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My Battle For Well Women
Hi to all and welcome to Well Women. My name is Marianne and I am 44 years old. I was born in Clapham, London in November 1962. I have Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis which is an auto immune disease of the Thyroid. Well Women is about my struggle with Thyroid disease, Scoliosis, menopause, panic attacks and many other conditions that affect women, including self esteem and depression. I spent many years suffering from depression, many years of being fed anti-depressants. As soon as I was given Thyroid medication, my depression lifted. Natural progesterone has also helped me enormously. I have three wonderful children, Sean 17, Clare 13 and Niamh (pronounced Neeve) aged 9. Clare also has scoliosis and was first diagnosed around Jan 2006. She is being constantly monitored by her orthopaedic consultant. Her curve is only around 12 degrees, so does not need a brace, and hopefully never will! I now only have to worry about Niamh, who is coming up to the age where she will need to be watched.
In my Scoliosis story, I discuss what happened to me from diagnosis to present day. Also please see Clare's story which will also be updated all the time. I still await spinal surgery some time this year and my diary will be documented on this site including before and after photos, should I decide to proceed. There is still another option that I am considering. (please see my story for details.) I have included this in my thyroid story as I feel the constant x-rays may have been contributary in the onset of Hashimoto's as although I may have inherited this from my Father, I was having X-rays every three weeks!! This can’t have been good. I have been very ill with the thyroid condition, which has taken a long time to treat and now I am on the road to better health, want to share with you the way that I have achieved this with supplements, natural progesterone and building my website, "Well Women." Working from home has helped me enormously as it has taken the worry out of being absent from work and of course has increased my happiness. It is very important to have a hobby doing something which occupies your time and is in addition to being a mum and wife. There are so many women out there who may have an undiagnosed Thyroid condition and just don't know why they feel so bad. There are also women who have had thyroid tests, and because these showed as being "normal" have been ignored by their doctors. It is possible to have a normal blood test and still be hypothyroid. Reading and research have been my "food" and by doing this I have made myself so much better. We always neglect ourselves because we have families to look after, but then when we can no longer carry on, what happens then? Only I have a very supportive husband, I would have gone to rock bottom after the death of my father, and not everyone is as lucky as me. Please take time to read as much as you can about the conditition so that you can educate yourselves about your illness and in turn, educate others. Please take a look at my well women guide to books.
If only men could be educated in why their wife or partner is behaving the way they are. Many women go through complete personality changes because of a Thyroid condition and just can't understand why. My behaviour was very odd and I was very worried I would lose Mike, but fortunately with diagnosis and treatment and the 100 per cent support from him, I can tell you about this today and that is the sole purpose of "Well Women".
Building a site called well women is to help you all and I really hope it does. Please use the contact me page if you want to tell me anything about your conditions or if you would like your story to be featured on this site or if there is any products, supplements, herbal remedies or anything at all that has helped you so that we can spread the word. Good luck for now Mx
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