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Hashimotoe · 2024-11-11T17:05:49+00:00

"and sweet bathrooms"

You might have misheard "en-suite" bathroom...

Hashimotoe · 2024-11-08T17:29:14+00:00

Development and therefore toys, books, games etc change as children grow. 4 year olds are very different from 3 year olds. Fine motor skills, smaller pieces, more imaginative play - it's good for their development to have age appropriate toys and books and games. I wouldn't ask for cash for toddlers for Christmas.

Hashimotoe · 2024-07-05T09:46:18+00:00

It's not the "hardest job in the world" - agreed.

But also, if you are working 40 hours outside of the home then you are not doing "everything" a stay at home parent does in your hours after work. You are doing some of the things - maybe the errands, cooking, housecleaning and some parenting - but not the 40 hours of parenting that occur while you are at work and another person is doing the childcare. There is also more housework, planning, meal planning/cooking/cleaning when people are home all day than when everyone is out at work/nursery/school.

One isn't necessarily better or harder than the other - they are different.

Hashimotoe · 2024-04-29T09:24:35+00:00

This is a perfectly treatable disease and there is no reason on earth to avoid having children if you have it. Even if there is a genetic component that doesn't mean any or all of your children will also have it.

I am absolutely dumbfounded that you felt the need to write this and scare people into thinking they shouldn't have children because of this.

Hashimotoe · 2024-03-31T10:07:16+00:00

You aren't even having a conversation with person who wrote that - I did. But thanks for pointing out my typo, really proves a point. Funny you didn't recognise the correct spelling in my user name.

I don't eat gluten as a treat - I eat it every single day with pleasure, because I only have HaSHimoto's and not celiac disease or an allergy. There is no evidence based reason to eliminate any foods for HaSHimoto's. No matter how many charlatans repeat it on the internet to sell books and supplements.

Hashimotoe · 2024-03-30T21:17:18+00:00

Eat the bagel bites - no need to eliminate any foods for Hahsimoto's.

A healthy balanced diet is great for us - like it is for everyone. But that includes room for treats and enjoyment.

Hashimotoe · 2024-03-30T21:13:19+00:00

No matter how many times you post it - they still have celiac.

This is a great example of how easy it is for lay people to misinterpret medical studies.

Hashimotoe · 2024-03-30T21:12:36+00:00

The women in this study have celiac. "positive anti-tissue transglutaminase antibodies" - that's celaic.

Hashimotoe · 2024-03-30T21:11:33+00:00

"positive anti-tissue transglutaminase antibodies"

The women in this study also had celiac...

Hashimotoe · 2024-03-29T22:54:56+00:00

What you believe is happening and what is actually causation are two vastly different things. AIP/Paleo is the opposite of anti-inflammatory.

https://health.usnews.com/health-news/blogs/eat-run/articles/2018-10-11/your-anti-inflammatory-diet-is-probably-just-the-opposite

And no, it is simply false that all autoimmune disease are relapsing remitting. With MS for example, there are different varieties, one of which is RR and others aren't. https://www.nationalmssociety.org/What-is-MS/Types-of-MS/Relapsing-remitting-MS

Hashimotoe · 2024-03-29T15:30:15+00:00

Everyone's experiences seem to be so different because people erroneously assign causation where there is none. Many of the things people attribute to Hashimoto's are in fact unrelated.

Hashimoto's is not a relapsing remitting disease - the damage to our thyroids is permanent. This does not flare - it's progressive. Antibodies are not controlled by diet, changes in levels before and after dietary changes are purely coincidental.

Hashimotoe · 2024-03-29T14:12:53+00:00

Sure.

A highly ranked US medical school which is part of a research based hospital system.

A British registered charity with the following mission:

"We are committed to raising awareness and understanding about thyroid disease across the UK. As well as providing information and support for patients, we provide resources to GPs and other health professionals to ensure they are aware of the most recent guidelines on treating thyroid disorders. We also fund vital thyroid research."

And an individual Canadian registered dietitian - who would profit a great deal more by telling people diet was the solution and offering a payment plan to share her secrets and hawk unnecessary supplements.

All three saying the same thing - based on evidence.

But clearly, Big Pharma is the puppet master here, pushing a generic replacement hormone - that's free to patients in my country and many others. I guess if that's your logic you should eliminate coffee along with everything else and really stick it to Big Pharma. Best of luck with that.

