Sara Mae
05-21-2012, 03:15 PM
I thought I would post to say "hello."
I am in my mid-thirties now, but when I was in my early twenties I was vegan for a number of years, and for a short-time raw. At the age of twenty-five I began eating meat again, and my eating habits, as well as my health have declined as the years have passed.
About six months ago I was diagnosed with hypothyroid, but that was after about five years of intense muscle fatigue, chronic muscle pain, roller-coaster weight-gains, then weight-losses.
How I was diagnosed with hypothyroid: The past two years I have been going to the ER with muscle pain, muscle fatigue, and psycological disturbances. Six months ago I went yet again to the ER because of extreme anxiety--I couldn't keep my head straight, I was talking to myself all the time, and just cracking. Of course, the ER psychiatrist took a thyroid level test, and found that my thyroid was screwed-up, BAD! I was hospitalized in a psychiatric ward for a couple of weeks, to straighten-out my thyroid, and stabilize me on psychiatric medications.
Initially they prescribed me Lithium, but that medication was terrible. Then they prescribed me Prozac, and other medications along with it, and I have been taking them off-and-on the past six months. I am slowly weening myself off of the last of the Prozac.
I began eating Raw again this past three weeks, and I have noticed a big change. I did have to lower my thyroid dose within a week of going back to mostly Raw. I am due for another thyroid blood-check, but may have to go in early because I am having flutteries in my chest, which is an indicator that the medication is too high.
I would say I am 90% Raw right now, and have occasionally eaten a bit of cheese, and a bit of meat, but I will soon be letting that go.
Vegan/Raw life is the life for me, but procrastination, and other obstacles sort of veer you off the road, and I was basically a drug addict with cooked, processed foods.
Cooked, and processed foods have a sedative affect on the body, and mind; how else would the food be able to slowly poison a person to death?
I am back-on track, and heading toward the eating life that I had always missed, and longed for.
Sara Mae
I am in my mid-thirties now, but when I was in my early twenties I was vegan for a number of years, and for a short-time raw. At the age of twenty-five I began eating meat again, and my eating habits, as well as my health have declined as the years have passed.
About six months ago I was diagnosed with hypothyroid, but that was after about five years of intense muscle fatigue, chronic muscle pain, roller-coaster weight-gains, then weight-losses.
How I was diagnosed with hypothyroid: The past two years I have been going to the ER with muscle pain, muscle fatigue, and psycological disturbances. Six months ago I went yet again to the ER because of extreme anxiety--I couldn't keep my head straight, I was talking to myself all the time, and just cracking. Of course, the ER psychiatrist took a thyroid level test, and found that my thyroid was screwed-up, BAD! I was hospitalized in a psychiatric ward for a couple of weeks, to straighten-out my thyroid, and stabilize me on psychiatric medications.
Initially they prescribed me Lithium, but that medication was terrible. Then they prescribed me Prozac, and other medications along with it, and I have been taking them off-and-on the past six months. I am slowly weening myself off of the last of the Prozac.
I began eating Raw again this past three weeks, and I have noticed a big change. I did have to lower my thyroid dose within a week of going back to mostly Raw. I am due for another thyroid blood-check, but may have to go in early because I am having flutteries in my chest, which is an indicator that the medication is too high.
I would say I am 90% Raw right now, and have occasionally eaten a bit of cheese, and a bit of meat, but I will soon be letting that go.
Vegan/Raw life is the life for me, but procrastination, and other obstacles sort of veer you off the road, and I was basically a drug addict with cooked, processed foods.
Cooked, and processed foods have a sedative affect on the body, and mind; how else would the food be able to slowly poison a person to death?
I am back-on track, and heading toward the eating life that I had always missed, and longed for.
Sara Mae