MY STORY

Giving birth twice was very difficult for my body.I didn’t realize it at the time, but after delivering my first born, I had postpartum triggered Hypothyroidism.  I associated my hair loss, brain fog, bone tired exhaustion, and weight gain with being “normal” as a new Mom.

However, after giving birth to my second child it became very evident that my health was already spiralizing downward. Just three short months after she was born I had to be rushed into the hospital for an emergency gallbladder removal surgery. My gallbladder was four times its normal size. They were concerned it could explode at any moment. Then we had our fourth out of state move. The stress of relocation, being a new Mom, and trying to figure out my body, took me over the edge in my health. Soon after this move, I was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s, an autoimmune condition where your body attacks the thyroid. In one sense, I was relieved to finally get some sense of why I felt awful everyday, but in the other sense I was told the only thing I could do was take medication all my life for this chronic illness. The discouraging part was that even with daily medication none of my symptoms subsided. I tried almost everything, but nothing seemed to work.I became hopeless, and deeply depressed. I still felt like the “walking dead.