Hashimoto’s has a great way of bringing people together. Some can read that statement as sarcasm if they want. But it actually is true. I got a wonderful comment from the  Carey Family Website.  They do a cool segment called “Pay it Forward.” She is suffering from Hashimoto’s like most of us are and decided to do a Pay it forward for me! Here is the segment she wrote on Hypogirl, Dear Thyroid and I am the Face of Thyroid disease. That’s when we did video’s during thyroid awareness month. Such a great idea! I have gone back to the Carey Website to read up on the other Pay it Forwards because it helps remind me that we need to stand by each other and help when we can. Thanks Carey for sharing your knowledge of great resources! I love the website!

Hypogirl.

Don’t worry – no babies were hurt in the taking of that photo. My niece used to pull that chair on herself and giggle. Had to save a memory of it by snapping a picture. But, we’d always help her up. :-)

Ferritin – 27 ng/ML (Lab range is 10-291)

Even though this is quite low it is better than it’s ever been. So I am going to continue to try to get it to rise. I have added more beef into my diet and am thinking of getting an Iron Skillet to cook it on just to add more Iron to my diet.

Copper – 134 f ug/dL (lab range is 80-155)

I am ok on copper.

Zinc 80f ug/dL (lab range is 60-120)

I am on the low end of Zinc – but Doc gave me the ok. Still going to take the supplement to keep it rising.

Vitamin D 50f ng/mL (lab range is 30-80)

I am on the higher end of vitamin D. We are going to lower the dosage just a bit. But otherwise I am good with D.Last time my D was really low so I have improved at taking this supplement. Now I just need to up the rest. :-)

Pyrroles were in range at 7. Good there!

Now for the shocker!

TSH was 14.94 (Lab range .20-4.50)

This was a total surprise. I can’t remember what I was feeling in Jan. to have my TSH so high! I remember not taking my meds for a few days. That may be the problem – the nurse even made a comment that obviously I needed to support my thyroid! So true. In talking with my Dr. and true form to myself I often neglected to take my 2 dose of my meds throughout the day. Once I would remember it would be close to dinner and after dinner was way to late. I didn’t want to stay up all night. So we are now trying a time-release capsule instead of a twice a day pill. I hope this does the trick and keeps me on track. He also prescribed a liquid Magnesium for me in order so that I can workout. I had been feeling so pain during workouts that would make me want to quit. He felt that this would help. So – I have to take that twice a day. I have also be placed on an elimination diet. He feels I have a food allergy- and this is a good way to test it. So, this weekend was off -script for me in terms of food. I enjoyed myself a little bit in order to prepare for a long two weeks of eliminating foods from my diet. If anyone has any recipes for the elimination diet – throw em at me. I want to try them.

My Time-Release capsules came this weekend and Monday will be the first day of those. I will let you know what my experience is with them.

Thanks for being patient with me and posting this. I apologize it wasn’t sooner.

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend.

Hubby drove me to work today so my brother could look at my car. I am glad he did. There is only about $75.00 dollars worth of fixes and then I am off and running again.

BEEP BEEP!