Thyroid Health -- Check-up time!

I know it's been a while since I have been here. Just let life get in the way again (nothing too abnormal for me...).

I went to the doctor again to have a general check-up. Meaning the yearly female exam, blood drawn and check on my thyroid health as well as others. I got great news! Not only have I lost weight but the cholesterol (both kinds) and the thyriod are looking great! When you take your bad cholesterol reading and divide it by your good cholesterol reading, the number you get rates your cardiac risk. The bigger the number, the lower the risk. Mine was a 7.2 meaning that I have even less cardiac risk than the average person. :)

The thyroid levels have improved and I am now on 175 mcg -- down from previously being on 200 mcg. Love it! Still am trying to convince my doctor to let me go on Armour thyroid (natural thyroid). That is taking longer than I anticipated...but still trying.

As an update with taking the medicine everyday...I am doing MUCH better -- hey I have to be or the levels I am taking wouldn't have been reduced. :) It's still a work-in-progress...but who isn't?

Weight loss -- what a trip. I have needed to drop 45 lbs. forever (or at least since I started fighting my thyroid). I have not been exercising as much as I originally wanted to...in fact the one positive has been that I do exercise 3 times a week for about 35 minutes. And evidentally it has been enough because I have lost 20 more lbs. since my last post! I am now about 10-15 lbs. away from goal and I am feeling great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) Sorry about that. :) Here is a link to what I have been doing about the eating part of the equation (sorry -- I am a math nerd so I had to use math terminology). :) And as for the exercise, the main activities I do, I found here.

Talk at you later! :)
[sooner rather than later -- I promise!]

~Brownie

P.S. If working at home sounds like something you are interested in, please take a look at one of the things I do at the website here.

Thyroid Health