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.
Your story sounds similar to my wife’s. She’s had hashimotos for about 10 years now and has it under control for the most part. She takes medication to keep her tsh levels on track and it took a lot of work to get her to there because most drs seem to be incompetent when it comes to the thyroid and would continually provide a dosage way too high or too low for what my wife needs.
The lethargy and achy symptoms are exactly how my wife felt until she got her tsh levels balanced. She also got light headed from time to time with a fast heart rate. Those symptoms are something to look out for as in our case it means she needed to adjust her dosage.
The most important thing is to listen to her body. Medication and other changes take a while to take effect. So as she finds how to respond to her bodies needs she’s probably going to go through a phase lethargy and crappy feelings.
Also, fertility can be impacted by hashimotos. Plenty of women with the disease have children, they may just need to work a bit more hard than some others to conceive.
If your wife gets diagnosed it’ll be ok, as long as she has access to her medication she’ll live a healthy and happy life. Maybe shes lucky and just needs a diet change. My advice is that if she gets diagnosed, discuss the timing of children. You may want to start earlier than you might otherwise have planned as it took my wife and I more few years more to conceive than we expected because of this disease.
Thank you for your input! Definitely listening to her body at this point. As for children, we have a teenager in the house. I should be asking for advice on that front really,... ha!