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What Are Thyroid Flares or Thyroid Flare-Ups?

Originally published on 12th May 2016 Last updated on 7th June 2024 Author’s Note: I originally…

The ‘Spoon Theory’ Perfectly Captures Managing Thyroid Fatigue

Originally published on 29th July 2016 Last updated on 25th November 2023 A ‘Spoonie’? What’s a…

How I Manage Housework with Thyroid Disease

I have always been a tidy, organised person. It’s just who I am. I feel happiest…

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🎄 What would you add?! - Rachel Hill, thyroid

🎄 What would you add?!

- Rachel Hill, thyroid patient advocate 🦋💙

💊 Did you know that not leaving 4 hours between

💊 Did you know that not leaving 4 hours between your thyroid meds and iron tablets can affect absorption of your thyroid meds?

💊 The same goes for tablets / meds that contain magnesium, oestrogen (like the contraceptive pill), calcium (like antacids) and antibiotics.

💊 And you want to be absorbing it properly so you can feel well. This is an important puzzle piece! 🧩

👇 Let me know your experiences with this in the comments and as always, follow me for more thyroid info and please check out the resources linked in my bio for more support!

- Rachel Hill, Thyroid Patient Advocate 🦋💙

💙 A moment of appreciation for this wonderful h

💙 A moment of appreciation for this wonderful human being who has been with me through the highs and lows of my health.

💕 When we met as 15 year olds, we’d have never known what was ahead of us. My health issues we would have to navigate, various unfortunate events to happen to us, also a pregnancy loss and stress during pregnancy due to my thyroid condition. Not a lot of things have been easy for us!

💕 Yet here we are. We made it. And we continue to figure it out as we go along, coming out that bit stronger on the other side.

🪨 Over 15 years together and he continues to be my rock. My number one fan. And I continue to feel so, so lucky.

🥂 so here’s to Adam. 😊

(on a side note - Adam and I wrote a book together about a lot of this. It’s a number 1 bestseller. “You, Me and Hypothyroidism.)

- Rachel Hill, thyroid patient advocate 🦋💙

🤯 The overwhelm can feel strong. What on earth

🤯 The overwhelm can feel strong. What on earth are we supposed to do?! We have suggestions coming at us let, right and centre.

💖 Make small, incremental and manageable changes.

🦶 When you come across some information that you would like to implement, for example speaking to your doctor about trying a different treatment, ordering more in depth testing, altering your diet (removing gluten, dairy or focusing on keeping blood sugar more balanced are all common), take small, manageable steps.

📈 Doing so means that you can track which changes are genuinely helping you, but also help to avoid feeling overwhelmed with too much to change all at once.

📈 When you take one step, see positive results and gain a little bit of energy back, perhaps less brain fog or other thyroid symptoms, this creates room for you to tackle another area and implement something else.

📈 When we take on too much change at once, it can be easy to feel overwhelmed and draw back on making any steps altogether. What we want to do is make sustainable improvements and this is best done while listening to our bodies and mental health and going at a pace that is manageable to us.

🦋 For example, I initially went gluten-free, saw huge benefits to symptoms such as brain fog and fatigue, and after another year also tried dairy-free. Two very common thyroid jigsaw puzzle pieces. 🧩

🦋 I found adjusting to a gluten-free diet a year earlier to be a huge transition alone and had I also gone dairy-free at the same time, I wouldn’t have kept it up past a few days.

🦋 I was dairy-free for several months before deciding that it wasn’t showing any benefit to me personally and went back to eating dairy. By only implementing this change, I could focus on the results, if any, from that intervention alone.

😴 One of the best places you can start is on optimising your sleep and rest time. Once this is optimised, you’ll find you have energy to tackle something else. 🙌

👇 What are your thoughts? And get my book “Be Your Own Thyroid Advocate” for more info like this! ✨

- Rachel Hill, thyroid patient advocate 🦋💙

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