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raggie33

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if you recall i been feeling very confused and as if i was on a drug or drinking but dont do either well i drink every once in a while . my freind next door just told me he been feeling the same way and today they prescribed him same med they gave me some thyroid stuff. should i be worried about the water?
 
if you recall i been feeling very confused and as if i was on a drug or drinking but dont do either well i drink every once in a while . my freind next door just told me he been feeling the same way and today they prescribed him same med they gave me some thyroid stuff. should i be worried about the water?
Get a water test kit from one of the DIY stores. I found one at the "blue" DIY chain for around $30 that can test for a bunch of contaminants.
 
Those tests are wildly inaccurate and poorly selective.
If you are on city water, look up the published tests they do first. You can do it by zip code HERE.
That will not be an exhaustive list, but it is a start. Exhaustive testing is expensive. Like....really expensive.

Look into getting a point-of-use granulated activated carbon filter/ reverse osmosis setup. Something like THIS. Start using that for drinking water and to cook with. They aren't hard to install at the kitchen sink. Will be waaaaay cheaper than casting a wide net trying to test.
That will take care of chemical, heavy metals, PFAS, dioxins, etc etc. most everything you'd worry about other than bacteria, and the Coliform results should be published monthly at the link above, so that covers the most common bacteria.

Maybe get a radon detector and carbon monoxide detector too. It may not be the water.
 
do i need to worry about carbon dioxide if i have no gas appliances?
 
Does the water have iodine in it? Commercial water is treated with chlorine. However, if you go camping, some water treatment tablets use iodine. If you have Hashimotos Thyroiditis (autoimmune hypothyroidism that they give you levothyroxine to treat), the antibodies turn iodine into more antibodies and attack your thyroid. The big source of iodine in your diet is likely iodized salt from fast food. Avoid it. It will make your disease worse.

Avoid gluten too, autoimmune diseases pile on. Celiac disease is probably next. Take Reduced Glutathione 250-500 mg and high dose vitamin C to treat Hashimotos and all the problems that will pile up from Kreb's Cycle grinding to a halt. That cycle controls how your body processes all vitamins, minerals, sugar, fat, cholesterol, etc. Cholesterol makes all adrenal hormones so this alone will make you feel like you're brain dead, dying, and have kidney pain. Zinc is needed to make enzymes to make your gut and liver work. The inability to process enzymes can lead to celiac disease, Crohn's disease, and liver problems. Wrong amounts of vitamin B2 and B6 can make you deaf and blind. Copper built up in body can lead to allergy causing Wilson's Disease making you go nuts. Taking Vitamin C keeps these things processed in the body. Reduced glutathione recycles the vitamin C to keep the process going, but it gets used up fighting the antibodies of the disease. They will likely put you on a non inflammatory diet to help your body keep it's natural glutathione levels higher. It's not enough. Often, they tell you to avoid acidic foods like spaghetti (sauce) and orange juice (sources of vitamin C). Don't listen to that advice.

If you feel like you're dying, take high dose ginseng and DHEA. Thyroid controls adrenal glands via pituitary gland. They need support to keep from crashing. Memory issues are caused by low pregnenolone. Kidney pain caused by low aldosterone. Being fidgety is caused by low cortisol. E.D. caused by low testosterone. All these hormones are in some way produced by the adrenal glands or converted to something else downstream. Adrenal glands prioritize cortisol production during times of duress. It's called the pregnenolone steal. Low pregnenolone can make you feel drunk or have blackouts. I've been there. Take the supplements I suggested and eat eggs. Cholesterol converts to all adrenal hormones. Now, if you don't take the supplements I suggested and just eat eggs, you'll have a heart attack because none of that cholesterol could be processed in your body. And don't salt the eggs with iodized salt.
 
do i need to worry about carbon monoxide if i have no gas appliances?
For carbon monoxide, got the following off of an air-conditioning & heating repair company website:

"Anytime that you burn solid or liquid fuel for cooking, heating or any other use, you absolutely need a CO detector installed...."
 
no gas here. i feel decent today but had days where i couldt get out of bed or even think as if i was drunk or high but wasnt. bp was crazy high and thyroid tsh was off. not sure what either is now
 
BP, or blood pressure will be higher from stress. That's your body producing cortisol thinking that you're dying from your adrenals not getting ACTH from the pituitary, because it didn't receive enough thyroid hormone. Again, when the adrenals need to make more cortisol, it's stealing from hormones that protect the brain (pregnenolone). That's what makes you feel drunk or black out. Thyroid hormone controls every cell in your body. Once you are supplementing with levothyroxine, your internal thermostat and energy regulator is shot. Your body isn't making natural adjustments as needed to control things so half the time something will be out of whack.

When the disease attacks your thyroid, it can release a lot of thyroid hormone into your system all at once, causing you to have a lot of energy, feel fidgety, or have palpitations of the heart. Conversely, afterward, it can leave you with low hormone levels and be bedridden. Welcome to the club. Been dealing with this since 2017 myself.

By the way, high cholesterol will also cause high BP. Another reason to start with those supplements I suggested. You don't want to have a heart attack. Palpitations caused by the disease will put you at a higher risk for this. Avoid statin drugs for reducing cholesterol. Your body needs cholesterol for your adrenals to work. The problem is it doesn't get converted due to the disease. The supplements will fix this. Statins will make your adrenals crash.
 
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damn hope she can do blood work tomorrow i cant find a normal dcotor we have non but she is a specail nurse never met her before hope she knows what she is doing i frigin hate needles
 
btw i hope i get better fast i cant even play my ps5 or wacth tv. just cant concentrate ..but parts of the weeks and days are better then other parts
 
im reading notes from my past dotors online looks like ive had thyroid issues for years . i kind of recall this and i know i quit all meds like 15 months ago man that was dumb lol
 
yeah went to dcoter this am i go back for lab results next friday but they did increase bp meds
 
bp isnt going down even thou they increase my bp meds over and over. wth im not over weight i excercise etc etc. my thyroid wasnt to bad in latest check if i recall it was 5.1 but i get stuff wrong sometimes
 
bp isnt going down even thou they increase my bp meds over and over. wth im not over weight i excercise etc etc. my thyroid wasnt to bad in latest check if i recall it was 5.1 but i get stuff wrong sometimes
See if you can find ways to cut down on salt intake. There's hidden salt in almost everything these days.
 
bp isnt going down even thou they increase my bp meds over and over. wth im not over weight i excercise etc etc. my thyroid wasnt to bad in latest check if i recall it was 5.1 but i get stuff wrong sometimes
TSH should be between 1.8 to 3 if you are heathy. Anything over that and your body functions slow down. They usually don't adjust thyroid meds until it gets over 4.25-4.5 depending on the range for the lab (there's no consistency in range, it used to be 10 before they did anything). You may experience heart palpitations when your TSH is high/T4 is low. Your adrenals freak out because they don't get enough ACTH and go into survival mode releasing cortisol. This keeps you from being able to lose weight as your body tries to hang on to it's fat and sugar reserves. Over time, this can increase cholesterol and blood pressure. It can put you at higher risk of diabetes. You don't have to get fat before high cortisol messes you up. Get the doctors to get your TSH down below 3 with the proper levothyroxine dose and you'll feel much better. A little DHEA (another stress hormone) may relieve some of the stress and bring your BP down as well. Already mentioned this in previous posts about providing adrenal support, helps lower cortisol.
 
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