Rachel L McManus

  As I started on my thyroid journey, I honestly didn't believe I would feel any better. There I said it! I was a complete skeptic, that I would ever feel any better. I didn't think the brain fog would leave me. I didn't think that my symptoms would stop or diminish. While they haven't gone completely away, I am still in the newness phases of this journey and its been enough of a difference to want to tell everyone about it. That nurse I told you about in the first blog, had a lot of holistic knowledge. He didn't have to think about what he was saying, he just knew the research he had done. He had tried it for his mom and it made a huge difference in her life he said. She was hypothyroid and had tried it and it worked for her. He suggested ordering Nascent Iodine and Selenium. The Iodine comes in a dropper bottle and you literally add one drop to a small cup of water. I took the Selenium at the same time, and chased it all with orange juice and my NP thyroid pill...

   I got diagnosed 4 years ago with Hypothyroidism and Iron Deficiency Anemia. The past 4 years has been a huge struggle for me to deal with all the symptoms associated with these 2 things. People think that if you take a pill all those symptoms go away. I thought this. I thought I would take the pill, let it get into my system and then the weight that I gained because of it would just melt away as fast as it came and my memory would be immediately restored. What a joke! It just didn't happen like that at all. It still is something I deal with, but thankfully after taking my own health into my own hands I am finally getting results. Let me start at the beginning of this journey and tell you the background.    Hypothyroidism runs in my family. That doesn't mean everyone will get it though. I spent my whole life being thin. Had myself a nice curvy but thin figure. Until about 38 years of age. Suddenly I had memory problems and thinking problems. I gained 20 pounds in...