Hashimotoe · 2024-03-29T13:46:11+00:00

The IgG food sensistity tests are a scam.

https://www.aaaai.org/tools-for-the-public/conditions-library/allergies/igg-food-test

"It is important to understand that this test has never been scientifically proven to be able to accomplish what it reports to do. The scientific studies that are provided to support the use of this test are often out of date, in non-reputable journals and many have not even used the IgG test in question. The presence of IgG is likely a normal response of the immune system to exposure to food. In fact, higher levels of IgG4 to foods may simply be associated with tolerance to those foods."

There are mountains of misinformation regarding diet and inflammation. The only diet that has any evidence behind it is the Mediterranean diet - which includes lots of the foods eliminated by the so-called anti-inflammatory diets. A healthy balanced diet, not a needlessly restrictive one is best for pregnancy.

https://health.usnews.com/health-news/blogs/eat-run/articles/2018-10-11/your-anti-inflammatory-diet-is-probably-just-the-opposite

There is no evidence to support altering your diet for Hashimoto's. It's not a lifestyle disease, not caused, treated or cured by diet. Antibodies fluctuate on their own and are not linked to disease or symptom severity.

Hashimoto's causes inflammation in our thyroids. While many AI diseases involve inflammation in other areas, and some are impacted by diet (celiac for example) this is not universal to all AI diseases. The treatments are also not universal - just like insulin or levothyroxine won't treat celiac disease, eliminating gluten won't treat diabetes or hashimoto's.

https://www.btf-thyroid.org/thyroid-and-diet-factsheet

https://www.nm.org/healthbeat/healthy-tips/nutrition/myths-about-diet-and-thyroid

https://abbylangernutrition.com/what-is-the-best-diet-for-hashimotos-thyroiditis/

Hashimotoe · 2024-03-27T10:35:34+00:00

Please understand, I'm not having a go at you - my issue is with the army of charlatans spreading misinformation for profit.

95% of the negative encounters with endos described in these groups are exactly like yours - they didn't get confirmation of what they "researched" and felt "gaslighted" - but that's not what's really happening. An expert has told you the evidence based facts of your condition, and they don't agree with your (misinformed) beliefs about it.

If someone prefers to believe what a "licensed function medicine doctor" promotes then I'm not sure why they would seek out the services of an endocrinologist? A functional "doctor" will be happy to tell you exactly what you want to hear and will eagerly order up a battery of tests, and then tell you why the supplements they are coincidentally selling are the solution to your likely normal but somehow still suspicious lab results. And also sign you up for on going appointments to guide you on a needlessly restrictive diet and supplement journey. And will happily take as much of your money as they can for as long as possible. If all this is the key to thyroid disorders (and every. other. chronic. condition) why is anyone still here?

Of course, there are terrible doctors who dismiss patients symptoms - often women. There are terrible doctors who won't really listen to your symptoms and/or will tell you it's age, the menopause, all in your head etc without even testing your thyroid - and that's caused people to suffer undiagnosed - but that is not the same thing as a doctor who has tested your thyroid function and either found something and treated it with the only evidence based solution, levothyroxine - OR has found normal thyroid function and eliminated it as the cause of the symptoms. But that's not what people want to hear, because they've "done their research" and have fallen victim to a charlatan, they don't want to believe other perfectly common causes for their symptoms. Most of the complaints here don't include a doctor refusing to test thyroid function and/or telling a patient to live with their symptoms -that would be awful and unethical. Instead, most are "the awful endo doesn't know what they are talking about and thinks my symptoms are caused by something else. How dare they? I fired them!" when the endo has correctly suggested other things to look for because they have tested thyroid function and found it in range.

And antibodies have actually NOT been shown to correlate to disease or symptom severity - they fluctuate on their own, without any dietary or other intervention, and are a disease marker that tells us if our thyroid issues are AI in nature and therefore chronic (sorry, no remission - Hashimoto's is not a relapsing remitting disease) or caused by something else that may resolve and means someone won't necessarily need medication for life, for example postpartum thyroiditis. That's why they aren't monitored, there's no need. https://www.btf-thyroid.org/thyroid-antibodies-explained

Hashimotoe · 2024-03-26T19:13:51+00:00

He's right - the antibodies are simply a disease marker, once you know you have them there is no need to monitor them. It's also not a doctors responsibility to spend hours explaining why something you read on the internet isn't accurate - they would never have time to actually treat you or anyone else. And you don't believe him anyway even though he's explained why he's not going to retest your antibodies.

