Guest guest Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 just wondering..i feel very stuck in the house sometime. now keep in mind i live in the country and everything i could want to do (read, play in the garden, play with the hubby, play on the computer, cook, etc) I can pretty much do without having to see civilization. but there is the grocery store to go too...although the hubby does that sometimes. and sometimes i just feel that i don't have enough " whatever " to get out there and do things like i used to. that i'm too content here at home. and for one thing, i get tired if i go and do stuff. so just wondering - how active are all you gals (and guys)? do you get out much....what is your life like? how has it changed with the hypo? cindi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 just wondering..i feel very stuck in the house sometime. now keep in mind i live in the country and everything i could want to do (read, play in the garden, play with the hubby, play on the computer, cook, etc) I can pretty much do without having to see civilization. but there is the grocery store to go too...although the hubby does that sometimes. and sometimes i just feel that i don't have enough " whatever " to get out there and do things like i used to. that i'm too content here at home. and for one thing, i get tired if i go and do stuff. so just wondering - how active are all you gals (and guys)? do you get out much....what is your life like? how has it changed with the hypo? cindi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 In a message dated 2/23/2005 5:30:09 PM Eastern Standard Time, artisticgroom@... writes: > Yes hypo has permanently changed my life, but I am content with the changes hmmm....that's sorta how i feel i guess. i'm very content...but i think i wonder if maybe i shouldn't be so content...because my life used to be much different. cindi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 In a message dated 2/23/2005 5:30:09 PM Eastern Standard Time, artisticgroom@... writes: > Yes hypo has permanently changed my life, but I am content with the changes hmmm....that's sorta how i feel i guess. i'm very content...but i think i wonder if maybe i shouldn't be so content...because my life used to be much different. cindi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 In a message dated 2/23/2005 5:30:09 PM Eastern Standard Time, artisticgroom@... writes: > Yes hypo has permanently changed my life, but I am content with the changes hmmm....that's sorta how i feel i guess. i'm very content...but i think i wonder if maybe i shouldn't be so content...because my life used to be much different. cindi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 In a message dated 2/23/2005 6:10:49 PM Eastern Standard Time, mdstephenson@... writes: > I put myself through two degrees, moved all over the country by my self for > work, taught assertiveness trng, etc. Since hypo I am reclusive, don't care > what I look like, feel like there is someone else inhabiting my body, can't > do anywhere near the physical work I use to be able to do, paranoid to some > extent, hate my fat body that jiggles too, feel like there is no one except > ya'll to talk to about this as no one believes this illness, etc, etc,etc. I > feel like I have become someone I don't recognize, don't like, don't know how > to get rid of or if I can get rid of her. Fly off the handle, have bouts of > crying, my husband does most of the shopping done, handles calls, problems, > etc. I simply feel I can't do it. I remember my old self, sometimes I > believe that I did it all but then doubt it and feel I have made it all up you have made me cry. i could have written this on some days. i know exactly how you feel. exactly. geez. i'm gonna let my husband read this...this is what i sometimes tell him about...when i say " I don't know how to get back to who i was " ...geez... cindi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 In a message dated 2/23/2005 6:10:49 PM Eastern Standard Time, mdstephenson@... writes: > I put myself through two degrees, moved all over the country by my self for > work, taught assertiveness trng, etc. Since hypo I am reclusive, don't care > what I look like, feel like there is someone else inhabiting my body, can't > do anywhere near the physical work I use to be able to do, paranoid to some > extent, hate my fat body that jiggles too, feel like there is no one except > ya'll to talk to about this as no one believes this illness, etc, etc,etc. I > feel like I have become someone I don't recognize, don't like, don't know how > to get rid of or if I can get rid of her. Fly off the handle, have bouts of > crying, my husband does most of the shopping done, handles calls, problems, > etc. I simply feel I can't do it. I remember my old self, sometimes I > believe that I did it all but then doubt it and feel I have made it all up you have made me cry. i could have written this on some days. i know exactly how you feel. exactly. geez. i'm gonna let my husband read this...this is what i sometimes tell him about...when i say " I don't know how to get back to who i was " ...geez... cindi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 In a message dated 2/23/2005 6:10:49 PM Eastern Standard Time, mdstephenson@... writes: > I put myself through two degrees, moved all over the country by my self for > work, taught assertiveness trng, etc. Since hypo I am reclusive, don't care > what I look like, feel like there is someone else inhabiting my body, can't > do anywhere near the physical work I use to be able to do, paranoid to some > extent, hate my fat body that jiggles too, feel like there is no one except > ya'll to talk to about this as no one believes this illness, etc, etc,etc. I > feel like I have become someone I don't recognize, don't like, don't know how > to get rid of or if I can get rid of her. Fly off the handle, have bouts of > crying, my husband does most of the shopping done, handles calls, problems, > etc. I simply feel I can't do it. I remember