Okay, If I Need To Avoid ...

Cabbage (*Cries*)
Broccoli (No more broccoli and cheese :O)
Turnips
Rutabaga
Mustard greens
Kale
Spinach (*sobs uncontrolably*)
Brussel Sprouts
Peaches (OMG ... )
Pears
Strawberries (NOOOOO!!!!!!)
Radishes
Caulifower
Millet
African cassava (What is that — )
Potatoes (WHAT!!!)
Corn
Soy (Ugh oh ...)

Then what on earth am I suppose to eat ———————————??

Meat! It taste good and fits well in your hand, like burgers, steak etc. 😛

hahaha, well thats what things seem to be leaning towards. But I like fruits and veggies too :O

My favorite things are on the list I can't have. I'm like WHAT!

Posted by cappysweetie
hahaha, well thats what things seem to be leaning towards. But I like fruits and veggies too :O

My favorite things are on the list I can't have. I'm like WHAT!

Posted by cappygolightly
do you have a thyroid problem?

Yeah .... how did you know—?

Wait, I think I discussed it once or twice on here. Yep, I told SB, I remember.

Posted by Crazy4cappy
Why is this?

lol!!!! I love how you just pop in 😄

Actually, this list came from a website but its very very very similar to the list that my doctor gave me. I have to start sticking to this list if I want to get better. I stuck to it for a while until like the summer of 2007 ...

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do you have a thyroid problem?

Yeah .... how did you know—?

I know someone who has to avoid cruciferous veg because of thyroid. But surely you are very young to have thyroid issues? Is this why you didnt feel so good a while back? Too much stress is not good for you.

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Yep, thats why ....

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hahaha, well thats what things seem to be leaning towards. But I like fruits and veggies too :O

My favorite things are on the list I can't have. I'm like WHAT!

You like broccali? Inserting crazy kermit. I try to stay away from that stuff myself.

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Broccali and cheese use to be my fav 😄 😄 😄

Posted by cappygolightly
the person I know was helped a great deal by a homeopathist. Conventional meds don't help much.

Tell me about it .... whats a homeopathist—?

Posted by Crazy4cappy
Haha thanks. 🙂

Do you have hypothyriodism? Because that's what I had and I was told the chances of just the tablets working was pretty slim by my endo. I looked up all the horror stories about RAI etc and though stuff that. haha
So I gave up broccoli, cauliflower and the soy. I used to drink a lot of soy milk and loved using soy sauce. Well 12 months later and I didn't need anything thank god!

So I know removing those three things helped me as my chance of recovery on tablets was 1/4.

Well,

I had hyperthyroidism and in order to be cured, I was converted to hypothyroidism by radioactivity iodine treatment. At the time and even know, theres no treatment for hyper- but theres treatment for hypo-

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oh um....lol I dont know how to explain. It's someone who has pills that have very miniscule amounts of diluted poisonous substances that are supposed to make you better because your body copes with the tiny toxin and it becomes stronger or something like that. But the main thing is that they do a wholist approach to health. So they give advice on diet and nutrition and psychology etc.

american institute link

hmmmm, I will have to check them out. I mean, its not that I don't like my endo but I like alternatives.

Wait crazy4cappy, so you have a form of it too?

I didn't know I had it until I was 17 years -- I was told by my doctor that I had it longer than that but it wasn't detected.

Posted by cappygolightly
dont they give you meds to slow down your thyroid? I read up on this because having known someone with thyroid probs and being a hyperchondriac I started worrying I might have it lol. But I just gave up coffee and felt much better. I think I was just stressed.

Depends on the condition. At the time, my goiter was very big and they were thinking about cutting it out. It was too close to my voice box so my doctor didn't want to risk it. So they decided to do radioactive iodine treatment instead to shink the goiter all the way to the point where it simply didn't exist. I was radioactive during that time and remained like that for a while, I was at my strongest for one week. The doctor gave me a high dosage radioactive stuff because he didn't want the goiter to comeback. He said something about the fact that I was so young to have a thyroid gland that big was not good.

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17? what a pain for you. Do you have mood swings & temperature sensitivity?

Yep, hahaha when I say I have mood-swings I'm not just whisling dixie you know 😉

And I am very sensitive to temperature actually. Its so funny, when I'm doing my homework, I can't have any warmth around at all. If I do, I will go right to sleep at the drop of a hat. It doesn't matter, I will fall asleep. If I'm too cold, I can't do anything until I get warm ... its a long story lol

Posted by Crazy4cappy
Mine was Graves disease..I gues I still have it but it's in remission. Hopefully it will never come back. Whenever I get anxious or stressed I do get paranoid I might upset the apple cart.

