I was shattered.
I realized though it was the non-stop stress she had been living for so many years came down like an avalanche one day and catapulted her into full blown, stage 3 Hashimoto’s when the doctors decided to finally to diagnose her.
After spending 7 years jumping around from one doctor to the next we continued to get the same answer -"keep taking your Synthroid."
Unfortunately, the fatigue, IBS, migraines, brain fog, hair loss and weight gain got exponentially worse. She felt more hopeless and more miserable than ever. Synthroid could NOT be the only answer.
While all of this was happening, I had just enrolled in graduate school around 2013 to study alternative medicine for cancer. But after hearing all about these failures, I became incredibly frustrated and fed up.
Seeing my mom go through the struggles she faced pushed me to absolute obsession and got me fired up! I directed my studies towards autoimmune disease and Hashimoto's, and researched for hours on end.
I decided there was no way in hell I was just going to watch my mom suffer and get little to no resolution from the medications her doctor prescribed her.
I was absolutely BLOWN AWAY by how conventional medicine was feeding her so many lies.