The Thyroid Solution by Ridha Arem

Author:Ridha Arem [Arem, M.D., Ridha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-83316-7
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2013-02-12T16:00:00+00:00

Because of the repeated failures, Roselyn became quite depressed. As she described it, “I finally quit my job and stayed home. I didn’t cook; I didn’t do anything. I just sat around the house all day.”

Many women like Roselyn become obsessed with their condition and undertake their own determined search for the cause of their infertility. Roselyn eventually became inspired to go to the library and do her own research. She says:

I looked at every infertility book. One book mentioned the thyroid. In this case, my doctor resisted, telling me it would cost $150 to run that test. I said to myself, “I’m already spending $500 every time I come in here, so what’s another $150?” He agreed to run the test, and to his surprise, it showed I was hypothyroid. At the time, I was angry that this test had not been performed $50,000 and a year earlier.

When I began taking thyroid hormone, there was an improvement in how I was feeling—the cold, the dryness, the hair. I was a little aggravated that it took a couple of months. I thought you could just start me on thyroid hormone on Monday and I could be pregnant on Tuesday. It didn’t work that way. Even so, it was the first step in getting me out of what was the worst situation I have ever been in in my entire life.

I also wonder whether anyone would ever have figured out that I had a thyroid problem had I not pursued the fertility research. I even had fertility-related surgeries before I was diagnosed as hypothyroid. Now I think all that was unnecessary.

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