#Hashimoto’s Thyroids

[cyber-therian]

i love to eat dried seaweed … i have hashimoto’s thyroiditis and the iodine in seaweed helps calm some of the symptoms (alongside my meds ofc) and the umami of seaweed also helps with meat cravings since i dont eat meat :3 plussss the salt content helps increase my blood pressure

not to mention makes me feel like a lil fox who just found the most awesomest snack ever by the ocean mmmmm

[moonlight-at-dawn]

A collection of some of the unhinged "solutions" I've stated for various health/pain issues. Anyone else talk like this about things? I'm curious if so~

"I want to crack open my bunion like a geode."

"Can I just cut open my heel and use an emery board on my heel spur?"

"I want my pelvic bone spatch-cocked like a chicken"

"Crack my tailbone like a glowstick."

"Can I tap my skull like a sugar maple to relieve the pressure?" (yes I know trepanning and spinal taps are things but this is different in my head)

"I want to go to (Mortal Kombat) Sub-Zero Chiropractic, he could fix me." (this is a joke I've seen before but it has never left my head)

"I want to butterfly my plantar fascii/hip flexor like a chicken breast to release the tension"

"If I chop off my leg, it can't hurt me anymore"

"Clear out my hip with an ice cream scoop"

"I want to get rid of my thyroid. I know it won't fix anything, but fuck that traitorous bastard."

[bizlybebo]

some1 tell me something to write/draw

[oscarisaacasimov]

reposting now that I've fixed privacy settings

[mandana-the-service-pup]

Almost two weeks in an active flare. Just messaged my Rheumatologist yesterday. Hopefully she’ll get back to me with a steroid Rx to get me through this.

[1863-project]

This is a really difficult time of year for me now. It's been this way ever since I got sick.

Hashimoto's thyroiditis, the autoimmune thyroid disorder I have, causes both weight gain and weight loss resistance. At this time of year, everyone is bombarded with things about weight loss and exercise and all of that stuff, and it's really difficult when your body isn't capable of it. Exercise is difficult when your thyroid pushes on your trachea and makes it harder to breathe, and you can't do it very long anyway since the same issue has caused you muscle weakness. You have to take everything slower.

I used to enjoy hiking. I can't walk uphill now without being short of breath almost immediately because of the pressure going at that angle puts on my trachea.

It hurts to see all these people talking about how they're going to "improve" their bodies and become rail thin and lose weight and knowing that they think your body is unacceptable because you're sick and it won't change the way theirs will. Diet and exercise can't really do much when you have an autoimmune disorder, and when you try to find out more you find all these quack products and solutions that clearly don't work.

My weight's plateaued at the point it's been at for a few years now. I'm not really getting any bigger anymore, and most people don't even notice it even though I feel like I'm distended. It's dysmorphia on my end - I never look the way I do in my mind - but since I'm not completely flat with no body fat the people in the commercials and ads and medical professionals are all going to just keep trying to "fix" something that can't be fixed because I have an autoimmune disorder.

I want so badly to feel comfortable in this body, but it isn't considered attractive or beautiful or even acceptable by society at large, so it makes it so difficult to really be okay with it.

I'm dysmorphic. This is what I look like in reality.

Even looking like this, doctors like to focus on my weight, so you can imagine what people far bigger than me have to deal with.

I wish we could just move on from this, but it doesn't look like we will anytime soon.

[beanskelly]

Happy disability pride to those with thyroid conditions, whether it’s hypothyroid or hyperthyroidism. Thyroid issues suck!! If you are struggling with your thyroid issues, know you’re not alone

[danny-ric]

"Hashimoto's/hypothyroidism isn't a real disability. You're just being dramatic."

[blackholemojis]

can you make a few wordmojis for hashimoto’s disease? like “hashimoti’s disease,” “i have HT,” and “thyroid flare” pls and thank you!! :)

Yep!

