I wanted to reach out to see if any of the people on this board have any good information regarding Hashimoto's Disease. My Fiancé has just been diagnosed with it and we are both scrambling to gather information about it. We are both fairly healthy eaters and make most of our meals at home. Neither of us really bother with fast food, and mostly stay away from processed foods. Getting the jabs wasn't even an option for either of us and honestly my fiancé really doesn't partake in Western medicine for the most part.
We did find a great nurse practitioner that is in line with the Frontline Doctors that has been very helpful in helping us determine what might be causing these ailments. I am looking for any information that is helpful towards diet and lifestyle changes that might curb or reverse the effects of this disease. My fiance has been very lethargic lately (which is not normal for her), felt very weak (muscular) and had achy joints. She has taken a couple of blood tests, which have pointed us towards Hashimoto's, but I do think that there are other tests that might make sense to assure we aren't dealing with a mis-diagnosis. My fiance has noticed that she feels better when she cuts dairy products out of her diet, and sadly has noticed worse symptoms when the stress of her job is greater.
Any information that anyone can offer would be greatly appreciated as well as thoughts and prayers.
I appreciate this community greatly and how there are so many people that are willing to offer up education that they have on subjects or links they have that are helpful to other people.
Honestly, I consider this group of people to be more of my family and friends than those individuals I have grown up with and who don't currently see the world through a critical perspective in both social and political views.
Thank you for taking the time to read my plea for help. She is my world and all that I ask for in life is for her to be healthy and happy.
Maybe this is going to sound like a platitude, but the appropriate amount of sleep is more important than anything else. Get 8 or even 10 hours of sleep while sick. If you're having trouble sleeping, don't focus on the stress, focus on how well the rest is going to help you. Keep the thought of how good you're going to feel when you wake up in your head and drift off.
Avoid sleeping pills but if you absolutely can't sleep, try your standard diphenhydramine sleeping pills like Unisom but not for a long period of time. Interestingly, those sleeping pills use the exact same drug as allergy medication like Benadryl and in the exact same dose and formulation. Why do the same pills that make us sleep also provoke an immunodepressive response? Hmm. Our brains do more to the chemistry and physical operations of our bodies while we are awake than we know. We are eons away from understanding what our consciousness does inside and outside our bodies in very real, physical ways.
Sleep more. Learn to focus on things that make you happy and think about them vividly with great focus and imagine doing them when you wake up and before you know it you will wake up 8 hours later feeling much better.
agree with your advice...interesting about unisom, the orig one, blue pill...have been taking it for years, nightly...i was traveling a lot for business, and found out that unisom was actually a "sleep-inducing anti-histamine" developed by nasa, for astronauts to be able to sleep while in space...for me, the anti-histamine part allows sleep through better breathing due to my allergies/sinus issues...never have had any issues taking it long-term...