The b/c pills most likely aren't helping with the periods, and are just making me cranky. (I knew there was a reason I used to hate them.) BUT...my thyroid is 'on the large side of normal', which means it is growing, which means that is likely the cause of the problem.
Fun side effects of thyroid issues? Fatigue. Crankiness. Depression. Inability to lose weight despite following low-fat diet and exercising. Muscle and joint pain. Carpal tunnel/tendonitis. Irritable bowel syndrome. Changes in hair, excessive dry skin, sweating, and sensitivity to hot and cold.
Here's a fun blurb about enlarged thyroid:
Emotional symptoms also abound with thyroid disease. For example, sufferers may find that depression, anxiety and low self-esteem become evident with no valid cause. Visual and auditory hallucinations are not all that uncommon either. Enlarged thyroid can cause the eyes and ears to malfunction in a sense, causing voices or sounds to be heard that are not there or causing sufferers to see objects or people that are not there. This could lead to mental breakdown when left untreated. Phobias can also develop where previously none existed. For example, social phobias and height phobias are commonly associated with declined thyroid function.
Who'd have thought...your thyroid could cause all of that? So now I kind of want to pretend I'm hallucinating just to mess with my husband. ;-)
Anyway - if I believed all this garbage, there's no reason I'd ever be in a good mood. But I am anyway. So :-P
(I think it's the crockpot. For some reason, making dinner in the morning always makes me feel more accomplished...)
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