my old self, sometimes I > believe that I did it all but then doubt it and feel I have made it all up you have made me cry. i could have written this on some days. i know exactly how you feel. exactly. geez. i'm gonna let my husband read this...this is what i sometimes tell him about...when i say " I don't know how to get back to who i was " ...geez... cindi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 In a message dated 2/23/2005 7:06:40 PM Eastern Standard Time, desertrosejw@... writes: > My 3rd wedding anniversary is coming up soon...we still consider > ourselves newlyweds...and for the life of me I don't know why my > husband still loves me so much. > our 10th anniversary is this friday...and i would say the same. i don't know how he has done it. he has been so good to me....so true to me...so understanding....and never once said a thing about how i changed over the years. he just keeps loving me. and then when i was diagnosed, he was so glad to know what was wrong. and i feel guility that's its been a year...and I'm still not " all better " ...and he always tells me " you're still recovering " . yea...mine is a gift from god for sure...because i tell ya...the man still love me despite it all. cindi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 In a message dated 2/23/2005 7:06:40 PM Eastern Standard Time, desertrosejw@... writes: > My 3rd wedding anniversary is coming up soon...we still consider > ourselves newlyweds...and for the life of me I don't know why my > husband still loves me so much. > our 10th anniversary is this friday...and i would say the same. i don't know how he has done it. he has been so good to me....so true to me...so understanding....and never once said a thing about how i changed over the years. he just keeps loving me. and then when i was diagnosed, he was so glad to know what was wrong. and i feel guility that's its been a year...and I'm still not " all better " ...and he always tells me " you're still recovering " . yea...mine is a gift from god for sure...because i tell ya...the man still love me despite it all. cindi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 >>how active are all you gals (and guys)? do you get out much....what is your life like? how has it changed with the hypo?<< Well I used to be a biker. Can't do that cause I am too nightblind. Used to always have a date or a party to go to now I have gone out twice in the last 2 years. I DO go out 5 days a week to work and on one of my days off I go shopping, clean house, do laundry. The other day off I don't even get dressed and it is a total do nothing, sleep, read email and watch TV day. Without that do nothing day I suffer all week still. I have no reason to go out anymore. Don't want no dam man, don't want friends that drop in & see my cat haired house, and don't want any more activities that take money I can't afford and energy I don't have. Yes hypo has permanently changed my life, but I am content with the changes. I still go to dog shows and grooming seminars now & then and I have a few friends I visit once in a great while. *Artistic Grooming * Hurricane, WV Fat cat? Diabetes? Listowner for overweight or hypothyroid cats http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hypokitties/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 >>how active are all you gals (and guys)? do you get out much....what is your life like? how has it changed with the hypo?<< Well I used to be a biker. Can't do that cause I am too nightblind. Used to always have a date or a party to go to now I have gone out twice in the last 2 years. I DO go out 5 days a week to work and on one of my days off I go shopping, clean house, do laundry. The other day off I don't even get dressed and it is a total do nothing, sleep, read email and watch TV day. Without that do nothing day I suffer all week still. I have no reason to go out anymore. Don't want no dam man, don't want friends that drop in & see my cat haired house, and don't want any more activities that take money I can't afford and energy I don't have. Yes hypo has permanently changed my life, but I am content with the changes. I still go to dog shows and grooming seminars now & then and I have a few friends I visit once in a great while. *Artistic Grooming * Hurricane, WV Fat cat? Diabetes? Listowner for overweight or hypothyroid cats http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hypokitties/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 Hypothyroidism causes many people to want to become recluses and to be happy to just be by themselves. It sure did me. Broda has written about the changes to personality that happen in hypothyroidism. Near the end before my diagnosis and when I had gotten very bad and hypo, I could not handle going to the store and just getting the laundry done was like a day's job that wore me out. I did not like to go to parties or social functions and could not be out past 9:00 at night. I would get sick after such things. They always felt like they were just too much for me to handle. I didn't have the resources. I also lacked the ability to feel joy anymore. I also lived in the country. It's all different now that I am on 3-3/4 grains. I actually enjoy parties most of the time and I go to the store almost every time now. I walk downtown to shop and do a lot more. I feel joy again and love beautiful days. Tish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 Hypothyroidism causes many people to want to become recluses and to be happy to just be by themselves. It sure did me. Broda has written about the changes to personality that happen in hypothyroidism. Near the end before my diagnosis and when I had gotten very bad and hypo, I could not handle going to the store and just getting the laundry done was like a day's job that wore me out. I did not like to go to parties or social functions and could not be out past 9:00 at night. I would get sick after such things. They always felt like they were just too much for me to handle. I didn't have the resources. I also