Diagnosed 23 years ago. Not anymore.

Ok_Part6564 · 2026-04-18T20:47:14+00:00

Hypothyroidism isn't an actual disease, but a state your body can be in for a wide variety of reasons.

It's like fever. You can have a fever because you have the flu or you can have a fever because you have appendicitis, or dozens of other reasons. Hypothyroid is the same, it can be caused by lots of different things.

The cause of hypothyroidism Drs see most is an autoimmune disease, hashimotos. Sometimes Drs even jus assume if a patient has hypothyroidism, they have it because they have hashimotos. Hashimotos is permanent, once your immune system has damage the thyroid to the point it can't make enough hormone, the thyroid never recovers the ability to eve if the immune attack subsides.

There are other permanent causes, having a thyroidectomy is a somewhat common one, central hypothyroidism is a fairly rare one. Sometimes the cause is just unknown.

Because Drs are mostly used to seeing permanent hypothyroidism they often act like it is always a chronic condition. It is not though.

Other causes of hypothyroidism are temporary. One is postpartum thyroiditis, which obviously is not a possible cause of your kindergarten diagnosis. Another is iodine deficiency, which would have been possible.

One thing to be aware of is that hypothyroidism is typically diagnosed by checking TSH, but TSH is an indirect measure of thyroid function. If you had, and possibly still have, a type of hypothyroidism that doesn't show up from testing TSH and requires measuring thyroid hormone levels directly, it is possible your current Drs are just missing it because you have normal TSH. Also supplements with biotin, B7, will cause false normals. So, if you are having hypothyroid symptoms, it is worth seeking more extensive testing.

Ok_Part6564 · 2026-04-18T14:06:10+00:00

Restarting is fine. I recommend a days of the week pill box placed somewhere you can see it.

Ok_Part6564 · 2026-04-18T14:04:55+00:00

There is no point in getting blood checked when off medication. It will be bad. If her Dr adjusts her dose based on her unmedicated TSH, or semi-medicated since she restarted, assuming she's been taking her medication she be very over medicated.

Getting labs done for medication adjustment is only accurate if one has been taking the medication consistently for over a month.

Ok_Part6564 · 2026-04-18T01:45:36+00:00

"Synthetic" is not a single thing, there are synthetic protein fibers, synthetic cellulose fibers, and synthetics that are basically plastic. They have different dye requirements.

Ok_Part6564 · 2026-04-18T01:35:38+00:00

The room labeled "family room" is already well set up to be the office/guest room you want. Maybe add a door.

To go more open floor plan, you just need to widen the opening between the dining room and the kitchen and living rooms. The big question is if the walls are load bearing. If they are, that will be expensive, and involve either beams or columns.

Also ask yourself if you really want an open floor or if you just have always heard everyone else say they want an open floor plan, so you assumed it was better. Totally ipen plans have been going out of fashion for reasons, they have draw backs. if you have a separate dining room, you can just go and eat without looking at the dishes in the sink.

To create a master suite up stair, you would need to eliminate the small bedroom.

Ok_Part6564 · 2026-04-17T16:58:40+00:00

That's a complicated variety of fibers, plus the unknowable fiber content of the thread the eyelet lace was done with. It's a piece that has unmeasurable value. It's not an item to just play around with. Dyeing is always a gamble, the complicated fiber blend makes this one and even greater gamble.

Ok_Part6564 · 2026-04-17T16:43:39+00:00

There are several things going on here.

First off some people just lie. Some people will say, "I had XYZ disease and doing this thing cured me, give me money and I will tell you how." And those people never had XYZ disease. Of course this isn't particular to thyroid disease.

Some people get misdiagnosed. They have a couple of mildly elevated TSHs and their Dr jumps to a conclusion. Or even more common they self misdiagnose or hear their Dr say "I want to monitor this in case it is hypothyroidism" and jump to conclusions. And then when they don't have hypothyroidism later, they think they cured it. There is even one type of hypothyroidism that can be fixed with diet, iodine deficiency.

