Re:etiology and the big picture

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Wow! I found this to be quite interesting, especially as it pertains to my own situation. I am adopted. Two years ago I received my non-ID info from the adopting agency. It turns out my bmom (birth mom) became pregnant and expected my bdad to marry her. She finds out he has a string of girlfriends and wants nothing to do with her anymore b/c of her pregnancy (me!). She becomes very stressed (this is 1953 after all) and turns to an agency for help. The social workers at the agency described her as a "lost soul" wandering; very sad and what I would described as stressed out. I have read that adrenal problems in the mother from severe stress (in 1953 being an unwed mother would, I think, cause extreme stress) can transfer to the child (me!) and the child can be born already having issues. I know I have had issues my entire childhood: weight gain on a normal diet that no one else in my family gained weight on (brothers are not blood relatives, both adopted also from

different parents). Bowel problems throughout childhood; inability to sleep normally. Severe allergic reactions (example: upon wearing anything with nylon my feet would break out in bleeding sores) to different things during childhood and adolescence. I believe I was undiagnosed hypoT as a very young child - even as a toddler I was very chunky and I was always being put on diets by my (overweight!) doctor. I was teased and tormented as a child for being overweight; also had terrible cravings for sweets and carbs - would come home from school and stuff myself on bread. I am just now starting to get a handle on the cravings after being on Iodoral and Isocort and Armour, but they are still a problem. I am desperately trying to correct my diet so that I can lose weight and be able to exercise as I begin to get well. This is a long process and although I am feeling better, I do have a ways to go. I am up to 3 grains on the Armour and for the first time am experiencing the

itching I have heard about - I just upped to three grain yesterday. I will tough it out - I just want to have more of a normal life instead of being tired all the time; my house is a cluttered mess and I am to exhausted most of the time to tackle it - it will have to wait until I am better. I just do the very basic things right now - laundry, scrub toilets, tub and sink now and then, do dishes. DH is also recovering from CFIDS (won't go there - he is now a raw foodist and things it is the cure for everything, lol!) so we have both been very ill and are both recovering. Like I said, I just want a normal life, and be a normal weight and be able to exercise and do normal activities without being exhausted by just doing laundry! I come home from work and collapse and so does he (his work is refinishing and/or installing wood flooring, which in itself is very physical and exhausting. We are on our way, but both have a long way to go. C.