lacked the ability to feel joy anymore. I also lived in the country. It's all different now that I am on 3-3/4 grains. I actually enjoy parties most of the time and I go to the store almost every time now. I walk downtown to shop and do a lot more. I feel joy again and love beautiful days. Tish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 Cindi, I was so sick when I was made hypoT from the anti thyroid drugs that I honestly couldn't do anything more than get up, drag myself to work, and come home to hit the bed and be sound asleep by 6:00 daily. I will never forget how sick I was, if I live to be 100. Now, after the armour, now Naturethroid.....I can do anything I used to do. I still get tired, but I'm not one of these 'young spring chickens' heheh. I'm 50 but feel like 25 again. It's nice to be able to come home after working all day, and feel like doing something around the house. I love that more than anything I can possibly think of at this point. No more having to eat dinners at the kids house on Holidays unless it's what we planned. When I got sick, I was unable to stand to cook, couldn't bend to load the dishwasher, and gathering up the laundry to get to the washing machine made me sound like I was taking my last breath. I'd literally have to stop in the living room because my back pain was excruciating, and I felt as if I just couldn't go on. I used to love to shop, but was so bad I couldn't hardly stand or hold myself up, much less push a grocery cart through the store if I needed groceries. Those days are just gone now and I love it! I have to be 'in the mood' to cook, clean, or go anywhere. I've always been that way, but now, I can go spend the day at my aunts house, as I did a few weekends ago and came home with a new vehicle. :-) I am not one who wants to sit around while everything around me needs my attention whether at work or home. I think I'm kinder to myself these days. If it's rainy and I don't want to get out on the weekends, then I may go take a nap, or just lay in bed and watch a DVD or read. I try not to stress over anything that I have no control over. That is also a big plus with this disease. My cousin, who's 11 yrs younger than me says I'm like a big kid again. She just lives too far away for us to meet twice a week to go bowling with the kids. I miss that. :-) SandyE~Houston On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 17:15:53 EST nc2406@... wrote: > just wondering..i feel very stuck in the house sometime. now >keep in mind i > live in the country and everything i could want to do (read, play in >the > garden, play with the hubby, play on the computer, cook, etc) I can >pretty much do > without having to see civilization. > > but there is the grocery store to go too...although the hubby does >that > sometimes. and sometimes i just feel that i don't have enough > " whatever " to get > out there and do things like i used to. that i'm too content here >at home. and > for one thing, i get tired if i go and do stuff. > > so just wondering - how active are all you gals (and guys)? do you >get out > much....what is your life like? how has it changed with the hypo? > cindi > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 Cindi, I was so sick when I was made hypoT from the anti thyroid drugs that I honestly couldn't do anything more than get up, drag myself to work, and come home to hit the bed and be sound asleep by 6:00 daily. I will never forget how sick I was, if I live to be 100. Now, after the armour, now Naturethroid.....I can do anything I used to do. I still get tired, but I'm not one of these 'young spring chickens' heheh. I'm 50 but feel like 25 again. It's nice to be able to come home after working all day, and feel like doing something around the house. I love that more than anything I can possibly think of at this point. No more having to eat dinners at the kids house on Holidays unless it's what we planned. When I got sick, I was unable to stand to cook, couldn't bend to load the dishwasher, and gathering up the laundry to get to the washing machine made me sound like I was taking my last breath. I'd literally have to stop in the living room because my back pain was excruciating, and I felt as if I just couldn't go on. I used to love to shop, but was so bad I couldn't hardly stand or hold myself up, much less push a grocery cart through the store if I needed groceries. Those days are just gone now and I love it! I have to be 'in the mood' to cook, clean, or go anywhere. I've always been that way, but now, I can go spend the day at my aunts house, as I did a few weekends ago and came home with a new vehicle. :-) I am not one who wants to sit around while everything around me needs my attention whether at work or home. I think I'm kinder to myself these days. If it's rainy and I don't want to get out on the weekends, then I may go take a nap, or just lay in bed and watch a DVD or read. I try not to stress over anything that I have no control over. That is also a big plus with this disease. My cousin, who's 11 yrs younger than me says I'm like a big kid again. She just lives too far away for us to meet twice a week to go bowling with the kids. I miss that. :-) SandyE~Houston On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 17:15:53 EST nc2406@... wrote: > just wondering..i feel very stuck in the house sometime. now >keep in mind i > live in the country and everything i could want to do (read, play in >the > garden, play with the hubby, play on the computer, cook, etc) I can >pretty much do > without having to see civilization. > > but there is the grocery store to go too...although the hubby does >that > sometimes. and sometimes i just feel that i don't have enough > " whatever " to get > out there and do things like i used to. that i'm too content here >at home. and > for one thing, i get tired if i go and do stuff. > > so just wondering - how active are all you gals (and guys)? do you >get out > much....what is your life like? how has it changed with the hypo? > cindi > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 