Just wondering

[At The End of My Rope]

I have been reading from several of you about weight gain....my doctor told me that the even with my Thyroid levels fine, my vit d was only 16 s/b 100 she said. and that my metabolism was extremely low..she started me on Vit D 1000 mg daily. I started them and i lost 4lbs nothing since. I am worried after my surgery I will gain even more, I had lost 42lbs over a ago and I have now put about 22lbs back on and doing the same thing....the surgeon said that is why it will be important to put me on medicine after surgery. We still do not know if partial/total not until he gets into the surgery. I am just worried I already worry about my weight and feel so fat.. I just do not understand all this stuff.

[DLA]

Boy, wish I could help ya there.  When first endo dummy saw me said right off the bat that I didn't have Graves' because I couldn't weigh that much with it.  HA!  Put on 80+ lbs with it!!  Put 40 of it on in a matter of weeks.  Thought was pretty funny when he had 2 more come in with severe weight gain and also Graves'.  He just thought he knew everything!  HAHA  

Through these 7+ years I have gained and lost probably some 200 lbs.  Feel bad gain like crazy, feel better, lose some, and so on and so on.....  In the past year gained about 30 lbs.  Am hoping now that I feel better will be able to lose some of it again.

My mom use to tell me that it at least wasn't my fault so I shouldn't feel bad about it, but it was embarrassing to me b/c not everyone knows that.  I was never a skinny person, but was always in shape and before this had lost down to a really good size for me, looked the best I ever had, I thought.  So it totally depressed me.  Always wished I had a shirt or button or something to wear that said "I DIDN'T DO THIS TO MYSELF! THYROID DID!" but now I think maybe something more along the lines of thyroid survivor.  Like those pink ribbons, maybe we could have our own.  Is purple taken?  If you've had thyca it could be purple and pink.  OK someone who knows how to do this go make a fortune on it!  Just send me a check every once in a while! =)

Try to remember all the positives about yourself!  How much you are loved!  What a good person you are!  How much you have overcome!  Hold your head up high, look at the world and forgot about what this disease has done to your body and remember how much stronger it has made you!  Focus on the positives!  When I started doing this it made such a difference in the way I look at myself.  Think now, go ahead and judge me if you want, but if you do you really don't know ME and all that I've been through.

God bless you,

Dac

[At The End of My Rope]

Thank you so true. We have this girl in our office that weighs maybe 115lbs and she is dieting makes me sick.....be glad you do not have health problems you know so lucky and she does not even know how lucky...

[DLA]

AMEN!

[rayneweather]

There actually is a ribbon for thyca and thyroid problems - it's kind of a light bluish color.  Someone posted about 2-3 weeks ago a website that sells all kind of illness - related t shirts, mugs, ribbons, etc. and there is a shirt that shows all the different colors of the ribbons and what they stand for.  Most of the colors mean several different ilnesses/types of cancer.  One shirt I liked was one that said "Dude, where's my thyroid?" and another one that said something like "I'm a thyroid patient, not a number!".

Rayne

[DLA]

If Rayne Weather is your name that is too cool.  I love that!

There goes my part of the profit. ;)  I never have original idea!  If anyone can tell me how to get to this website would appreciate it.  Think I need some of this.

Dac

[rayneweather]

I went through the old posts and I found the website; it was posted on 4/30 by Jenipeni.  It is www.cafepress.com/buy/thyroid/-/go_1.  And my first name really is Rayne (well, nickname anyway) and when I was looking for a unique screen name I thought "well, what goes with Rayne (pronounced rainy)??"  "Weather!!" was my thought so that's what I've become.  I actually created it for my xanga page and just transferred it over here because I liked it so much.  :-)

[DLA]

Thank you so much!

Like your smily! :-)  That's too cute.

[NJ Yogini]

Hi, as Dac says, and it's one of my regular sayings, concentrate on the positive things, and that's what you'll get more of.  Don't look at yoursef as 'fat'.  See the positives and know you're dealing with physical issues and YOU are not your body.  And...being positive by thinking positive attracts positive things into your life.  That's the SECRET!  Really!
I lost 40 lbs 3 1/2 years ago and kept most of it off until last year and have gained by 10-12 pounds.  That may be thryoid related, but for me, I think it's mostly lack of discipline on my part.  I LOVE anything chocolate......way too much!  It's such a mood enhancer for me.  Oh well,  at this point if that's what gets me thru the day....so be it.  I'm told that getting these thyroid meds balanced can take up to a year......*sigh*  where's the chocolate?
Best of luck to you on your thryoid journey.