures, even. I promise I'll post it before we leave on Thursday. After that, I'm getting my Swedish freak on, and embarking on the Attack Laurel World Tour (scheduled stops: Geneva, Switzerland, Copenhagen, Denmark - both just passing through - then: Tyringe, Sweden, and London England. It's a small-ish world tour, but I'm told I'm big in Europe).
It looks like I have Hashimoto's Hypothyroidism (my antibodies are positive), but since my hormone levels are still within the normal range, they'll check on me in 6 months. Personally, I'd prefer to see if a little bit of hormone replacement will stop my hair falling out and my skin doing a creditable imitation of a crocodile, but I can wait for the next checkup to whine at them. It's not a big deal - 3-5% of the population has it, and it's perfectly manageable. It has to go untreated for an extremely long time to get to the "fall down/coma/death" stage.
Anyway, once I've got my act together, I have a fun post on starching standing ruffs with potato starch. I have pictures, even. I promise I'll post it before we leave on Thursday. After that, I'm getting my Swedish freak on, and embarking on the Attack Laurel World Tour (scheduled stops: Geneva, Switzerland, Copenhagen, Denmark - both just passing through - then: Tyringe, Sweden, and London England. It's a small-ish world tour, but I'm told I'm big in Europe).
Comments
Something that may improve the hair/skin is selenium supplementation:
http://dearthyroid.org/hashimoto’s-thyroiditis-a-plug-for-selenium/
Also talk with your doctors about other vitamins/minerals you can use:
http://sarah-tomley.suite101.com/minerals-and-supplements-for-hashimotos-disease-a101718
And yes, low-grade thyroid hormone replacement, if they get you on that, will help.
Edited at 2012-05-07 05:36 pm (UTC)
yes even minor corrections will indeed fix most of those issues.
in the meantime i seem to recall that there are some OTC things that can nHELP until you get to real treatment... but i dont recall what they are.
since right now i have the google fu of a dead skunk, i leave it to you to start looking, but when in doubt adding flax seed and fish oil to your diet is always good (unless you are allergic, then its not)
Miss y'all.
As a fellow hypothyroid sufferer, I can't say how good it feels to have normal thyroid levels.