bertiedog
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@stetson28 After many months taking the Cowden herbs I think I did get benefits because my ability to walk daily really improved and for well over the past year and a half I have managed an average of 8300 steps daily. Before the herbs it was a lot lower, more like an average of 6500 or less. This past week I have been doing 9000 steps or more daily.
Last winter I had a terrible time with my immune system. I kept picking up viruses and infections mostly in my throat but having my normal dose of thyroxine taken away from me by an Endocrinologist that I saw last November was the reason this happened I believe because physically I began to suffer within a month of stopping just 0.25 mcg thyroxine. (The Endo reckoned I was on too much thyroid medication going by the tick box chart they use in our NHS depending on your BMI).
I was off it for nearly 8 weeks and this was sufficient for not only my energy and nervous system to be hit but also my immune system. It has taken until late Spring for me to get back to where I was before all this happened. I did stay on my normal 2 grains of dessicated thyroid medication and nothing else was changed so it was quite unexpected that the withdrawal of that tiny bit of thyroxine had such a profoundly negative effect on my health. Thankfully the way I was feeling was reflected in my blood tests with the level of T4 dropping from 14.7 to 8 in just 7 weeks. Once I got the blood test results I restarted the thyroxine but as mentioned above it took many months for things to improve and I have also needed weekly acupuncture sessions to start feeling very well again.
Migraines still plague me but the Acupuncture helps with those too.
I actually don't think that Lyme is an issue for me and to be honest I am not convinced it ever was but I definitely had lots of issues with viruses which was also reflected in blood tests about 4 or 5 years ago.
Pam
Last winter I had a terrible time with my immune system. I kept picking up viruses and infections mostly in my throat but having my normal dose of thyroxine taken away from me by an Endocrinologist that I saw last November was the reason this happened I believe because physically I began to suffer within a month of stopping just 0.25 mcg thyroxine. (The Endo reckoned I was on too much thyroid medication going by the tick box chart they use in our NHS depending on your BMI).
I was off it for nearly 8 weeks and this was sufficient for not only my energy and nervous system to be hit but also my immune system. It has taken until late Spring for me to get back to where I was before all this happened. I did stay on my normal 2 grains of dessicated thyroid medication and nothing else was changed so it was quite unexpected that the withdrawal of that tiny bit of thyroxine had such a profoundly negative effect on my health. Thankfully the way I was feeling was reflected in my blood tests with the level of T4 dropping from 14.7 to 8 in just 7 weeks. Once I got the blood test results I restarted the thyroxine but as mentioned above it took many months for things to improve and I have also needed weekly acupuncture sessions to start feeling very well again.
Migraines still plague me but the Acupuncture helps with those too.
I actually don't think that Lyme is an issue for me and to be honest I am not convinced it ever was but I definitely had lots of issues with viruses which was also reflected in blood tests about 4 or 5 years ago.
Pam