How Do I Deal? – Clare

Life hasn’t been easy with only a teeny tiny bit of thyroid left. Life with thyroid disease is very challenging to manage, especially since I live in an area where there is no specialist in the field I can go to regularly (I currently have an internist looking after my thyroid needs). Getting the right balance of medicine to make sure my thyroid levels are normal has not been easy.

I can go from normal to hypothyroid in a matter of months. These days however, being hypothyroid is the norm. This means that my metabolism is a mess, I get tired easily and there has been a tendency for high cholesterol and blood sugar. My sleep cycle is annoying too. I can fall asleep early, wake up in the middle of the night and fail to get back to sleep until it’s almost time to get back up again. 

Then there’s the brain fog/senior moments. The occasional bouts of depression and recently, I’ve had to deal with bone loss, which has caused me to lose a couple of perfectly healthy teeth that apparently have not bone to hang onto anymore.

I want to be healthy, but I cannot afford to regularly travel far to see a specialist. I want to lose weight, but with my thyroid issues, I’ve had three months of dieting and workouts where I did not lose a pound of weight. It’s frustrating. I don’t know what to do anymore. 

I know that having my condition means it is chronic and I would have to deal with this the rest of my life. It’s hard to deal with and I do the best I can to lead a normal life because I don’t want people feeling sorry for me or having people think I want special treatment because of it.

How should I deal with it? I don’t know. I wish I did though. I follow my doctor and I know he’s doing the best he can but I’m still hypothyroid. I still struggle with my sugar and my cholesterol and I am now paranoid about losing all my teeth. I don’t want to go crazy about this but I can’t stop worrying about it.

Oh don’t worry about me. I’m fine. I try to be anyway. I do the best I can and hope for the best. That’s all I can do so might as well right ?

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