12-03-2012, 12:57 AM
I'm type B negative (I'm very special, y'all )
It's funny my reaction to being diagnosed was an overwhelming sense of relief. Most doctors tell you need a small dose of synthroid and then you can get "better," and you do, but only for a little bit and then you get worse again. Knowing that by keeping my thyroid from producing a hormone I can keep it safe and healthy was such a huge relief.
I tried gluten free, by the way. I did it for 2 months and then I introduced gluten again, just to see how my body would react and my body didn't care. I felt nothing new or different. So I keep very low gluten diet (pretty low carb) but I don't do gluten free anymore. I see it as do what you can and what will be will be. A lot of gluten free products have so much other crap to make imitation bread, pasta, cake, etc that you're better off eating gluten unless you're truly allergic.
I try to eat all organic, grass-fed meat, as little hormones as possible, lots of green. I TRY to be low on sugar, and it works, but sometimes I fall off the wagon. I'm going to have another test in a month. But from what I've gathered it's hereditary. It was first "discovered" in early 1900s, but it doesn't mean it didn't exist before. I mean testing for anti-bodies was no easy task in 1800s and before. Back than people were, fat or lethargic, or lazy, no one ascribed a medical reason for it. I was born in a different country, when I moved here it turned out I had a learning disability (there were no learning disabilities where I was from, I was just a poor reader and speller there). I think a similar analogy may apply.
It's funny my reaction to being diagnosed was an overwhelming sense of relief. Most doctors tell you need a small dose of synthroid and then you can get "better," and you do, but only for a little bit and then you get worse again. Knowing that by keeping my thyroid from producing a hormone I can keep it safe and healthy was such a huge relief.
I tried gluten free, by the way. I did it for 2 months and then I introduced gluten again, just to see how my body would react and my body didn't care. I felt nothing new or different. So I keep very low gluten diet (pretty low carb) but I don't do gluten free anymore. I see it as do what you can and what will be will be. A lot of gluten free products have so much other crap to make imitation bread, pasta, cake, etc that you're better off eating gluten unless you're truly allergic.
I try to eat all organic, grass-fed meat, as little hormones as possible, lots of green. I TRY to be low on sugar, and it works, but sometimes I fall off the wagon. I'm going to have another test in a month. But from what I've gathered it's hereditary. It was first "discovered" in early 1900s, but it doesn't mean it didn't exist before. I mean testing for anti-bodies was no easy task in 1800s and before. Back than people were, fat or lethargic, or lazy, no one ascribed a medical reason for it. I was born in a different country, when I moved here it turned out I had a learning disability (there were no learning disabilities where I was from, I was just a poor reader and speller there). I think a similar analogy may apply.
(12-03-2012, 12:44 AM)tibetan113 Wrote: I am so sorry to hear that!
It seems hashimoto's is more common than I thought.
I read it is imperative to have efa's in our diets and high amounts of vit D - if we are not sufficient in ("Why the heck do I still have hypothyroid symptoms" book).
I learned we are so different on a cellular functioning level compared to the average healthy person, its no freaking wonder we fail in nbe attempts.
I am doing a full body cleanse and diet rehab as a result of this. Our bodies are attacking itself for a reason. Time to find the exact culprit- could be wheat gluten, gmo's, corn,soy, sugars, nuts, my God the list goes on!
By the way, anyone here with Hashi's type O blood? Just curious or negative rhesus antigen?