Hashimoto's and Getting On With Life
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 มี.ค. 2018
- Today I talk about not feeling well and I start to sow seeds in the greenhouse.
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My Aunt got diagnose d with Hashimoto when she was in her 40s. She was addicted to sugar and would eat a can of sweetened condensed milk at a time lol - legend. Her baking was amazing. Brownies to die for. She nearly died from this before they found the problem. She died last year at age 93! This thing can be overcome for sure.
You are an inspiration. I love starting my day with you and Mr. J. Thanks for all you do.
I hope you feel better soon! Looking forward to the baby ducks! Say Hi to Mr. J for us.
Fingers crossed for ducklings. ( sending positive hippie vibes even if you don’t ant them)
Planting seeds is always a healing activity rest now and have a cup of tea. Mothballs help keep cats off.
Take care Liz.
Loving your channel
You still make me smile even when you feel like poo! Hope your getting on well now and look forward to the new batch of duck eggs. That’s the one critter I’ve yet to raise. Those and goats. I may try ducks for the slug control in the garden and for harvesting for meat but not sure I will go for the goats. Hahah.
Ducks are great for slug and snail control as long as you can keep them off your plants, because they will control those too! Our first girl was particularly partial to the young growth of onions. Two years in a row she managed to get into the veg garden and eat all the onion tops. She is no longer with us (she broke her hip in December) and I will miss the jovial frustration of Mrs Warne eating the onions again. We don't want goats here, mainly because we don't have the infrastructure for them, but also I'm not sure what we'd do with them. I'd rather have sheep to keep the grass down as I like lamb, hogget and mutton.
Well...we love you and are praying for you even if you don't want us to.
You deal with it very well xxx
Mrs Hurried Mum See you tomorrow!
well done getting your seeds started.. and thanks for the tip about grit on the top... take it easy.. enjoy the sunn
Sending prayers and glad you got some of your seeds started best wishes on the new duck eggs .God Bless Liz
Hope you feel better soon & good for you deciding to do some seeding. You can always try to place a bit of chicken wire on top of the tray to keep the cats off o.- My cat enjoyed laying in my window boxes...and pooping in my compost garden beds too... lol I feel as though either I plant roses with thorns in those boxes... or put an uncomfortable barrier around :)
The chicken wire over the top is exactly what I did! Then I firmly shut the door because the cold weather was coming. Monty is not very impressed with this, but as soon as it's warmer the door can be opened and I'll need the chicken wire covering.
Hang in there! Keep up the daily!! You are an inspiration Liz!
Sending prayers your way. Happy for you that you got seeds planted. Spring is on its way. Good luck on these eggs. Glad your feeling better.
👍 I have hashi's too and honestly didn't know the icky painful spells was related to hashi's. I drink green tea w/turmeric, ginger, honey and coconut oil (originally for goiter, that did get better) and thankfully the painful days/spells are far and few between.
Hi, yes luckily my painful days are few and far between too, I'm always a bit surprised when they hit.
Praying you will continue to improve! Rest when you can - ❤️💐
Sorry you have not been feeling well!
Thank you Shirley!
Keep well. We set 42 chicken eggs yesterday.
Oooh, what breeds have you set?
This set is with Silverlaced Wyandotte roosters and Columbia Rock, Reds, Buff Orpington, Airacana and Jersey Giant hens. Will put Columbia Rock, airacana and Buff Orpington hens with their rooster in April for my May hatch.
Those sneaky attacks are the worst! I am sorry friend! You look beautiful!! Good luck on the ducks!!!
Well done handling the ickiness of Hashi's! It is what it is. Sorry about the low percentage on the candling. Hopefully this batch will give you more to work with!
Hope you level out soon and feel better. Good luck with the next batch of eggs.
Hope you feel much better tomorrow, Liz😘
Thanks for sharing this. Best wishes.
Feel better sweet lady. Being in pain stinks for sure.
~Vicki~
Bless your heart 🐓🐓🐓🐓...... Glad you are feeling better!! I'm starting seeds today, thanx for the tip about covering them!! So sorry about the duck eggs, hope the next round is better!!
Liz, I'm so sorry at your comment about not wanting get well's or prayers or kind sentiment from your viewers. As we are a world away (many of us) and you wouldn't want us on your doorstep in any case...our words and affection and cyber hugs and love is all we can give. And it is I dare say a valuable thing in that it shows that you are held in high esteem. I imagine that your comment is triggered by the fact that you are one of those people who goes into a cave (figuratively speaking of course) to heal. Don't let this desire make you block people out. I'm just stubborn enough to send you love and good wishes inspite of what you said! And I'm so so happy that you got seeds planted! That's a good medicine on any day! Cyber hugs for one of my favorite TH-camrs!