Yep, thats what they called mine. I just still to saying thyroid disorder because anytime I said Graves' Disease, it would scare people. They thought they could catch it or something lol

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Oh well no wonder you had to have the rai then. I only had a small one.

Yeah, I didn't feel anything but I saw the after effects afterwards and those sucked. Its like I had to repair my body. After I was converted, it was like I was given another body and I had to fix it lol!

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LOL. I keep it simple as well. Have you noticed though the only thyriod problem people know is hypo? I'd say at the time I've got a thyriod problem and they would be like yeah I have hypothyriod as well or someone I know has hypothyriod problems. The thing is Graves is rare where hypo is quite common. How rude of them to devalue my disease! haha

OMG I know! No one knows about Graves' Disease (ie Hyperthyroidism) -- they are both dealing with the thyroid but they are totally different.

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Oh well no wonder you had to have the rai then. I only had a small one.

Yeah, I didn't feel anything but I saw the after effects afterwards and those sucked. Its like I had to repair my body. After I was converted, it was like I was given another body and I had to fix it lol!

Yeah I was trying to avoid all that but then still ended up with something else instead. So I've resigned myself to being sickly from now on. lol I'm not looking forward to old age when I've already had a taste of what it's going to be like with aches and pains and fatigue etc. haha

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OMG! OMG! OMG! I totally understand. In many ways, I feel as if I understand what it feels like to want to get out of bed and I can't because my body won't freaking move. Thats so scary, I didn't experience this for a while until recently but thats because my levels are thrown off.

In the beginning stages of the hyperthyroidism, something I would get out of bed and I would fall right on the spot. Like I would lose my balance. It was hard to get up and I was dizzy too. Once I fell and my mom heard me, she came to help me -- it was loud this that time so I couldn't hide it lol

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The worst thing for me is I have a foggy brain. I might as well be on drugs or booze. haha

hahahahaha, oh yeah. I'm a person that really shouldn't drink, sometime my head is already in the clouds hahaha

Posted by Crazy4cappy
Yeah that vertigo thing I think it's called. I can't stand the hot weather but the cold weather, I'm just so stiff and can't move. I know for me it was scary the first time I felt my energy level reduce. You are sitting there not doing anything that's made you tired and you get up and you feel like all the energy has drained from your body. One of the first times it happened to me I got a bit teary because it freaked me out. It's just so weird to have this energy loss and people don't get it because it doesn't follow the usually pattern of doing a lot of activity beforehand.

Oh yes, I cried alot in the beginning. Only because I felt hardly no no understood. That was a crazy time, but I've come to realize that I can't block it, I can only embrace it because it forget about it will be my downfall.

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I can be sober and pretend I've been drinking. No one would ever know..lol

LMAO

Posted by sagigoat
i didn't read the whole thread but i hope you come up with a new list of favorite food sweetie... our taste changes over time anyway right? 🙂

hey the new pic is HHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!

Hi Sagi 😄

Yeah, actually I'm still trying to figure that out. Once I do it, I will feel better and other things will be better too.

And you like my avatar pic YAY!!!! Thank you 🙂 She's my favorite singer -- I actually liked her old stuff better than her new stuff. My figure use to look like that until I screwed it up lol. How could I miss that up! My goodness HOW! lol

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Yeah that vertigo thing I think it's called. I can't stand the hot weather but the cold weather, I'm just so stiff and can't move. I know for me it was scary the first time I felt my energy level reduce. You are sitting there not doing anything that's made you tired and you get up and you feel like all the energy has drained from your body. One of the first times it happened to me I got a bit teary because it freaked me out. It's just so weird to have this energy loss and people don't get it because it doesn't follow the usually pattern of doing a lot of activity beforehand.

Oh yes, I cried alot in the beginning. Only because I felt hardly no no understood. That was a crazy time, but I've come to realize that I can't block it, I can only embrace it because it forget about it will be my downfall.

Poor cappie sweetie being ill can be awful!!

I am glad it appears you are ion the road to wellness!

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Aww, thank you lou.m 😄 Yeah, I'm a long ways away from the way I use to be.

Posted by lou.m
I have heard of graves disease it can be quite serious.

So srry you are going through it at leas they no what it is now and you are getting help.

I hop eyou feel much better🙂

Strangely people KEEP asking me if i have it!

Really? Why do people think you have it? You don't have a goiter do you? I tell you, my goiter was so big ... it seemed as if I had an adam's apple and I hated it hated it hated it 😢 I blamed it on my weight because I knew it looked wierd. However, when I started loosing weight rapidly I couldn't blame it on weight anymore so I wear alot of turtle-necks.

