A valid reason not to post...

Most people don't blog for a long period of time, for one very good reason...

The symptoms of this reason are as follows:

Fatigue/Tiredness

Nausea

Muscle-aches

Headaches

Weight gain

So here in lies why I have not blogged

If you guessed pregnant... boy are you wrong.

I would have some serious explaining to do.

But if you guess Hypothyroidism... then you would have hit it right on the button.

About 8 weeks ago or so I started feeling extremely tired. I just attributed this to my new job and thought it would go away. But it never did.

And then I started gaining weight... and by that I mean about 10 lbs in 2 weeks.

(Which didn't make any sense since I had not changed my diet or my exercise.)

Clearly this would make sense if I had a child growing inside of me, and if you looked at me, you might think, hmm she's about 16 weeks along... but again you would have been wrong.

Then I started feeling like I had just completed a marathon... which I hadn't. I felt physically exhausted. I could barely move my arms and I would just get hit with it.

I was getting horrible charlie horses in the middle of the night and the pain was not going away. When I woke up in the morning, my legs would still be sore.

I went and saw an naturalist because I had heard some -iffy things about the synthetic thyroid, and at this point I was thinking it was probably a thyroid problem.

She tested me and found out that I was operating on almost no thyroid. Like it was crazy how little thyroid I had.

She put me on armar, which is the natural one... also it comes from a pig.

On day two, I had stopped getting the charlie horses, but all of my other symptoms were still there. And the fatigue was only getting worse.

It was horrible.

I was depressed.

There is no worse feeling in the world, then not feeling like your self.

I never wanted to do anything or see anyone because I felt tired all the time, on top of that, my clothes weren't fitting because of my weight gain and you can only get away with flowy skirts for so long before people start to think you have joined some hippie commune and are going to grow out your leg hair.

(which thanks to laser hair removal, I have little of)

After about 3 weeks on the armar I decided I had had enough and I went and saw another doctor.

He decided to put me me on the real deal, not as many mg of thyroid as I wanted, but at this point anything was better than what I was on.

I have been on that for a little over a week, and overall things are much better.

I definitely don't feel horrible everyday, like a zombie, which is nice.

But I still don't feel like myself... and by that, I mean my clothes still don't fit like they should, which means I am taking my hermit status to all kinds of new levels.

I would just like to have one solid week of feeling good.

I think I have had one amazing day since I started this.

I just wish that the weight would kinda melt away.

But I guess these 10 lbs. are here to stay.