Friday, December 14, 2007

A diagnosis within a diagnosis...

I have a bit of time today and thought I would go over my symptoms list again from July and see what may have changed since then. Within just the short amount of time I've been doing the oil pulling (or swishing), I have also seen a couple more symptoms go...enough for my doctor to be able to finally see the current diagnosis and treat much of the remaining symptoms and get me healthy enough to finish the dental revision.

This is the list from July:
-frequent irritability (feels like finger nails across a chalkboard x3)
-sensory overload (''feel'' words/sounds/sensitive to touch)
-occasional feeling of suffocation/chest soreness
-vision disturbances (wobbly-like looking in a fish bowl)
-dizzy spells(vertigo?)
-chronic fatigue
-frequent anxiousness
-frequent chills/cold
-fatigue, tire easily
-neck sensitivity
-occasional indigestion
-occasional nausea
-poor memory
-brain fog
-inability to concentrate
-occasional palpitations
-lack of confidence
-don’t like to be alone
-mood swings
-headaches
-indecision
-unpredictable mensus/pms
-motion sickness
-skin eruptions
-bad breath
-occasional extreme thirst, dry throat
-zinc deficiency
-anemia

This is the list now:
-severe head and neck pain/achiness
-unexplained weight gain
-muscle aches/pain
-vision disturbances (off-balance feeling)
-dizzy spells(vertigo?)
-chronic fatigue
-hair loss
-occasional irritability (feels like finger nails across a chalkboard x3)
-occasional sensory overload (''feel'' words/sounds/sensitive to touch)
-frequent chills/cold (body temp below normal)
-neck sensitivity
-occasional indigestion
-occasional nausea
-poor memory
-brain fog/inability to concentrate
-mood swings
-motion sickness
-skin eruptions
-bad breath
-occasional extreme thirst, dry throat
-zinc deficiency
-anemia

For many of you who suffer with hypothyroidism, you may notice quite a few of my "new" symptoms as some of your own. My doctor has diagnosed me with hypothyroidism and has started treating me with nutritional foods to aggressively get my thyroid working properly again. There is a way to do it naturally, and since I have been having so many issues with reacting to medications, we chose to go this route. He has me taking kelp, miso, and 2 herbal foods called sunrise and electrosport. He said that within 2-3 months my thyroid should stabilize.

I have not discussed yet how mercury plays a role in screwing up the thyroid, and I just recently found this great article on it. http://tuberose.com/Thyroid.html
This article also mentions fluoride and how that has caused hypothyroidism as well. It's a very interesting read. If you want to know more besides that article, just google "thyroid mercury".

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