To your health
Posted on August 26, 2008 - Filed Under Business |
Today we go sideways.
About a month ago, my doctor called with some news. ”Hashimoto has occured.”
“Is that a super power?” I asked.
The urgency in my doctor’s voice clearly demonstrated that this was not a casual illness. Medication had to be started right away. Medication for what? My thyroid is under attack. My body’s immune system wants to eject the thyroid like a cat ejects a hair ball.
Lord Google broke the bad news: medication for the rest of my life.
Merde.
Thus began more blood work. More sonograms.
No cure exists. No surgery can stop it. No amount of blood-letting or leeches can cure this ailment. It’s genetic.
I should have paid more heed to the obvious symptoms such as fatigue. A lot of energy for three or four hours and then in some narcoleptic fashion I’d pass out. In my car, at the library, in the barber chair.
Since starting the medication, I feel 10 years younger. Ton of energy.
I also adjusted my diet. More spinach, kelp and seaweed . . . oh don’t cringe. It just means I’ll have to eat more sushi. My cooking salt, which revealed zero iodine, has been swapped out with real salt with real iodine. I didn’t know this before but during the 19th century, all kinds of kids were born with mental problems due to lack of iodine in their diet. That’s why it was originally added to salt.
It looks like the warranty on my body has expired. I own it now. Can’t take it back.
But I will tell you this: I cannot describe how good it feels to be “me” once again.
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Sorry to hear that. I, my brother, and my mother all have hypothyroidism. Was diagnosed a few years ago. Just take the thyroxine pills. I don’t think that taking more iodine in the diet helps. The problem is that the body can’t use it to synthesize thyroid and so you need to take replacement hormones.
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@moom: It surprised me just how many people suffer from this condition. The research shows the biggest cause is lack of iodine in the diet. In my case, no amount of iodine will help.