Dolly, my main reasons for not wanting them is that I am trying hard to not acknowledge too much how I feel and that it's only a couple of weeks ago that I received lots and lots of well wishes about the cold that I had. I am certainly not shutting people out, but I do find it slightly embarrassing to be poorly again so soon after the cold. Thank you for the love, good wishes and cyber hugs, they are enjoyed and much appreciated.
Liz, You're not "Bad" when you're sick anymore than you are "Good" when you are well! Open your heart to the love and shut out all the critism! Only positive love allowed for you! (I hope I"m in that catagory LOL )
Thank you :-)
Suzy Cohen on utube has a 2part vid in what drives hashimoto's . maybe it can help?
Hoping for a speedy recovery Liz!! I suffered with a thyroid condition called Graves disease as well! It can be very disruptive to deal with! Much Love! ❤
Hi April, I think Graves is the opposite side of the spectrum to hypothyroidism, where your thyroid is over active (is that right?), I gather it's almost more of a problem than being underactive. Are you on meds? Is it under control?
Liz Zorab - Byther Farm Yes, you're right Liz. Graves is over production of the thyroid. It has several symptoms including palpitations, lots of energy, sweats, irritability and others. Those are the symptoms I had. I had an operation to remove 80% of my thyroid gland at 26. It's kept my disease under control for 20 years, although I am starting to have issues again. My thyroid gland continued to regrow and currently i have large goiters pressing on my esophagus.
Well that's no fun April! Will the docs be able to sort the goiters?
Liz Zorab - Byther Farm Well, that's the sticky part. I have no health insurance. So until the goiters cause issues with my breathing I have to endure them. It has to be a life or death situation before they'll operate. Give thanks for the National Health! They may have issues but y'all are luckier than American's by a mile!
Oh, I am *_so_* very sorry you are going through this.
I, too, have\had Hashimoto's. It went undiagnosed for at least 18 years, and turned into goiter. My thyroid was removed about a decade ago, and it's been a nightmare ever since. I just got a new doctor who cut my thyroid hormones by 1/3 in December; now I am ballooning up, gaining weight, lack energy, can't catch my breath, and feel just awful. They never test all the hormone levels, just TSH. Life is miserable at the moment.
However, you have inspired me to make an appointment for next Monday with my doctor. Thank you for that.
My peas are coming up, but none of the lettuces or other cold hardy seeds I planted in January have - but I haven't planted anything since. I need to get cracking.
Sorry you aren't well. I definitely understand. I have fibromyalgia and people thing I'm crazy when I tell them my hair hurts. Isn't it odd what can hurt when you have a chronic pain condition? Also I saw that you're in Monmouthshire!!! How cool. We'll be retiring in the valleys below Brecon Beakons so I'm excited to see gardening in the area I'll be in! Though I won't be homesteading, I still hope to have a nice back garden where I can have at least a kitchen garden along with room for my pups. Love to you from south Texas US (for now).
Oooh Kim, that's exciting to be moving to the beautiful valleys. It's going to be a big, big change from Texas!
I know! I'm so excited. We have 4 years as his daughter wants to finish school here and go to uni in Wales. I really think the cooler weather and the food quality (here in the US they allow so many chemicals to go into our food and organic is double and triple the cost of conventional) will really help with my fibro. I'm so ready to go. Texas is lovely but it's HOT!
had a huge Angina attack at the weekend, scary couple of days, but footering with meds now better, take care and get yourself off to the Gp
Make sure to check your free T3 and reverse T3...you may need some extra because you may not be converting your Levo into T3...this conversion happens in the Liver. You may consider a Liver cleanse with milk thistle.
Thank you Elizabeth, yes I'm going to be asking for a full bloods test because something was definitely amiss. I'll have a read up about Milk Thistle, thanks for pointing me in it's direction.
Sorry you are having a rough few days. Let us know how the blood test goes. Great idea about using the grit to deter critters from your seeds. Good luck with the new duck eggs. Prayers for you and all of us that need encouragement with our health.
Got some rubbish of my own that wipes me out. I find veg gardening very therapeutic. Bit further north than you but need to get cabbage kale sprouts in after next cold snap due this weekend. Sounds like the right decision about the eggs.
Give yourself over to it when you feel rubbish. And come out the other side.
My heart to yours.
I crashed yesterday after a beautiful week of travel for a son's wedding, getting married ourselves, and getting some chicks for our flock, as well as the not so wonderful time of falling and breaking my elbow!
