Hashimoto's is Not a Restaurant

When you’re diagnosed with Hashimoto's, one of the biggest issues is the attempts you will make to feel “normal” again. To feel like yourself and to return to a past without the brain fog and fatigue. Before the autoimmune civil war broke out with no say from you. However, there is a cost is trying to cling onto a pre-illness version you, which will only exacerbate the misery. Hashimoto's forces you to confront a truth that most healthy people get to conveniently ignore, your body is not going to behave as an ally regardless of the behavioral changes, diet changes, and supplements. What you can control is how you respond to a life that now has hard limits. You learn to negotiate with your energy instead of spending it recklessly. You get ruthless about what actually matters. You stop saying yes to things that drain you because you literally cannot afford to anymore. Hashimoto's is a difficult disease to navigate and a brutal teacher, which can allow you to become more honest, more intentional, and more grounded person than you ever would have been with a functioning thyroid and nothing real to push back against.

Dr. Jeff Bone