Yesterday, my naturopath doctor confirmed for me what I had expected for several weeks but that my general practicioner had missed.
“Yep,” she said. “Your thyroid is blown out.” Then she found the goiter on my thyroid.
Great. Although I was not surprised, I really was hoping it was something different. Like the flu or maybe even strep. Certainly that would explain my body aches, tiredness, the fatigue and increase in my heart rate while exercising, “brain fog”, and the color draining from my face.
I started today with a battery of tests. After studying every body fluid, my doctor will determine the origin of the goiter and the fun begins. Is it Crone’s? Is it Hashimoto’s? Or is it nothing more than my body’s reaction to stress and less than stellar nutrition during the holidays?
I expect to follow a naturopathic route as far as it takes me. I believe strongly in giving the body the tools it needs to heal itself. Exercise, nutrition, chiropractic care and supplements. And then, if pharmaceuticals are still needed, they should work all the better in a body equipped to fight. In the most severe cases, surgery is indicated. I am not even ready to wrap my head around that possibility.
So why am I reporting this here? Its quite simple. Other than advertisements for supplements and unsupported documentation, there is very little outside of traditional medical practices discussed on the internet. So I am going to spell it all out for you right here with the hope that this information will serve others who will search for the very information I did not find in my Google search yesterday.