I hear ya Cindi! I SO used to love to ride my Harley and travel, and now I just get too tired to do it, but then maybe I finally wore out my wanderlust.. LOL I mean I went in the last 5 years from PA to CA to GA to here... and moved at least twice in each place, so I think I am worn out content! LOL *Artistic Grooming * Hurricane, WV Fat cat? Diabetes? Listowner for overweight or hypothyroid cats http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hypokitties/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 Cindi, I put myself through two degrees, moved all over the country by my self for work, taught assertiveness trng, etc. Since hypo I am reclusive, don't care what I look like, feel like there is someone else inhabiting my body, can't do anywhere near the physical work I use to be able to do, paranoid to some extent, hate my fat body that jiggles too, feel like there is no one except ya'll to talk to about this as no one believes this illness, etc, etc,etc. I feel like I have become someone I don't recognize, don't like, don't know how to get rid of or if I can get rid of her. Fly off the handle, have bouts of crying, my husband does most of the shopping done, handles calls, problems, etc. I simply feel I can't do it. I remember my old self, sometimes I believe that I did it all but then doubt it and feel I have made it all up. Deb Re: a real life just wondering..i feel very stuck in the house sometime. now keep in mind i live in the country and everything i could want to do (read, play in the garden, play with the hubby, play on the computer, cook, etc) I can pretty much do without having to see civilization. but there is the grocery store to go too...although the hubby does that sometimes. and sometimes i just feel that i don't have enough " whatever " to get out there and do things like i used to. that i'm too content here at home. and for one thing, i get tired if i go and do stuff. so just wondering - how active are all you gals (and guys)? do you get out much....what is your life like? how has it changed with the hypo? cindi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 I want to pull over and fall asleep driving in a car! love to ride my Harley and travel, and now I just get too tired to do it, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 >>I want to pull over and fall asleep driving in a car!<< 6 years ago I fell asleep without pulling over driving my car. Also in the middle of grooming a dog. I have come a LONG way since then! *Artistic Grooming * Hurricane, WV Fat cat? Diabetes? Listowner for overweight or hypothyroid cats http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hypokitties/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 >>I want to pull over and fall asleep driving in a car!<< 6 years ago I fell asleep without pulling over driving my car. Also in the middle of grooming a dog. I have come a LONG way since then! *Artistic Grooming * Hurricane, WV Fat cat? Diabetes? Listowner for overweight or hypothyroid cats http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hypokitties/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 >>I want to pull over and fall asleep driving in a car!<< 6 years ago I fell asleep without pulling over driving my car. Also in the middle of grooming a dog. I have come a LONG way since then! *Artistic Grooming * Hurricane, WV Fat cat? Diabetes? Listowner for overweight or hypothyroid cats http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hypokitties/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 > It's all different now that I am on 3-3/4 grains. I actually enjoy > parties most of the time and I go to the store almost every time > now. I walk downtown to shop and do a lot more. I feel joy again and love beautiful days. Parties? What are those? (The only parties we ever see around here are during the holidays, unfortunately.) Janie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 > It's all different now that I am on 3-3/4 grains. I actually enjoy > parties most of the time and I go to the store almost every time > now. I walk downtown to shop and do a lot more. I feel joy again and love beautiful days. Parties? What are those? (The only parties we ever see around here are during the holidays, unfortunately.) Janie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 23, 2005 Report Share Posted February 23, 2005 I can so relate to many of the comments here (well, except for the Harley parts!). Reading how some of you have begun living life and feeling joy after receiving proper treatment has actually made me cry...I'm so hoping for the same one day soon. It helps give me hope. My 3rd wedding anniversary is coming up soon...we still consider ourselves newlyweds...and for the life of me I don't know why my husband still loves me so much. I have had to temporarily close my business and can no longer work (I've worked since I was 15). I can't keep up with the laundry or household chores by myself, much less do grocery shopping or simple errands. I'm just too exhausted and seldom have enough energy to leave the house... ....very different from the independent business owner, home owner, and busy single mom of 4 kids that I used to be. But he loves me with all his heart and thinks I'm wonderful and beautiful to boot, even though I'm not. For now, that's my real life and I'm thankful to have his love and support. If it weren't for him and my kids I'm sure I'd be coping with severe depression on top of everything else. My faith is also a very important part of my life and has definitely helped keep me going, although my health has prevented me from being nearly as active as I used to be. All things considered, and in spite of going through such a difficult time right now...I'm pretty darned blessed. Hopefully soon the all-consuming feelings of utter exhaustion will be replaced with the joy and happiness I have right at my fingertips. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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