My challenges with my thyroid are not new. I had a hysterectomy at age 38 and since that time, my thyroid has been a running theme in the backdrop. What I have learned in the past 7 years is the differences in how conventional medicine vs. holistic medicine approach the thyroid. MY experience has been that if the situation is not significant enough to throw chemicals at it, the thyroid is largely ignored by the conventional medical community. Slowing down, gaining weight, hair loss, and all of the other joys are just treated as things that happen as you enter middle age. Those of us who choose to embrace our new found wisdom fiercely and fearlessly don’t really fit into that model. So we go to the natural side of medicine that embraces exercise, nutrition, and wellness as a lifelong committment.
Some conventional doctors simply do blood tests while others will go the full route of blood, urine, stool and saliva. The naturopath doctor who has kept me healthy for these 7 years in the great hormone unknown, Dr. Renee Young, tests EVERYTHING. So that is what I am doing right now. Very soon, she will have the results. In about two weeks, we will plot our course. But for now, I’ve got to run. I have another round of tests to participate in.
