I'm writing this thread feeling incredibly frustrated. I have been using 3fatchicks.com since August - I stumbled on it one day and found the site incredibly informitive and encouraging. I was diagnosed with hypothryoidism in 2004 and have had one heck of a long battle trying to get regulated. In 2005 I was finally referred to an endocrinologist where I was then diagnosed with insulin resistant Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. In August I was doing amazing - so well in fact that my doctor for the first time since 2004 actually DECREASED my synthroid from 112 mcg to 100 mcg and my cytomel from 3 times per day to just 2. I had reached an all time low weight since being diagnosed of 163 lbs and felt I was truely on my way to success. That being said we had to move for my husbands career and everything went downhill. I found the gym near us less user friendly and quit my 3-4 time per week swimming... dropped down to like 1-2 times per week. My diet really struggled which of course I could rationalize with all kinds of mumbo jumbo ... we no longer have daily markets near us... our grocery stores don't carry the kind of ezekial bread I like and so on and so on. Well i've landed myself right where I knew it was headed. For starters i've gained 13lbs back putting me at 171 lbs and for the last 4 weeks i've noticed looking back on it that my energy has been slowly decreasing. I feel like I have mono - which is in fact a possibility but needless to say I had to find a new PCP being that I'm in a new area - and go crawling in needing help. She ordered 4 viles of blood today - testing everything under the sun. When in fact i'm sure it's that my thyroid is no longer regulated. I'm wondering if anyone else out there has been diagnosed with both hypothroid (Hashimoto's to be exact) and PCOS? I get so frustrated with all of this. It's weird... even when regulated I still have bad days - almost like someone with chronic fatigue - ya know you eat the wrong things.. overload my body with carbs and then i'm exhausted and have poor mental clarity... but as a result of some bad days I push and push and push myself through it all thinking it's just a bad day, that turns into a bad week, and before I know it I realize that I haven't felt "myself" in almost a month. Well I suppose for tonight i'll end here. Will probably start blogging soon - just a good place to finally start acknowledging that I have a chronic lifelong genetic medical issue. Not that I haven't acknowledged up to this point.. but I feel so exposed even writing this. Any feedback would be encouraging at this point!
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