July-07-09

Latest news from thyroid land...nothing....at all. My levels were tested about two weeks ago so I should be getting results soon. Sometimes I feel like now one can hear me and sometimes that no one believes me. The thing that would help me the most right now, would be to find someone else my age with Hashi's.
I have stopped eating caffeine and soy products for about a year now, some nights I sleep like a log others I can watch the sun rise. I never really understood that I had a disease, I use to always call it Hashimoto's disorder. It changed, I have changed. My disease is a part of me, I want to be able to not worry that I could pass out, or be able to sing and not be afraid my voice will go horse. I want to be able to pull and "all-nighter" with friends.
I decided to write this blog to find others like me, but who all I have found are between 30-50 years old, they have helped but, I really want to find someone who knows what it's like to cancel a big date, or not finish your final English paper because you slept the day away.
The summer seems to be the worst with Hashi's because of the El Paso heat, but this blog is more about me getting out of this cycle of never ending discomfort. I have already started changing my life in many ways to help my family and I get though this. I have changed my eating habits to completely taking out soy and caffeine, at my next doctors visit I will bring up a gluten-free diet.
The most important thing I'm doing is keeping my sprit high and staying optimistic, by still going on with my normal teenage life I can see how strong I really am, and so can everyone else.