#Hashimotos Thyroiditis

[rhiandoesfandom]

Reposting this on here too because I need ppl to understand.

I am so infuriated at the thousands of people I'm seeing that are like "Here's how to move out of the country" I CANT MOVE. My partner and I are both disabled with three cats and own our home it's the only stable thing in our lives.

I don't want to HAVE to move either! Not to sound like a hick but this is is my fucking country. My fucking gay trans country. My fucking DEI country. ITS MINE. I was born here and I can't live anywhere else comfortably right now. And none of them want me anyway because I'm disabled.

That is why it is so important to think of and include disabled folks in your activism, in your protest, in your fight.

Not only do disabled folks typically fully rely on their state Medicaid and their federal disability payment if they're eligible, they also rely on their local communities, their caregivers, their food banks, etc.

It is hardly ever thought about in emergency situations, how to move the disabled folks. Ya know when there's a fire in a building and the elevator stops working and they say to take the stairs? And if you're a disabled person in a wheelchair you're just shit outta luck?

It's like that.

We can't just run when our rights are taken away. Or at the threat of everything else horrible going on. They could be hunting us for sport and we still can't leave.

[cyber-therian]

i love to eat dried seaweed … i have hashimoto’s thyroiditis and the iodine in seaweed helps calm some of the symptoms (alongside my meds ofc) and the umami of seaweed also helps with meat cravings since i dont eat meat :3 plussss the salt content helps increase my blood pressure

not to mention makes me feel like a lil fox who just found the most awesomest snack ever by the ocean mmmmm

[moonlight-at-dawn]

A collection of some of the unhinged "solutions" I've stated for various health/pain issues. Anyone else talk like this about things? I'm curious if so~

"I want to crack open my bunion like a geode."

"Can I just cut open my heel and use an emery board on my heel spur?"

"I want my pelvic bone spatch-cocked like a chicken"

"Crack my tailbone like a glowstick."

"Can I tap my skull like a sugar maple to relieve the pressure?" (yes I know trepanning and spinal taps are things but this is different in my head)

"I want to go to (Mortal Kombat) Sub-Zero Chiropractic, he could fix me." (this is a joke I've seen before but it has never left my head)

"I want to butterfly my plantar fascii/hip flexor like a chicken breast to release the tension"

"If I chop off my leg, it can't hurt me anymore"

"Clear out my hip with an ice cream scoop"

"I want to get rid of my thyroid. I know it won't fix anything, but fuck that traitorous bastard."

[beanskelly]

Happy disability pride to those with thyroid conditions, whether it’s hypothyroid or hyperthyroidism. Thyroid issues suck!! If you are struggling with your thyroid issues, know you’re not alone

[bornangelauthor]

I love my husband BUT

if he could stop bringing home sickness, and his coworkers could stop Sharing sickness that’d be great.

~ Sincerely, an author with an autoimmune disorder who catches everything he brings home.

[bpdshan]

today my doctor said that i *definitely* have an autoimmune disease and told me that i was right from the start, and that i know my body, and thanked me for persisting. i’m going to endocrinology for a hashimotos diagnosis sometime soon.

(previously, she would insist it was mental health related during a lot of our time together, but i would always strongly disagree)

character development 😌

[lostinmirkwood]

Today is a bad energy day. I’m so tired. I’m feeling it on a molecular level and no amount of tea is going to help.

[croakingfairy]

hashimotos is so kawaii because I was diagnosed at 10/11 but I keep finding new things out like apparently my tongue and gums swelling is related to that and im not dying

[disabledsysboxes]

Autoimmune - 3

[gettingthebestofyou]

Today marks my first Zepbound shot. I’m nervous.

I don’t actually think I’m excited. If anything, I’m a little disappointed that I was able to get here in my own. In a little over a year I’ve managed to change my sugar, my cholesterol, and my liver function tests…

…and my whole lifestyle, really.

But I haven’t changed my weight. And my A1C is somehow WORSE than when I started.

I would be lying if I didn’t say that today felt like a”last hurrah” food-wise, and I know I shouldn’t do that, either. But the nausea scares me SO MUCH. And I LOVE food. I love the flavor and the feel and the comfort.

So I had steak and a glass of Prosecco and a bag of chips and there will be ice cream later. Today is NOT a day that exemplifies the changes I’ve made to my diet or my relationship with food. Today is a major backslide.

My dietician might tell me there’s no bad foods, but my lifetime of diet culture tells me I should be ashamed of how I ate today.

But in some ways I’m happy, because in 10 years I haven’t been able to get what’s going on with me under control, even with getting my thyroid treated. And I hate myself.

I hate myself.

I hate the way I look, I hate the way I feel.

Even with trying to cone to terms with the idea of being overweight for the rest of my life if I could JUST GET HEALTHY I still hate myself.

Today is February 3, 2024. I weight 210 lbs. I am 43.8% fat. My A1C is 5.9.

Tonight, I take my first Zepbound shot.

I’m going to use this blog as a diary of sorts, and keep it as anonymous as I can make it. Hopefully so I can see how far I’ve come one day in the future.

If you feel like coming along for the ride, please do.

[rhiandoesfandom]

Having a chronic illness is having sore and stiff joints and so restless you can't sleep. So you stretch your limbs thinking maybe that will work cause the pain meds didn't.

And then it works. And you're mad lol.

[cyber-therian]

its kinda upsetting that i look forward to the spring/summer from January—whenever it gets warm & then I remember that the sun makes me incredibly sickly for no reason.

Light sensitivity? POW! Nausea? POW! Inability to regulate heightened body temperature? POW! Sun sickness after 20 minutes? POW!

luckily i dont usually stay out long enough to burn, but man its so frustrating. at least i can enjoy rainy days more than the average human

[beanskelly]

A quick comic about chronic illness

[ldysmfrst]

[fingertipsfingertipsfingertiiips]

Even when you remove the butterfly boy, he still wins.

reposting now that I've fixed privacy settings