Have my NHS endoc appt this week!!!!
Can somebody, anybody tell me some positive news about losing this weight once you get the medication. I am exercising - I am so tired but I actually find that if I grit my teeth I can cope. I eat carefully. Logic suggests that if I exercise for an hour every other day and eat carefully and control calories - then with medication the scales should start to do what they haven't for 18 months - go down! I will be so so so happy. I will be able to open my wardrobe and not cry for the girl who used to own the clothes - because maybe just maybe she might be on her way back?????
Any tips gratefully received.
Suz
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Hello Suz
I know exactly what you are saying, I can't even get rings to fit me anymore!! The weight gain was so sudden, it was like I went to bed one night and someone strapped a fat suit on me. I went to bed a giraffe and got up an elephant. Sounds funny I know but it really is'nt. I hate myself, buying clothes is a night-mare. I am a size 16, not so bad I suppose but I was always a size 10/12. All my working life I have been a nurse (not a sedentary job by any means), at home I am hyperactive also. My mother has an under active thyroid gland. She thought the way she felt was just old-age. By the time she was diagnosed all her hair had fallen out not to mention her eyebrows and lashes. She was overweight and suffering from osteo arthritis. These days she is confined to a wheel chair. This is really not what I want for myself and I am trying hard to avoid it. I once went to see an endocrinologist, he was completely uninterested in my condition but was very excited about a bike ride around Uganda that he was doing for charity. For this he tried to charge me £80!! How do you get anyone to listen and help. I have taken my treatment into my own hands now. Each morning, before breakfast I take either 150 or 200 microgrammes of thyroxine and a Selenium tablet. If I have a heart attack, so be it. I am certainly not happy with my life as it is at the moment. I only started this regime on Monday and my prescribed dose is 100 mcgs. The only thing I have noticed up to yet, is that I am passing a lot more urine and my skin does'nt feel quite so 'puffy'. Watch this space. Good luck to you and remember, you are not alone.
Wendy::yikes:
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please visit TPA-UK they have a chat forum that may help, www.tpa-uk.org.uk
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I was diagnosed with an uneractive thyroid 8 years ago and am taking 150mg daily, along with 600mg of ferrous sulphate for aneamia. I gained 5 stone in weight and still am fighting to reduce it. At present i workout at the gym 4 hours a week 2 CV (Martial art workout) and 1 ressistance session workout and 1 gym session. My daughter is a fitness instructer and says to keep at it as i have reduced my blood pressure and chlosetorol levels to normal and my fitness level is improving and cms are coming off. Do not get disheartened as i am beginning to feel fitter. Although i am now showing signs of inflammation in my joints and blood tests confim this. I just keep taking the painkillers and working out.Hopefully i will start to show some inprovement. I have read on another website that you should not take the iron tablets with the thyroxine but at seperate times can anyone shine any light on this.
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