World Thyroid Day 2019

This is me, just a couple weeks before I received my Thyroid Disease diagnosis. Sometimes I look at these pics and I wonder how on earth I didn’t realize the extent of what was going on with my health.

How did I get through every day? How did I get to where I was with my health.

The only answer I can come to is, gradually. I didn’t just wake up one day to be super sick. Graves Disease isn’t something that comes on suddenly overnight.

Slowly. Bit by bit. Day by day.

For 4 years before coming to the US I had been to Doctors to say I wasn’t feeling right. That something was off. To ask for help.

They each told me that there was nothing wrong. They told me I was over stressed. They basically told me it was “in my head”. So, I stopped going. I started to believe it was just in my mind and I ignored the signals my body was giving me.

Friends, if you have even the slightest thought that there’s something not quite right with your health, keep searching for answers. Keep looking. Keep knocking on doors. Keep trying a new doctor. Ask a friend for a recommendation, ask a Doctor for a second opinion, as for a full work up.

Reach out. Keep pushing.

It’s been 15+ years of me dealing with health issues. I have let go of more Doctors than I’ve kept. I’ve regretted treatments and procedures I said “Yes” to and I wish I would have researched more at the beginning. I wish I would have found my voice and learned how to advocate for myself earlier on.

I know it’s exhausting and I know that it’s hard, especially when you look “normal” or “just fine” on the outside.

No one who knew me on the day this pic was taken would have thought there was anything up with my health.

But my intuition knew. Your intuition knows everything that’s going on with your body too. If it’s telling you something is up, listen.

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