Knowing is Half the Battle!

Well silly me i figured once they knew what i had that the modern miracle of drugs would fix me right up!  Boy was I wrong,   things were anything but easy once i was diagnosed with Graves disease.  When i was diagnosed my resting heart rate was around 80 bpm and the Propranolol they gave me didn't work well at first!  They had to keep upping my dosage to get my heart rate to come down even close to a normal range.

Then it was the anti-hyperthyroid medication that was suppose to make me feel normal! HA, anything but!  Sure i put on some weight but i still had no energy so it was just fat and no muscle.  My self-esteem was at an all time low and depression was kicking in pretty bad.  I just wanted to lay in bed all day, and do nothing.  It was like living in a nightmare, I couldn't function in anyway.  I could play with my beautiful daughter i couldn't work and the doctors kept telling me i was getting better and I would be as good as new, soon.

I was desperate to feel even half way close to how I felt before i was sick.  I was trying every supplement and vitamin known to man and nothing made even a small bit of difference.  I could only think "is this what the rest of my life will be like"?

I went to a natural-path doctor who said he cured people with Graves disease in the past only using natural herbs.  Long story short after six weeks under his treatment I was almost as sick again as I was before I knew what was wrong with me.

I continued on like this for over 18 months, not sure how I did looking back.  It was time for the next step.  thyroidectomy or radioactive-iodine.  Neither i wanted to have done.