Obesity Support Group
This community is dedicated to those of us struggling with obesity. Obesity is thought to be a significant risk factor in certain health conditions, leading to increased mortality. Find the support you need by sharing your story, asking questions, and learning from others on how they have coped.
Try having Graves and obesity to, cause man alot of the foods you would eat on a diet you can't eat with Graves. So, do I care for one and forget the other. I try everyday to take care of both and then I just get pissed and splurge. I may pay the next day or two, but as dummies we just do those things. I guess if I had not had so many pleasure days I would not be in this mess would I. The folks with sugar problems knows where I'm coming from. They have lowered my thyroid meds cause I went from hyper to hypo and my frigging arms and shoulders hurt so bad, and they wanna tell me to hang in there 2 to 4 weeks and it will go away. All I can say is there not the ones in pain. Dontcha just love doctors. On the good side I lost 2.2lbs:)
Christa
In January, I suffered a miscarriage and my OB/GYN tested my thyroid. I've had my thyroid tested before because I too would go to my doctor complaining of symptoms but was always told I was "on the low end of the normal range." Luckily for me my OB/GYN didn't accept that and I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism and am also now on Synthroid. I haven't lost much weight yet (but then again, I haven't been trying very hard) but I feel so much better. I don't feel fatigued, I have a little more energy (more will come when I start losing weight), my hair isn't falling out, my nails are cracking and brittle. I really wish the medical community would start looking at this whole thyroid thing differently. Luckily my Dr. caught it when I was 29. My poor mother suffered needlessly into her 50's.