Hello my thyroid friends. I am updating this in 2025. I ended regular blog posts in 2022 after the physical passing of someone dear to me. And that loss underscored that I need to have an important break from what one was doing before, like writing blog posts and more.

But I do want to tell you what happened to me in 2022, as it will apply to any of you.

If you didn’t know, still being hypothyroid has many symptoms. The best list on the internet is this one.
I say “the best” not to criticize other lists. I say it because this list is not only based on 23 years of reported patient experiences and observations, it doesn’t include symptoms which are more related to adrenals in order to puff the list up.

And one symptom is the “inability to conceive”. l didn’t have this problem. But some women do when they are still hypothyroid, either from not being diagnosed, or being treated poorly on T4-only, or underdosed even with T3 in their treatment.

Here’s more specifically what I want to tell you…

I was at a restaurant eating my breakfast one morning, but it was actually a brunch. I eat my “breakfast”

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around 1pm. Why? Because I’m doing intermittent fasting from approximately 10pm the night before until about 1pm the next day. I do this to keep my insulin levels down (I have a touch of insulin resistance I want to fight against). It’s also anti-dementia, anti-Alzheimer’s to do it. Plus doing it keeps my weight down beautifully. It’s not hard for me to do, as I get my energy from fat when fasting. I don’t even notice it much.

The waitress walked up to me. She said “I remember you from a few years ago!” with a smile on her face.

I asked how?? She said that she had waited on me before, and that I was the reason she had been able to turn her inability around to have more children around! She now has three sons instead of the one when I met her.

I had apparently found out she was on Synthroid, told her about Stop the Thyroid Madness, about a better way to treat hypothyroidism and all related no matter the cause. She has now been on Armour instead of the Synthroid she used to be on—the latter which prevented her from getting pregnant again. She was now doing fabulously. She showed me a photo her now three darling sons, all thanks to throwing Synthroid to the wind and now having T3 in her treatment.

She also underscored that she has been using her new STTM knowledge to guide her doctor, who is willing to listen. That is the kind of doctor we all have to work to find. I’ve done it. I know that those of you in the UK, as one example, have it hard, though.

But it’s also important to know that anyone reading this can do fabulously with T4 and T3, or with T3-only if there is an RT3 problem to treat. You just need to READ this: https://stopthethyroidmadness.com/optimal. And I don’t mean skim the latter page. Read it all.

And do consider getting the STTM books, which are here. The bottom line is that doctors have terrible training when it comes to either hypothyroidism or Hashimoto’s, and believe in that terrible training. So it means YOU, ME, ALL OF US have to be better informed when we walk into the doctor’s office in order to counter whatever they try to do that will not help you.