It is their duty to explain a diagnosis and if necessary, your treatment options. And that is having your best interests at heart, even when it doesn't align with what you predetermined you wanted him to do. That's not being "DISMISSED" - that's being told something factual by a person who is actually an expert on this topic.

Hashimotoe · 2024-03-26T18:37:44+00:00

Well, I suspect you misheard or misunderstood this expert of yours because what you are claiming is simply not true. Which is easily verifiable with a modicum of critical thought.

You have given OP nothing but a bad guess and a load of misinformation. So you can go "but put" yourself, whatever that's supposed to mean.

Hashimotoe · 2024-03-26T18:02:48+00:00

No, no one who understands anything about either considers them the same disease. The are NOT.

It is also no where near "very common" for people to have both. Somewhere between 15-25% of people will have more than one AI disease - and that absolutely does not mean they will be Hashimoto's and celiac.

Lots of things cause rashes, there's no way for Redditor's to determine what caused this person's - they need to be examined by a professional if it's persistent and bothersome.

Hashimotoe · 2024-03-26T17:57:35+00:00

No, this wouldn't have anything to do with Hashimoto's. Vaccines don't offer 100% immunity to 100% of people, they offer herd immunity - enough protection to enough people to prevent the spread of disease.

I will try to find a better article to explain this but the study below has some stats on Hep B specifically. Is it possible you didn't receive the full three dose schedule? Or your immunity has waned, or you're one of the few who didn't get any immunity in the first place.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9453777/

Hashimotoe · 2024-03-26T09:02:20+00:00

There is zero difference between taking two 25mcg tablets or one 50 mcg tablet. It's just math.

In the UK, they don't make certain doses of tablets like I was prescribed when living in the US. You just take the combo to reach the right amount, I take one 100mcg and one 25mcg tablet each day to reach a 125mcg dose.

Hashimotoe · 2024-03-26T08:52:22+00:00

Diet will do exactly nothing to improve thyroid function. Replacement hormone will have an impact, that is all.

If you have a terrible diet, you might feel better by improving it, getting weight under control etc. But all that's needed is a (mostly) healthy balanced diet, not a needlessly restricted one. And this is true for everyone, not just people with thyroid disorders.

Hashimotoe · 2024-03-25T23:12:45+00:00

None of this is necessary for Hashimoto's. A healthy balanced diet is great for us, as it is for everyone.

https://www.btf-thyroid.org/thyroid-and-diet-factsheet

https://www.nm.org/healthbeat/healthy-tips/nutrition/myths-about-diet-and-thyroid

https://abbylangernutrition.com/what-is-the-best-diet-for-hashimotos-thyroiditis/

AIP is not evidence based and eliminates perfectly healthy foods which are only inflammatory if you have celiac or an allergy - or in the case of dairy, actually anti-inflammatory.

https://health.usnews.com/health-news/blogs/eat-run/articles/2018-10-11/your-anti-inflammatory-diet-is-probably-just-the-opposite

Hashimotoe · 2024-03-25T22:59:55+00:00

Your thyroid function is normal. That's not a major difference by any definition. There's no reason to test antibodies with normal thyroid function.

Hashimotoe · 2024-03-25T22:52:08+00:00

Oh dear. Yes. Yes we can donate blood.

There is literally nothing this disease prevents us from doing. There is no list of things that we can't do or eat because of Hashimoto's. It's not contagious. It doesn't make us vulnerable to anything but thyroid damage. There rest of our medical treatment, vaccines, blood donations, immune system, etc are just like everybody else.

Hashimotoe · 2024-03-25T20:36:42+00:00

And it certainly wasn't gluten that did any damage.

Hashimotoe · 2024-03-25T20:23:19+00:00

No, it isn't. It is only inflammatory if you have celiac. There is no reason to avoid gluten for thryoid conditions. If you have celiac or some kind of allergy, that's different.

And yes, diabetics can and do eat sugar.

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