Chinese Herbs Gots Balls!

It was about a week ago that I went back to my Cool Acupuncture Guy and said, "Hey, I feel like crap again, what do I do?"

Before that, I had been off of ANY thyroid medication for a month or so. After a week I have started to feel much better. CAG actually said it was fine to let my body detox from the fake hormone I was taking. Here is what I'm doing right now:

*Still not eating wheat, corn, and minimizing how much milk, soy, eggs, and peanuts I eat. I had some tomatoes and things were surprisingly fine, a little of milk didn't hurt, and neither did a tiny bit of soy.

*Juicing/Blending up a bunch of good things! We have started throwing things like kale, cucumber, celery, radishes, and fruits into a blender and just drinking it. Sometimes it tastes amazing (and I write down the concoction) and sometimes it tastes just okay. But I know that both DH and I feel great with so many veggies in our bodies.

 *I take Thyroxal (it has a bunch of minerals, vitamins, and a tiny bit of cow thyroid) and something else I have no hope of ever pronouncing. The bottle says "Six Flavor Teapills" in English. The CAG said that these pills are given over in China regularly for people who have high-stress lifestyles to help balance their adrenal system out. Weirdly, they are in tiny ball form. So, before I left the office at my last appointment, CAG actually said something like "Just take 12 balls, two times a day." And because my husband and I are juvenile, we smirked a little before realizing that no one else thought it was funny to have balls of medicine.

*Sometimes I still take herbal supplements like turmeric, green tea, ginger, milk thistle and cinnamon (all anti-inflammatory, all warm things, good for people with hypothyroidism). I don't take a selenium supplement (supposedly good for people with thyroid issues) because there is already selenium in my Thyroxal.

*I am still encouraged by the fact that my anti-TPO antibodies are going down. That means that one of the thigns I am doing (or not doing, like avoiding wheat) is working for my body. The inflammatory process that created those antibodies is...calming down a bit.

Right now, I do not have arthritis. Right now, I do not feel so tired that I want to lay down all day long. Right now, I am pretty optimistic.