Hi Everyone! So for today’s post I’m gonna pick up where I left off in my journey with getting digonsed. I know I haven’t touched on the underactive thyroid yet but bare with me I’m getting there.
So after I got home from A&E thats when I did all that research and found out all the information I shared in my last two blogs. Even though it was very overwhelming, I was strangely excited to be getting somewhere.
I think it took me another week to get fully back to normal after feeling so ill, even though at that time my ‘normal’ wasn’t very normal at all. But the thought of eventually having an answer and starting to feel better soon got me through.
I think it took a couple of months to get an appointment organised and I started to become a bit frustrated. I think mainly because I started to become more aware of my symptoms and could start to make the link between foods I was eating and the way they were making me feel. I remember the first ever food I made a direct link with was sausages.
Sausages were the only breakfast food I liked so I was a bit devastated, whenever I ate them I got really bad stomach cramps and felt nauseous. It got to the point where I just cut them out of my diet anyway because even the thought of them made me feel ill. Luckily you can get gluten free ones that are no different, the ones from Mark and Spencers have to be my favourite!
The list of foods that I knew instantly gave me cramps grew longer with things like caramel squares and pizzas being the worst. I once had to take two days off work from eating a pizza, I was in agony instantly and didn’t ease up untill two days after. But after that I knew it had to be something with gluten or something else I was eating.
It was very hard to keep up the positive thinking when you still don’t feel healthy and you have to wait a long time for an appointment. If I’m really honest I got myself in a bit of a rut of feeling annoyed and fed up. My mum and dad suggested to get a doctor’s appointment and ask them to do a blood test to cut out the waiting time. When I got the results, they came back negative and it’s just felt like another massive set back.
Everyone was there reminding me that I’m a step closer than I was before and that I will get there. They were right! So if you’re in the position I was in then don’t give up, you won’t be forgotten about and you will get the medical help you need. Sometimes we just need to be patient and it will be worth it.
I finally got a letter for my appointment with the gastroenterologist and I was over the moon! I’d never been so exctied to have a hospital appointment 😂
I’ll write about how that went in my next post, wishing you all positive vibes x
The Butterfly Effect 