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A small my health post for my blog. It's to give more of an insight into my everyday, ordinary life of juggling, work, family and running and the small, but nuisance trials I come up against. After feeling tired most days, being a little [?] overweight and sometimes generally low in mood I went to see my nurse in December and asked for my bloods done. I had had them done before a few years back when I was again feeling tired and found that my Thyroid was under-active. The nurse agreed and did a full blood works. Thyroid, liver, sugars, Vit D etc etc etc. I left feeling a little better that I'd taken a step to find out if I may be ill or just under the weather. I work long hours which include an early rise for commuting. Then on my days off I try to run and exercise in hope to meet my goals. A few days later I was called by my doctors' receptionist to pick up a prescription for Vitamin D. Nothing else was mentioned about my blood works, so I assumed that everything e...

After sitting one morning recently and crying for reasons I don't know (stress, anxiety, tired, peri-menopause *not diagnosed, thyroid ... eh!?) I decided to write a brief, but hopefully informative blog.  A few years ago (I was around 40…?) I was tired. Not just tired, but very tired. I thought that it was just the hours I was working as a community carer (I could do 60 plus a week). I visited my practice and was given blood tests. It returned as an underactive thyroid. Hypothyroidism . I wasn't really given any other information, just the medication that I needed for it. Needless to say, despite being a care assistant, I was pretty rubbish at caring for myself. I took my meds randomly, when and if I remembered, often re-ordering too late and missing doses. Many years of a lack of understanding, coupled with a lack of self care about my condition I eventually Googled what I was meant to be doing, as apparently it can be quite serious. These are my better late than never brief...