Re: Depo-Provera/Hyperthyroid List

[Guest guest]

Donna,

Wow! You're telling me what I had hoped to hear. I crave chocolate so much,

and I'm strictly forbidden to eat it because of it's caffeine content. Anything

that could make me feel better AND stop craving chocolate would have to be a

miracle drug. I'll check out the site and talk to you about ordering it.

I've had debilitating migraines since I was six. As a kid, I'd have to stay

home from school at least once/week because the headaches were incredibly

painful and made me so sick to my stomach. I have the typical migraine aura as

well. By body goes numb, beginning with my face and tongue. Then my vision

gets spotty & tunneled and I know I'm in for a wild night. I can't even speak

when this happens--my speech is garbled much like that of a stroke victim. I'd

be so grateful if the supplements you recommended alleviated my headaches.

Thanks so much for the info. I'm thrilled by the thought of finally getting rid

of these migraines!

Tori

[Guest guest]

Hi Tori,

I didn't mean to scare you...there is just so much to learn about

graves and how to do things with baby steps to have successes last. I

had to learn it the hard way...same as I did when I first started

using Echinchea <sp?>...I *thought* it would be a *good* thing for me,

man was I wrong...then adding all the supplements, even though it was

just what was recommended in group but at one time...it caused so many

problems for me. I just want new people to be aware that we all need

patience to heal, we didn't get sick overnight, and we won't heal

overnight and we need to learn before we heal. A real bugger of a

thing to have isn't it!

If you do a search in the archives on soy, supplements, diet you will

find so many posts and so many experiences, both postive and negative

ones that we have shared. When you do use search, you may only get

4/5 hits on the first page, use the next and previous buttons to get

more.

Take care,

Jody

> Jody,

>

> You're making me scared of my highly anticipated miracle drug!

Donna, I'm going to take Jody's advice and ask my doctor. I'm fairly

sure he won't like the idea. He think soy milk is the worst thing

ever created.

> Tori

[Guest guest]

Hi Donna,

>>> I'm sure that's why I kept getting sicker when I was trying to

balance all the supplements from the health food store on my own. I'm

certainly not 'pharmacist material!' But with this nutrition, my

nodule has shrunk from about the size of a walnut in the shell to more

the size of a nickel. And I don't have the symptoms that I used to

have. Something positive is definitely happening here.<<<

Are your being monitored by a doctor or naturopath with what your

taking? As irrate as I can get sometimes over the treatment doctors

give far to many of us, there are good ones out there who do listen,

and I am fortunate enough to have found one...my point here before I

get totally lost in my own thoughts is for new people just diagnosed

with graves or just beginning their research with this disease do need

to be monitored whether with allopathic or homeopathic, monitoring and

working together is a must. If we went off on our own, doing our own

thing with supplements or herbal *junk* like Herbal Life or Metabolife

we could very well end up in very bad condition. Graves untreated can

be deadly and the chances of this are most often with new people who

are extremely hyper. They truly must watch what they put into their

bodies.

The natural approach fascinates me so very much, and I wish I wasn't

so niave when diagnosed and had my thyroid ablated. B's story of

using homeopathy her life style changes is amazing...and she also used

caution. I know she has some wonderful posts in the archives of her

*team* of doctors in both fields. For every one new to this group,

reading 's journey is inspiring!

I have watched Dawn Rose and Pam L. begin their journeys with

bugleweed and Lemon Balm after much research and am so impressed by

their remissions. Buck is another one who took an alternative

approach and is having success with it...and Pam B's experience with

Bastyr is riveting to me. The thing all of these people have in

common besides there successes in becoming so much more healthier is

their research and their doctors or naturopaths monitoring them

through the whole thing.

For me, I have been using energy work to restore some function to my

thyroid, but I do this with my endo's knowledge <had to educate her on

it though ;-)> . When I add a new supplement, she is the first to

know I am doing it, what it is and why I add it.

Research is the *KEY* and learning all we can on this disease, making

changes, and learning to really listen to our bodies is all part of

it, but especially for all the new people, they need a GOOD knowledge

of the disease and all it's possibilities, since we are all different

and that takes time. It is why I always urge baby steps in the

changes we make, and being monitored closely by whomever we see to

make sure the changes we make are positive ones. Having survived

thyroid storm, and not learning about this disease until 4 years after

being ablated, I had to make those same baby steps, a hard thing to do

when someone is 47 years old and set in her ways...but it does work!

I am really glad that whatever you are taking is working for you, and

I do hope you have a good doctor or naturopath that is monitoring all

of your postive steps!!! Your journey will be interesting to watch

also. :-)

So I hope you aren't upset that I discourage the new people from

getting into some things before they are ready for them...their

journey is just beginning, they have much to learn, patience being one

of the, which we all know is not an easy thing for a hyper gravesian!

They will know in their minds when they are ready to take other steps

to futher their goals of a much healthier life.

That is the silver lining in having graves, a much healthier lifestyle

is one of the biggest steps we make as we commit ourselves to our

individual journeys as we travel together with the changes we made. If

I never had graves I would be doing all of the unhealthy things I had

done for far to many years :-)

Take care Donna,

Jody