Baby steps are still momentum!
I'll be *slowly and carefully* planting for a couple of days until the rain comes.
Be well, my friend!
Congrats and CONGRATS!! (many exclamation marks ) That's fantastic news. Ooh new chicks, what breed are they and oh no! I hope you elbow starts to heal and stops hurting very soon. Ouch!
Just got 2 leghorns and 2 black sex links. Last year my daughter gave me 6 hatching eggs, 3 of which developed. Then I incubated 4 more, 2 of which gave me chicks.
Unfortunately, I got 4 roos and 1 hen. Lol.
The 2 big boys are going to freezer camp, and one of the smaller will join them soon.
The chicks are all pullets (I hope!), so EGGS!
I'm slowly growing my flock, and have nearly convinced Mr. B that we need a meat flock.
The elbow is not a bad break, and my lupus made is swell long enough to set it quickly, so no cast.
Thank you for the congrats!
Mikayla, That sounds like my luck. Last year I got 9 straight run chicks. 8 of which turned out to be roos :(
Dolly, are straight run ones that haven't been sexed yet?
That is correct :)
Sounds like it's time to grab a good book and read till its end. Shame about the duck eggs but it sounds like you were prepared. Take it easy. Thanks from Australia 🐨🐨
No fuss ..just well done you for coping and glad youre feeling better
Thanks Alan, onward and upward!
Glad you are feeling better, and hope you continue to improve. A quick question about the the grit that you are using to cover the compost media in your seed trays: will you be removing the grit once you plant out your seedlings, or just leaving it?
I will leave it where it is, I think picking it off would take way too much time and it will just become incorporated into the soil in the raised beds.
I have underactive thyroid ISM and have been taking medication since I was a baby, and will be with me for the rest of my life, I know hashimoto's is something to do with the immune system if your thyroid levels are not correct, are you on any medication, levothyroxine? I take 100mg a day. and have regular blood tests.
anyway just take it easy and rest up.
Gardening with AJ Hi, yes I’m on Levi too. Was on 150 last summer and the docs dropped it to 100 in late autumn/ early winter. Possibly I need to go up a little for a while again. But yay! I started the seed sowing :-)
Liz Zorab - Byther Farm congratulations on getting some seeds in, it is getting mild now so hopefully we can start planting out in a month or two time.
Have you tried diatemaceous earth (I know the spelling is wrong) for slugs?
I have tried it on brassicas to deter pests, but it's so wet here and the slugs are so huge that they just slime on over the DE like it's nothing to worry them - bad slugs!
Sorry you aren't feeling well and happy you got your seeds planted. My 16 yo daughter was diagnosed with Hashimoto's back in August and we still can not get her meds right. My husband, one son and other daughter all have it as well but it seems well controlled with their meds, but for some reason my 16 yo is really struggling. She definitely got hit the youngest and the hardest with it. One reason why I want to start gardening is that I want cleaner food. I so suspect modern food is messing with our health in so many ways. Right now my daughter is on a gluten, diary and soy free diet. It is really hard and doesn't help with her depression that whenever she goes out with her friends she can't eat pizza or what have you with them. For 16 yo old girls, hanging out with your friends is so important! Anyway, this is just to say that I understand how tough Hashimoto's can be!
Hi Faith, it took about 2 and half years for my meds to get sorted to a stable level (and that was in December - just 3 months ago). Sorry to read that your daughter is having a tough time with it, hashimoto's can be a stinker!
Faith R - there is a pizza crust made with oil, baking powder & ground quinoa or buckwheat. Oh pinch of salt. She can make it at home & have her friends over. It can be made light & chewy with wait time 15 minutes before baking & crunchy crust if put in oven immediately.
New subscriber here! Can I ask... do you take anything when you suffer from pain. I have fibromyalgia and some of the symptoms are very similar. Thank you and take care!
Hello Tracy and welcome, I do take painkillers but I tend to wait throughout the day and take ibuprofen or paracetamol before I go to bed (because pain always seems to be worse at night). I don't take anything stronger than I really, really need to because I don't want to build a resistance to pain meds.
Liz Zorab - Byther Farm
Thank you for your reply😊..That is usually my regimen as well.. just always trying to see if there is anything out there I haven't tried yet.. I look forward to your future vlogs!
I don’t know what hashimotos is
It's an autoimmune condition that attacks the thyroid in particular and gives each person with it a different set of symptoms, but they usually include brain fog, fatigue, pain, cramps, hair loss, cold intolerance, heat intolerance, tiredness, depression.... the list goes on and on.