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64 Pounds Gone!! Size 16 to 6! I Did It!!!!!!!
I can't believe I'm actually being able to post in this section!!! I wanted my weight loss journey to be a success, but after 7 years of health issues, I never really thought it was possible. Regardless of my pessimism, I fought on, and now I am so glad I did! 7 years ago, I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, and my…
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Caloric intake questions...
I'm currently doing a heavy lifting regimen working with a trainer 4 days a week for an 1 hour to 1.5 hour each session. Off days I usually grab at least 1 day of serious mountain bike riding where I burn 600+ calories, and then I tool around on my bicycle cruiser here and there. My question is - I'm kind of confused as to…
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Round 2 for this Thyroidectomy patient!
Hi all! So a year ago, my thyroid replacement meds were at a point where I was feeling great and losing weight. But after a few months, my levels went wonky again and knocked me on my butt. I now drive 5 hours away to see an integrative medicine doctor who is putting all my pieces back together again thankfully, I'm…
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Yayyy!! I'm back!
Starting back on MFP after a little hiatus! Last January, after much begging I was allowed to add Cytomel to my daily regime. It was absolutely life changing. As soon as I took my half pill, it was like the clouds parted, sunshine flooded down on me, and I had unicorns for shoes! :D Three months later, and I had lost 30…
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Trying something new!
Received my 6 week lab results after starting on 1.5 grains of Armour, off of a dose of 150mcg Synthroid + 25mcg Cytomel - and it didn't look too good. My FT4 was super low - under the normal range, but strange thing is that my TSH still hadn't budged and was still showing as super suppressed. It had actually dropped a…
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Here we go again...
Alot of you already know my story - in January Cytomel was added to my Synthroid regimine, and for the first time in a long time I was finally feeling human again. I was actually seeing results from all my hard work excercising and lost 38 pounds after ballooning to 217 because of my thyroidectomy and sub-par treatment…
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Armour vs NP Thyroid
So I've done some reading on various forums, and have read that NP Thyroid is closer to the formula Armour used to use before it started using a cellulose filler. These posts basically said that the cellulose filler binds to the thyroid, and most people now need to chew it up with a little sugar or honey in order to get…
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New doctor & finally the right labs!
So... last week I fired my Primary Care Manager of 5 years and yet another endocrinologist. Firing my PCM was pretty tough for me to do - she's been pretty much excellent to me since I've been her patient, and really takes her time with me. But after her telling me "maybe this is your new normal", I knew a change had to…
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Thyroid Eye Disease
I am one of those really unlucky people who have both Graves Disease & Hashimoto's. At the Beginning of my thyroid journey, I was extremely Hyper because of Graves, and then went the polar opposite into Hypo land because of Hashi's. I developed a goiter, and my eyes started acting up really bad. I would get some of the…
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Needing some good support!
Hi! :D My name is Jennifer, I'm a 32 year old USMC wife in North Carolina. My weight loss journey has been in progress now for 3 years, but I'm just finally getting started at losing weight. After the birth of my youngest child, I developed a thyroid disease which ended with me having a full thyroidectomy. Its taken 3…
