You are responsible for consulting your health care professionals, and responsible for your own health. This is meant for educational information only. Don't jump off of any drug all of a sudden -- especially thyroid drugs -- because this can be dangerous. Consult your medical professionals for any changes to make in your health practices. Try to find a good alternative doctor who understands this information if you would like to follow up on it.
7 REASONS I GO FOR NATURAL TREATMENT OF MY THYROID
1. The quick answer to why I don't want to take a drug for my thyroid is that I would become a walking pharmacy if I took a drug for every little problem my body ever had (100-200 symptoms from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome during one stretch of a few years). Instead, I reach for the knowledge to find root causes.
2. Secondly, I understand that everything I put into or onto my body causes effects other than the original intended effects ("side effects"). In the long run this digging for the root causes is more effective because I understand that the cause of one problem is related to another problem...is related to another problem....is related to another problem.....and in the same way....something I do for health is related to making another part of my body healthier..... everything we do causes "side effects." I choose my side effects to be good ones through use of natural products, so that I don't need to cover them up with another drug. The side effect of my body temperature going back up to normal is a sex drive, sleeping well, and good moods (three things I don't have to medicate with another pharmaceutical product).
3. Third, everything in the body is interrelated, and prescription drugs burden the liver, which has a job of removing toxins from the body. Because of everything being interrelated, just because you shut off one problem with a drug, does not mean that the cause (a deficiency in a vitamin or mineral) is not causing problems in other parts of the body. Having the liver burdened can cause its own problems in time.
4. The fourth reason why I resist traditional medication for thyroid is that I understand why my thyroid gets low and can return it to normal function at will within one to three weeks with natural products that are not dangerous (to me) in the least and can be stopped and started without problem. If I stayed on the products most of the time that would be optimal, but sometimes I run out or just want to take a break to keep it working effectively.
5. The fifth reason is that, like Dr. Richard Schulze, who is in the natural medicine field, I do not believe in incurable diseases, only that there are incurable people.
6. The sixth reason is that I would like to be in control of my own body chemistry and when it can be avoided, not put anything artificial into my body. This, in the long run, could make problems easier to solve, rather than constantly juggling drugs and foods that could interfere with each other.
7. The seventh reason is that when it comes to my health and who controls it, I DO.
KNOW YOUR BODY, KNOW YOURSELF, READ YOUR BODY SIGNALS
I have had my body for longer than the doctors have been to school. If I understand my body and garner knowledge through reading, I have an edge over them. Although I consult my doctors when appropriate because I don't know everything, I do not view them as gods (they don't know everything either), but as resources along with my own resource of being driven to read and to know, and my drive to experiment and find out what works for me. I tell them what I am doing, but if something is working and they don't agree, I also stand my ground. I have several times been given advice that was not true and would not have led to solving my health problems, and I only knew to do something different because of evolving a feedback system with my body.
SYMPTOMS
This is what happens when my thyroid is low (may or may not be the same for you):
- feeling off balance physically and emotionally,
- being klutzy and uncoordinated,
- sleeping a lot longer than usual every night,
- being tired when I am awake,
- being cold all the time and chilled easily,
- at times being extremely cold and not able to be warmed,
- it negatively affects my adrenal gland function
- cold hands (right hand colder than left), cold feet, cold nose,
- morning waking temperature below 97.8 degrees,
- absentmindedness
- irrational behavior
- doing things and completely not remembering it
- speeding thoughts
- feelings of not being in my body
- sleep problems,
- lower mood, more crying, and higher irritability,
- my hair falls out by the handfuls and splits a lot,
- spaciness and forgetfulness,
- a certain fogginess sets in,
- no more dreaming,
- no sex drive,
- high cholesterol on regular medical tests
- anemic blood on blood cell analysis tests
- poor or no reflexes
- rapid tooth decay
- higher tendency to get chronic systemic candidiasis infections
- crippled immune system that may take 2 weeks or more to kick the flu
- unable to run a good fever
- voice deepens and I trip over my words a lot when speaking