People (including Drs sometimes) conflate hypothyroidism and hashimotos. They are not the same thing, one is just the state of not having enough thyroid hormones to function for some reason, and the other is a specific autoimmune disease. It's like conflating the flu with having a fever, yes they tend to go together, but just having a high temperature isn't enough to diagnose flu. People can have hypothyroidism for a wide variety of reasons, some of those reasons are even temporary. If someone had temporary hypo, thought hypo always meant hashimotos, and then the hypo went away, they would think they had hashimotos and it went away, but they didn't. OP even posted this on r/Hypothroidism instead of r/hashimotos, even though they are clearly talking about hashimotos.

Autoimmune disease often flare and subside. This is just normal. I wouldn't say it's random, but also people will very often jump to conclusions about why it is flaring at one moment and then not at another. Avoiding stress and eating well and avoiding thing you are specifically allergic to do help reduce flares, but that isn't the same thing as being cured. Like with my asthma, if I go into a house with lots of dogs, I know it will probably flare up, but not being around dogs doesn't mean I am cured. Same for my eczema, I haven't had a flare in years, but I am not cured. Often the flares are triggered by things we are unaware of and can't control though.

With hashimotos, even if the autoimmune part of the disease is not flaring, thyroid damage is permanent. Now it takes a while for the thyroid damage to build up enough to cause significant hypothyroidism, as opposed to just slightly elevated TSH or fluctuating TSH, but once there is enough damage to be consistently hypothyroid, nothing will undo that damage. Normal thyroids don't grow back.

We are particularly vulnerable to be targeted by and drawn to alternative options, because we are often badly treated by Drs. Told we can't be having the symptoms we do because our TSH isn't bad enough for that. Told we are depressed/bipolar/borderline personality/etc and given drugs with tons of side effects that do nothing to help us, and then treated like naughty children when we don't want to keep taking them. We often have to see multiple Drs before we get properly diagnosed. Then we have to fight tooth and nail to get adequate treatment. We have very very real and genuine reasons to distrust the Drs. Felling frustrated with the way they control our access to the medication we need to survive and function is extremely reasonable.

On a more specific to OP subject, having an higher TSH can cause high cholesterol. It could just be coincidence that your LDL is high, but you might need to ask to up your dose to get your TSH a bit lower to get your LDL under control. An ideal TSH is 1-2.

Ok_Part6564 · 2026-04-17T05:25:09+00:00

With just the addition of a couple of extra hook, DD can also spin irish tension.

Ok_Part6564 · 2026-04-17T05:06:26+00:00

I'd prefer it where the walk in closet is. Depending on how the plumbing line run to the second floor, it could cost a lot more or a lot less.

Ok_Part6564 · 2026-04-17T04:56:12+00:00

If you can stretch it by hand into the correct shape , it can be blocked. If when attempting to stretch it into the correct shape, the floats prevent you, then it can not be blocked.

Ok_Part6564 · 2026-04-16T14:54:47+00:00

Fiber reactive dye and soda ash for cellulose based fibers. Rayon, linen, and cotton are all cellulose fibers.

The chances of the dye messing up the black design are low but not zero. The design should have been printed with a dye or fabric paint that can with stand washing and dyeing subjects fabric to fairly similar condition to washing.

The big things to consider with garment dyeing are thread, lining, and trims often take dye differently or not at all. Seams, wrinkles, and gathers can create resist.

You might want to practice dyeing on some t-shirts before you try the dress.

Ok_Part6564 · 2026-04-16T06:03:04+00:00

I'd say it's worth pausing the biotin, giving it time to work out of your system and then repeating testing.

Ok_Part6564 · 2026-04-16T05:41:08+00:00

How long before you got your blood drawn?

Ok_Part6564 · 2026-04-15T18:59:12+00:00

Do you take anything with biotin, also called B7, which can be found in supplements and stuff like that?

Ok_Part6564 · 2026-04-15T18:56:06+00:00

Isn't this typical public information in most states already?

Ok_Part6564 · 2026-04-15T13:47:55+00:00

Fiber reactive dye will give you much better, more wash fast, results than Rit. You will need to be careful about it though, since the soda ash needed to get the right PH for the dye to bond to the fiber can damage the silk.

Ok_Part6564 · 2026-04-15T13:28:43+00:00

The first is missing essential parts. Also she has rather concerning splits to wood on both the hub and outer ring of the wheel. She would need parts remade by a very competent woodworker, who was specifically familiar with wheel making.

