Hello My name is Kerri
I was just diagnosed with Graves approx 4months ago. 2 years ago I gave birth to my twins and 3 months post delivery I started to notice changes with my body. I gained 52 lbs and 3 weeks post deliver had lost 30lbs of out of the 52. I wore my wedding rings the whole pregnancy, until 3 months post baby. Still can’t fit them. I have never been overweight & always exercised. 1 year post deliver i started to get serious about losing the extra 20lbs. I was nursing and thought maybe my body was storing the weight to produce milk. November of 2010 in 2 weeks my weight jumped 20lbs. I was 8 weeks into doing p90x, logging all my calories. Couldn’t figure it out. My sister urged me to get my thyroid checked, of course came back normal. FInally my family doctor said lets send you to an endo and test your antibodies and sure enough they were high. Waited 8 weeks re ran blood tests and low and behold it is graves. I work out, have tried weight watchers and can’t get my weight to budge an inch. I am worried about the toll this is taking on me physically. Heart disease, diabetes all run in my family and it scares me to be 45 lbs overweight and I can’t do anything about it. I just went into the normal range about 6 weeks ago.I am like .02 into the normal range. I need advice what do you do. My joints ache, not sure if it is due to the weight or the disease. My eyes are not bulgy, but do get those floaters or the feeling you get when you have floaters. I have the rapid heart beat, sometimes feel like I am going to crawl out of my skin. Has anyone found any solutions ~ Herbals, meds any advice would be so appreciative.
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