Five reasons why being hypo is great!

[TamraW]

1. Hair is overrated.
2. Nothing beats the taste of gritty orange Metamucil.
3. Gotta love those mid-day naps.
4. I've always wanted to try the jumbo, super-absorbent maxi pads.
5. I have a good excuse for the extra 10-20 pounds.

Can you come up with five more???
Tamra

[skeeterknitwit]

6. You are allowed to use your whiniest voice to say, "I have a hooooormone imbalance and a glaaaaandular problem."  And it is the truth.

7. You realize that the weight gain actually plumped out the wrinkles in your face.

8.  You get to visit with your favorite pharmacist each month.

[gimel]

A good excuse to communicate with and get to know the nice people on this Forum.

[JenW73]

9.  Family and loved-ones will wait on you hand and foot because you're terribly fatigued and emotional

[Marpo1]

1.  Good excuse not to go to a family function
2.  Good excuse to tell off the sister that does NOT think there is anything
     wrong with you
3.  Didn't want to do the dish's tonight anyway
4.   I am really to tired for company (besides my favorite show is on)
5.  I finely have something to blame Everything on

[MANmom]

1.My favorite, my husband likes that those 15 extra pounds seem to have gone mostly to my breasts!
2. Great excuse to go out for dinner.
3. My house of three boys and hubby don't tell me to change that "chick flick" that I was watching!
4. Husband doesn't complain as much about the pile of laundry that needs to be folded.
5. I need to go shopping - nothing I have fits because of those extra 15 pounds!

[ChitChatNine]

1. You are COLD in the middle of the Summer!

2.  You can gain pounds AND have an excuse!

[TamraW]

These are great. Keep 'em coming.

Manmom, my breasts grew, too. Is that why? I thought they just never shrunk after breastfeeding. One 'for real' great thing about being hypo!

Yes, Jen, family does wait on you. Hubby mopped the floors yesterday!

Tamra

[Barb135]

The only thing I can think of is:  

I can blame these achy bones and joints on being hypo instead of my age..............

AND I'm jealous of you guys - MY husband doesn't wait on me hand and foot - in fact, he doesn't understand why I should feel so badly............ nor can he understand why I'm cold when it's 90 degrees outside --------- even after I've told him 100 times that's one of the symptoms of thyroid disease....... I've been wondering if I should laminate a list of hypo symptoms and make a necklace out of it for him wear around his neck - then when he wants to know why something is happening - I can just point to the list, without having to go through the whole thing about thyroid issues..........lol
He's really a dear sweet man - it's just that he seems to think like some of our doctors - first, they don't realize how badly we really feel, and second - they figure "you're taking the med - you should be fine and happy"..........................

[ChitChatNine]

My ankle problem they blamed on hypo/thyroid issues for a good 8 mos and it was ME who said I don't think so .. saw an Orthopedist and it is a severe tibial tendonitis arthritis problem and NOTHING to do with Hypo.   So much for the sore joints and hypo hypothesis they strung me along on for about 8 mos.  The MRI was awful .. showed chronic inflammation 1/2way up my leg.  Oh well .. that was in 2007 .. I'm managing with it .. in pain all the time, but could be worse.  My Vit D was so low that the aches/pains from that come and go, too .. right when ready to take my next supplement at the end of the week.

Fun gracefully aging, eh?!

[redheadaussie]

Hee hee...very funny!

1. My cats enjoy my larger body warmth.
2. Having less hair means whipping into a ponytail takes no time at all!
3. Who says Siestas are only a Mexican thing!
4. Having a glass of wine goes straight to my head, saves me money!
5. I get to use the  excuse for not going out for one week a month..."It's really heavy this month, I couldn't possibly go out for lunch/dinner/movies/picnic/shopping/flirting/whatever."

[Flys4Food]

1. When my wife says No; I have a headache.......I don't care because I now have a   hypo libido!!

[TamraW]

I have read before that hypo causes tendonitis. I have had tendonitis in my ankle for 20 years. Now, I have it in both ankles.

:) Tamar

[TamraW]

My hubby knows I'm really sick, but now I think he's tired of me rehashing my symptoms and complaining. He is always trying to change the subject when I talk about my thyroid. I have to try to be more positive around him. That's one reason why I joined this group. I know everyone here won't get sick of my complaints.

:) Tamra

[TamraW]

One more reason...

6. You can become a certified 'internet' endocrinologist.

[Smilerdeb]

Boy..you got that one right Tam lol !
I know more about the medical side of things than life itself!

Even working in a High Care Dementia Nursing Home was great as I didnt feel 'out of place ' when Brain fog hit lol :)

[Tonya53]

Before I was diagnozed my daughter just thought I was fat and lazy.
I wondered why I was going into such deep sleeps all the time and the brain fog was imbarresing in Sunday school because I would start to talk and the go blank.I was getting some very strange looks.I could barely walk,I think I had had hasi for at least 6 years before I really got bad.My hair is thin,I am losing weight,my eyelids swell sometimes and I do not know what to eat so I am living on oysters and potato chips.
My dogs love me and they love to sleep as much as I do..BTW ya'll are very funny:)
Made my day.

[stella5349]

1. You can have an excuse to kick back on the couch and not feel guilty.

2. Craving starch and sugar is OK with it

3. Flare ups of intolerable anger at the drop of a hat can be excused by saying: "It's MY thyroid making me like this!"

4. Being a scatter brain is acceptable

[stella5349]

I'm love'n the "internet endo" comment .....

so true to a degree :)

[Cherie762]

OMG I am truely laughing out loud true and so very funny!

[ChitChatNine]

Certified Internet Endo  ='s  C.I.E. degree

That's like my M.O.M Degree:  Mother of Medicine

Keep 'em coming .. these are too funny!

[6hashi]

hello ,
You behave feel and look in a way that keeps the evil eye away from you !

[TamraW]

I am a graphic designer by trade. I think I will have to design a 'Certified Internet Endocrinologist' diploma and post it in my photos.  I will leave the name blank, so you can print it at home and write in your name.

This will be fun.

:) Tamra

[redheadaussie]

Yes, I already have one which was actually given to me by my a doctor. He, with regal arm waving, pronounced me;- "Armchair Internet Doctor"
I, of course, took this admirable comment with the flattery it deserved...by slamming his door on my way out!

Tamra.. I want the first one! So I can go back and say..SEE! I really am a professional now!

[TamraW]

I have uploaded the diploma to my photo folder.
:) Tamra