At long last I?m able to give you a bit of an update on my recent health struggles! If you?re catching up, read this post and this post (and the comments) first.
Well, where did we leave off" To start, I?m so thankful to have found a great naturopath after not having an overly helpful experience earlier in the year. I?ve been struggling with my symptoms on and off for years now, so it?s been a huge relief to finally get some answers! Slowly but surely I?m starting to feel like a new person. My recent tests showed that my hormones are a hot mess…estrogen is too high, my morning cortisol is way too low (hello, feeling like a zombie even after a decent night?s sleep), and one of my thyroid hormones is also too low. My doctor had suspected many of these results based on my symptoms, but it was interesting to see them on paper! I?m definitely no expert on this stuff, but I learned that when one hormone is off, it can impact another…and on and on the cycle goes, often throwing your entire system out of whack in the process. I felt such relief knowing that how I was feeling wasn?t just in my head all this time. It?s so easy to push through feeling awful, blaming your symptoms on other things. I can?t even tell you how many times I told myself that I felt like crap because I was a new mom, or I was nursing and up in the middle of the night, or I was working out too hard (or not enough), or I wasn?t taking my vitamins, or my diet wasn?t balanced, or I was just fe...