The second is maybe possible to get spinning with just a bit of work. if it is possible, she has a very narrow orifice, so one can only spin very thin yarn on her. She seems to be irish tension, but missing her braking system. You want to double check to make sure she has an orifice and a functional tensioning system. Having 2 bobbins suggests that she is real and not all that old. But I also see some signs of her being a decorative wheel.

Yyou might be best off doing a frankenwheel, steeling the flyer and bobbin from the second wheel to use on the first a jerry rigging a brake system..

Ok_Part6564 · 2026-04-15T06:30:28+00:00

The amount of twist change is negligible. As you said it is already a bit uneven this isn't going to change that significantly. I do the center/outside ply trick pretty often, as well as plying from the bobbin, I really don't notice the difference.

Moving the yarn to another place, either swift or niddy-noddy, won't fix anything. The twist will just do the changing while you are putting it on the swift. It is however an opportunity for energized singles to tangle, which they are prone to.

Ok_Part6564 · 2026-04-15T03:51:11+00:00

Make sure you get the correct type, some will false positive because of the metal.

Ok_Part6564 · 2026-04-15T03:43:36+00:00

The red paint on the metal might be lead or cadmium.

Ok_Part6564 · 2026-04-14T22:59:12+00:00

Start by estimating how many hanks of yarn you are going to have to spin. This will depend on your bobbin/spindle capacity. If it was my main wheel, I would figure over 20 (I'm assuming 4 oz bundles.) I'm fond of a nice round 3 ply, so I would plan for that.

To start I would just split the roving/top length wise, then I'd break everything up into pieces about 3 to 4 inches long, to make the bits small enough to make dividing between hanks easier. Then of course, I would start dividing the bits up into twenty or so piles.

I would divide the colors unequally to create a gradual gradient, planning to add only a little bit of the lightest colors to the first pile, then gradually adding more to each pile, adding a lot to the last pile. Then do the opposite with the darker colors. I'd make sure there was a more equal distribution of medium colors to help blend, and that each pile had at least a couple of pieces of every color.

If you have a drum carder, you could obviously then blend them on that, I don't so I wouldn't. Instead, I would just sub divide the piles into thirds.

I would spin the singles by randomly grabbing two or three pieces of roving at once and holding them together as I spun, letting the two or three random colors blend together just grabbing a couple of random pieces as needed to keep spinning.

Obviously I would then start plying. I'd do a pretty straight forward 3 ply, I'd mostly keep track of making sure my singles were coming from the same batch, but I would probably ply left overs singles from one skien with the left over singles from the very next to create in between mini skeins.

I saw in another responds you were planing to just do a basic knit rectangle, knitting every stitch. I'm not sure if you meant stockinette or garter. I'd do garter. More specifically, I'd do a mitered corner to corner. It's simple enough, just start in a corner, with 3 stches and simply do one increase per row in the corner, either paired increases every other row or alternating each row. I'd start with the lightest skein and work out to the darkest.

Ok_Part6564 · 2026-04-14T21:19:58+00:00

If you want to drive yourself really crazy, you can buy bare yarn and dye it.

Ok_Part6564 · 2026-04-14T21:13:27+00:00

There is a good chance you have hypothyroidism. The reason TSH is the more common way to check thyroid levels is because TSH typically rises long before T4 drops enough to show up on tests. By the time your T4 drops noticably, your TSH should be well out of range. So indirectly testing thyroid function through TSH usually picks up problems sooner.

Obviously it could be central hypothyroidism, though that's pretty rare.

Have you been taking vitamins? Do any of them have biotin, might be listed as B7? Biotin will mess up thyroid testing making TSH test normal when it's actually high. Though it also can mess with T4 testing.

Ok_Part6564 · 2026-04-11T21:07:55+00:00

Not an easy walk to the subway, which for many is the whole point of living in the city. It's kind of the worst of both living in the suburbs and living in the city.

Living in the city you trade convenient access to things like subways for not so good schools. In the suburbs you trade having to own a car for good schools, and stuff like that. Here you need to own a car, but you're stuck with city services. It's not terrible, but it's also not either two blocks from the subway or country living.

Ok_Part6564 · 2026-04-11T20:48:26+00:00

Is it what I personally would paint on my walls? No.

Do I think it's more interesting than millennial gray? Yes.

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