Eating sucked too, if I talked while eating I always choked. Or if too much went done at the same time I had to bring it all back it and ... yeah, going out to eat wasn't any fun during that time, I stopped after I had a nasty incident.

Posted by Archer
sweetie honey,

we have a very HIGH incidence of hypo and hyper thyroidism here.. in south east asia .. so first ... >
and second... whomsoever you let go.. dont miss an appointment with your doc.. the problem that I faced (chronic tuberculosis) that one tends to get along 'more-or-less' fine with disease and medical checkup etc take a back seat.. I hope you being a prudent cap, never do that.

My mother was Hypo-thyroid for 25+ years and working fine on oral 'thyroxine'.. she was a Math's teacher and initially her case was diagnosed for she would start doing a sum on board for student and in the middle of it... forgot the rationale totally, starting again from first line..

an endocrinologist is the right person.. I will go for Homeopathy as a suppliment ONLY, not the whole treatment regime.

and that PIC is HOT... ... in this time of global warming.it will cause floods.. 😉

Hi Archer 😄

Well, thats why my levels were off again ... I didn't go to my endo like I was suppose too. Currently I'm taking syntroids but I have to do other things too. South Asia has a high incidence of this, hmmm, you know thats very interesting.

I didn't know you had chronic tuberculosis until now.

I tend to forget myself.. since it was in essence a repeat attack while I had low immunity.. so it became resistant to therapy.. long story short.. after a short stay of few weeks at hospital I did start responding to medicines..

I was in the hospital last December, it screwed my exam schedule and everything lol.

Thats awesome! You started responding to the treatment 🙂

.. but the tri-yearly checkups required and those levels etc.. i have not done in last one year.. for I feel ok..

I have to go to the doc every 3 to 6 monthes, which is a pain because when I was doing better, it was only once a year. Hey, take it from me, just because you feel fine, don't stop, go if you have to.

I hope and know that once it settles, you 'll have manageable levels and a perfect.. yet that list is ewwwwwwww..

lol, I know! Like I said, I got off line but its very similar to my list from the doc.

when you are asked to NOT do something.. we sags tend to CRAVE doing that, even if it is the most boring thing to do.. hope your sag half does not cringe at 'restrictions'..

Thats the problem ... my sag side does cringe at restrictions lol!!!!! But I have to get better with that, I have to work even harder having an air moon 😛

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an endocrinologist is the right person.. I will go for Homeopathy as a suppliment ONLY, not the whole treatment regime.

Oh yes definitely strongly agree. You can't stop thyroxine supplements, blood monitoring and other such conventional therapy. I meant as an additional complementary treatment to help boost the immune system.

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Okay, I will check it out still.

I hope you get fully there i am sure you will :-)

Maybe you can find some recipes on the net for people with thyroid probs i will look!

Oh my, awww thank you lou ^_^. I will look up recipes once I figure out what I can eat ad what I can't eat lol. I'm eating jerky now 😛

At school my nickname was Miss skeleton!

😢 😢 😢 Kids can be terrible

As for potatoes can you have sweet potato??

THERE NOT ON THE LIST!!!! 😄 😄 😄 😄 Yes! There something good I can eat.

It could be a great food adventure.

http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/showthread.php?t=70656

You are AWESOME LOU! Yes, maybe I should look at this as a food adventure 😄 Thank you for the link 🙂 🙂 🙂

Posted by super powers...ACTIVATE!
Sea vegetables are supposed to be very good for hypothyroidism. YOu can eat them or make them into tea, but if you've ever had kelp, then you know it's not really a very nice flavor. They do make supplements though. Have you tried taking a sea vegetable supplement? I take them for the iodine (to prevent breast cancer). I hate sea weed--i always pick the nori off of my sushi.

ohhh, I love sushi 😛 but apparently, theres a problem with me eating sushi too! UGH!!!!!! No, I've never tried sea vegtable suppements but I will see if I can get some 🙂

Cappysweetie, laughs Being an African let me tell you what African Cassava is, it's a food crop in the western part of african that is used in many dishes. I also heard it was used in Latin American as well.

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ohhh, I love sushi 😛 but apparently, theres a problem with me eating sushi too! UGH!!!!!! No, I've never tried sea vegtable suppements but I will see if I can get some 🙂

no raw fish? hmm Ive not heard that's bad but Id not find it too hard to avoid. The problem with lists of foods is that some are not as bad as others so a blanket ban is not necessarily needed. Apparently cooking veg gets rid of a lot of the bad stuff and who eats raw potatoes?

Have you investigated virgin coconut oil? Apparently it's supposed to be good for thyroid.

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Yes I have 🙂