My mother had hypothyroidism and had her thyroid removed in her 50s I believe. She takes synthroid. This turned out for me to be a huge contributing factor to my bad health. If you’ve never had hypothyroidism and most people don’t it is an awful thing. For years in my 30s I would get home from work tired and would decompress and rest on my bed. I’d then have to get up and help with homework or life maintenance around our house… only to not sleep well.
As far back as my mid-20s I wasn’t sleeping well. When your body falls apart it can take a long time to get worse which it did. My father got diagnosed for sleep apnea and did a sleep study. It helped him so I tried a sleep test as well. In 2003 I got diagnosed, to me it was mis-diagnosed, with sleep apnea. I got the breathing machine (cpap) and for about a year it helped some but I continued to wake up, have night sweats, irregular bowel movements and ‘mental dullness’. The mental dullness got worse as I got older. And who wouldn’t like to have a BM every day, regularly?
I love my mother and father but everyone has something they are born into or with. I am not just speaking negatively either. Some of these things are good and some are bad. It’s just how it works. I was born in the USA so even with some biological shortcomings I consider myself very lucky.
