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Treatment update

Carolina Beach It's been a while since I've updated. August was a busy month. We went on vacation to Carolina Beach, then came home and went to 3 rock concerts within one week. Just prior to leaving on vacation, I started noticing symptoms ramping up. My face began breaking out badly and I had a lot of shortness of breath. By the time we went to the concerts, I had full-out anxiety, increased heart rate, insomnia, and was losing about a pound a day. I finally made the connection that my thyroid was over-medicated and I had gone full hyperthyroid. It took a few days but I began to feel better, although it took weeks for my body to fully adjust. I'm now at 1/2 pill daily of naturethroid, and will re-test in a couple of weeks. I see this as a good sign - my hypothyroidism seems to be slowly going into remission. It's now been 3.5 months since I quit antibiotics. A few weeks ago I had my first follow-up with my herbalist. We went over symptoms and she made some adju