Yesterday turned out to include a quite scary but necessary rush to the ER.
Unbeknownst to me, I was having severe symptoms of Hashimoto's disease. Yes, don't condemn me because I didn't realize how I close to death I was. Yes, I knew I was feeling so bad, and yes, I did feel like I was dying, but I thought I was just weak in faith and needed to trust God more. Yes, I should have realized when I was too weak to brush my teeth, and my throat was closing up, and my speech was slurred, and I could barely walk that something was terribly wrong. Yes, I feel so foolish, yet fortunate that God did not let me die that night when I felt like my life was slipping away.
It wasn't until the next day that I realized that heart failure and coma was next if I hadn't taken action when I did. ugh.... Let's put it this way, I was in such bad shape that the ER folks thought I had a stroke. {sad}
All this was the result of me trying to get off my thyroid meds for the past 7 months. I thought I could do it. I read a stupid website saying that it was possible. I will never do anything like that again.
I'm not sure how long it will take me to recover...I'm so very weak. But I know now I can't rush it. I plan to take it easy for the next month or so to start regaining use of my muscles.
So, if there's anyone out there reading this thinking you can get off your thyroid meds (I had been on mine for over 25 years) please don't try it... I mean, I was supplementing with all kinds of natural hormones from cows and different vitamins but they did zero!!! My arm is too painful and weak to even type a full sentence here.
Pitiful...yes, I know...
And now you know better too.
