Take control of your life.
Take control of your desisions and dont be fobbed off by inadequate Doctors.
Demand answers and dont leave until you get them.
Research, research, research until your eyes are hanging out of your head.
Journal everything.....
Thyroid issues do give you another condition but to your advantage....
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(wonder if this posting will be deleted lol)
Im with dani on that one!
When I am not feeling well, I am as ill as a hibernating bear disturbed in the winter.
Neither,
I am the type that would spill it reaching for it to look and see. :)).
I want so bad to see the glass half full but I can't and don't think I ever will. Hashimoto's has destroyed my life!
Depending on my bad day I look at it as full of rocks and unable to drink it. Other days I think it is full of arsenic and out to kill me, but other days I see it as something someone left lying around and I have to deal with it.
So being full of it, (so to speak! LOL!) is not always a positive!
LOVE the pic! Will send hope4 a note to say thanks for sharing!
Being very honest about this - I couldn't remember the last time my glass had anything in it but after recently joining this site and reading everyone's comments I actually think it might just be starting to fill up. I have been hypo since age 15yrs (now 38) but the last 2 yrs I have been very symptomatic and not well at all, I have felt very negative and lost . It's now time to get to grips with my symptoms and make my Dr treat the person not the disease. I had no idea that there were so many alternative options for treatment - I am now on 200mcg of levythy and only ever have my TSH monitored. Time for change.
Thanks for the positive outlook! - Love the pic !
On my really bad days, I'm looking for signs of moisture at the bottom of the glass.
Most days, okay most have been pretty bad lately, so a little above empty. Like
maybe a quarter full? But that's better than no glass at all, right? I am grateful at
the end of each day that my sons are healthy and safe, and that I have made
it through. Maybe I slept through a lot of it, but, at least I'm here to complain :)
When Im feeling very bad, I view the glass as FULLY EMPTY!!! Its when Im at my lowest and just feel like giving up totally....
A great example is my last visit to my GP, he made me feel terrible, like I was wasting his precious time.. I came home in tears, and was hopping off the walls! Really thought about ALL my options that day!.....
Thats when the glass is totally empty! $ucks!
Prior to RAI, my glass was EMPTY.
Now it is 3/4 full :)
Staying positive (and I know its so hard for some) is half the battle won.
get rid of all negativity....friends included in your life.
You dont need others to drag you down as you are going through enough without more garbage.
'Freeloaders' tend to suck the energy out of you...get rid of them.
Concentrate on YOU and only YOU.
Sometimes I am very positive and the glass is half full and filling......other times when this disease has worn me down the glass sometimes is half empty and I am desperate to find a big jug to fill it.
Most of the time I am a very positive person.....but alas I am human and Mr thyroid and Mr Hashi knock really hard at my door at times. I just keep trying to focus on the fact that eventually the antibodies will complete their work and my body can then focus on healing completely.