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Hashimoto’s

How The Endocrine System Works Together

The endocrine system is made up of glands that produce and secrete hormones. These hormones regulate…

My Second Endocrinologist Appointment

I’ve just got back from my second appointment with the endocrinologist. If you remember the first one,…

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🙆‍♀️ Hands up if you relate. 🦋 I must

🙆‍♀️ Hands up if you relate.

🦋 I must be honest and say this: I didn’t know, understand or appreciate this before I was diagnosed with a chronic condition and took years to get back to good health.

🦋 But when you DO get back to a place of good health? Oh my goodness it’s so worth it.

💔 Recovering your health can be slow going, fitting, confusing, lonely, and anything but linear. Thyroid flares still happen for all of us from time to time.

💔 Please don’t give up.

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👇 Let me know your experiences with this in the comments and as always, follow me for more thyroid info and please check out the resources linked in my bio for more support! It’s all a big jigsaw puzzle but I’m here to help.

- Rachel Hill, Thyroid Patient Advocate 🦋💙

💥Do you JUMP at loud noises? 🥱Do you wake u

💥Do you JUMP at loud noises?

🥱Do you wake up tired despite a lot of sleep?

💤 Do you have on going fatigue?

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🦋 Adrenal dysfunction (hypothalamic-pituitary axis dysfunction) may be common in those with thyroid issues.

🦋 The adrenal glands, which sit atop the kidneys, are responsible for producing hormones in relation to stress and the one concerned in adrenal fatigue in cortisol. If cortisol levels are out of rhythm, this can cause a whole load of symptoms.

🎢 The slope of cortisol, which we typically see at its highest first thing in the morning and gradually dropping down over the course of the day, can be disrupted when we are chronically stressed.

🎢 Chronic stress may alter this ideal slope of high cortisol in the morning and decreasing throughout the day, to:

• low cortisol all day
• high cortisol all day
• low cortisol in the morning and high cortisol at night

🎢 Our bodies can respond very interestingly to stress by causing an alteration in this cortisol slope, and this is what we refer to as adrenal dysfunction.

🦋 Sleep issues, fatigue, anxiety, jumping at loud noises, craving salty food, weight gain, dizziness, fatigue after exercise and many more symptoms may come from this.

🦋 I completed a 4-point saliva test a few years ago to check for adrenal issues and discovered that my cortisol was high all day long, contributing to symptoms of fatigue, struggling to sleep (feeling tired but wired), anxiety, hitting a slump in the afternoon, hot flushes, a weakened immune system and more.

🦋 I addressed the adrenal issues and brought cortisol levels back to normal and felt a whole lot better.

🦋 Adrenal dysfunction can make mornings incredibly difficult, with dizziness, nausea and fatigue beyond words.

🧩 I always talk about living well with hypo & Hashi’s as requiring slotting into place several jigsaw puzzle pieces. Adrenal health is often one of these.

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📖 My book “Be Your Own Thyroid Advocate” covers this in detail as well as those other jigsaw puzzle pieces

👇 Do you have any of these symptoms? What has helped you? Please share in the comments so we can all learn from each other.

- Rachel Hill, Thyroid Patient Advocate 🦋💙

“At least it’s the good cancer.” Why have s

“At least it’s the good cancer.”

Why have so many people heard this?!

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❗️One of the ways in which people can become hypothyroid is for treatment of thyroid cancer.

❗️Every year, September is Thyroid Cancer Awareness Month.

❗️This annual event was created to spread awareness of the symptoms and effects of thyroid cancer and the importance of early diagnosis and treatment. There are a lot of misconceptions surrounding thyroid disease, and thyroid cancer is no different!

❗️Just because it has a high five year survival rate, and is usually very treatable, does not invalidate how hard it is for someone to go through. Cancer is cancer.

❗️Treatment can be really tough, and then starting thyroid hormone replacement medication afterwards and taking a while to optimise treatment is another, separate struggle for many.

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💌 Share this post to your stories and with your loved ones to raise awareness!

👇 Let me know your experiences with this in the comments and as always, follow me for more thyroid info and please check out the resources linked in my bio for more support!

- Rachel Hill, Thyroid Patient Advocate 🦋💙

🥱 Do you find mornings hard? 😔 In my worst

🥱 Do you find mornings hard?

😔 In my worst days, I would wake up feeling very fatigued, achey and brain fogged. I would feel nauseous and sweaty. Like I had the flu or a bug.

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❤️‍🩹 Getting ready for work (showered, dressed) was hard but walking to work was even harder.

❤️‍🩹 Even sitting at a desk in an office job was difficult some days, so I applaud anyone who works a more manual and active job with a thyroid condition.

❤️‍🩹 But many of us wade through the fog and do the best we can without other people knowing the struggle.

❤️‍🩹 If you’re battling your hypo symptoms this Thursday morning, feel free to share and vent below. Others may not, but I and our thyroid family here believe and understand you.

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👇 Comment “MORNINGS” below and I’ll send you my article about boosting energy in the mornings with thyroid disease. Our morning routine is such a big puzzle piece. 🧩

- Rachel Hill, Thyroid Patient Advocate 🦋💙

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