What shall we have for dinner? Isn’t it annoying when you’re told to eat more or less of something without first being asked how much, or how little, you actually eat? I’m sure that we’ve all had doctors tell us to ‘eat less and exercise more’ when it’s a question of our hypo weight-gain, without […]

Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear. Does it ever get any better? Nobody could possibly say that I’m Under-treated now – I treat myself! But, the hypo rage still keeps rearing its ugly head. There was an ambulance in the street, just past my house. One-way, narrow street. Nobody could over-take, so a long line […]

Hi Everybody – or Anybody – or whatever… I haven’t posted in a long, long time. 2013 was not a fun time for me, and I really didn’t find much to laugh about. Now, I’m trying hard to put all that behind me and regain my sense of humour – after all, it’s about all […]

I’m not American, and my nationality is irrelevant, thyroid disease – and the under-treatment of it – is a world-wide problem. From what I’ve seen there’s not much difference in doctors from one country to the next because all of them, in one way or another, unfortunately, are influenced by what happens in America. So, […]

Has been to the hairdresser’s! And had her hair cut to within an inch of its life. The shortest I have ever had it. But it looked good, I felt good, when I left, and there was a spring in my step as I headed for the supermarket. Strangely, for a Thursday, the shop was […]

Not everything in life – not even my life – is controlled by the Thyroid Gland. Sometimes, things just happen… I was sitting at my computer the other day, listening to the BBC and playing a silly game where you have to shoot balls at other balls and… when the doorbell rang. As is my […]

The irony is that when I chose my 1st floor duplex, I chose it because I thought the stairs would keep me fit. I was so naïve in those days, just after my diagnosis of Hash’s. Little did I know that I could run up and down those stairs all day long (had I been […]

Doctors say many things to us – stupid, rude, etc – for which we would like to smack them round the chops. Unfortunately, that is not allowed. We would like, therefore, to be able to come back at them with a witty, snappy… comeback, to put them in their place. This is rarely possible, due […]

Short, blond, mid-thirties and oh-so-obviously middle-class, this woman had no idea what real life was all about. I first met her when I went into hospital for an operation on a slipped disc that I didn’t have (more about that some other time.) I won’t go into all the details of how rude, silly and […]

And talking of teeth, as I said, they need thyroid hormone as much as the rest of the body. So, having been low on thyroid hormone all my life, it’s not surprising I’ve had trouble with my teeth all my life. I started having fillings very early on. And, no, it wasn’t too many sweets, […]