[ID: purple light mode emojis reading:

Hashimoto’s disease

I have HT

thyroid flare

/End ID]

[ID: purple dark mode emojis reading:

Hashimoto’s disease

I have HT

thyroid flare

/End ID]

[survivingfmandcfs]

Hey sorry I can't come out tonight after all. Yeah I accidentally ate some sweetened yogurt and now I have to spend at least the next twelve hours lying in bed because I'm shaking too hard to stand up.

[flouseason]

the relationship between an autoimmune girl and her bed and her fluffy blankets and her cats and her fluffy socks and her candles and her bedside snacks and her pile of unread books and her pile of trash and her unread notifications and her clothes she’s worn a week straight and her crippling fear that shes broken and will never be okay and her

[aroaceconfessions]

Small vent, because recently I learned that I have Hashimoto's disease and that does explain a lot since it can cause a lot of different problems, but one of them is lack of libido.

I've identified as an asexual since I've been 14 years old, and over the years I've come to terms with it and became comfortable, even happy, by identifying as ace. I like not having any sexual attractions- but what if it's caused by this illness? It's not that I would feel like an impostor in ace community, but what if I'll get my treatment, and suddenly I'll just feel the attraction, because it wasn't there for the lack of my libido? I would have to accept that the label I was comfortable, that I grew up with, is suddenly not me? I'm suddenly really scared of the treatment even though I really want it, because I feel horrible in my body and this will help to change it, but yeah. I also have my concerns

Submitted May 4, 2023

[cyber-therian]

its kinda upsetting that i look forward to the spring/summer from January—whenever it gets warm & then I remember that the sun makes me incredibly sickly for no reason.

Light sensitivity? POW! Nausea? POW! Inability to regulate heightened body temperature? POW! Sun sickness after 20 minutes? POW!

luckily i dont usually stay out long enough to burn, but man its so frustrating. at least i can enjoy rainy days more than the average human

[bizlybebo]

sorry 4 being dead 4 like 24 hours straight i am ok just going thru a bad pain week and may be dead for a lil while^__^ heart emoji

[delusional-delirium]

GUESS WHOSE THYROID IS SO MUCH BIGGER THAN THE SIZE IT SHOULD BE

GUESS WHOSE S NEW ENDO SAID THEIR OLD ENDO SHOULD N O T HAVE IGNORED IT THAT LONG

GUESS WHOSE S NEW ENDO SAID THEIR THYROID IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST THYROIDS THEYVE EVER SEEN

GUESS WHO NOW HAS TO POSSIBLY HAVE SURGERY TO REMOVE THEIR THYROID

GUESS WHOSE OLD ENDO CONTINUOUSLY IGNORED THEIR CONCERNS AND BLAMED IT ON THEIR WEIGHT OR ANXIETY DIAGNOSIS AND TOLD THEM TO TALK TO THEIR PSYCHIATRIST FOR YEARS

[mandana-the-service-pup]

My Rheumatology appointment was great. The dramatic improvement on Methotrexate was the final piece of the puzzle. My Rheumatologist was able to confirm a Spondyloarthritis diagnosis based on my improvement and the X-rays, blood tests, etc. She said my presentation is not typical (probably bc of the EDS & dysautonomia) so Lupus will always need to be on the table and I’m supposed to inform doctors of my increased risk for drug-induced Lupus.

Methotrexate has improved 4-5 years of symptom development but it’s not enough on its own. Hydroxychloroquine and Methotrexate are both dosed based on weight so they can’t be increased. I’m supposed to stay on both medications and use steroids for acute flares (2 pills in the morning every day for a week) If the steroids don’t help then we might move on from Methotrexate to the next DMARD.

I’m so incredibly grateful to finally have a diagnosis that can be treated effectively. I’ve had symptoms my whole life, disabled for the last ten years and have had red flag symptoms for the last several years. To finally have treatment options is such a relief. My Cardiologist follow-up is next week and I can’t wait to finally quell their doubts in me.