extreme metabolism increase!

[iceygirl]

has anyone ever had this happen for no apparent reason? on average, how much food do you eat per day? do you exercise? has anyone ever noticed that the amount of energy(food) their body required per day increased by a ton, so much so that you were concerned about weight gain, but started losing instead?

[enree erzweglle]

Get your thyroid checked. When mine went wonky, I lost 10# in maybe 2 weeks and attributed it to muscle loss after having just finished a long, long running season, but the weight loss was because my thyroid was overactive. Easy to diagnose (a simple blood teste) and easy to treat.

[iceygirl]

i guess i could do that

im not losing that much weight that fast-the thing that has made me notice this is the enormous amounts of food that my body now requires. like seriously a lot of food. i was mentioning it to my husband but he thought i was embellishing it until we had last week off together.

for instance it is like 11:30 and i have had a bowl of high protein/fiber organic cereal and just now ate probably 1/2 pound of beef. im just so hungry like constantly. i dont eat hardly any carbs, mostly nuts, seeds, meat, fresh vegetables and some fruits. in a year i somehow have quadrupled the amount of food that i eat, and i dont eat because its fun or what i want to do, i eat because my body needs it bad and i get dizzy, grumpy, shaky if i don't.

whats the treatment for thyroid?

p.s. i will be 29 years old this year and i have never looked better in my life. i find it suprising my body doing this at my age. most women my age are having the opposite problem with their bodies.

[Randetica]

43 days without sugar now

[enree erzweglle]

I became ravenously hungry too and I became that way before I started to drop weight quickly. I was enormously hungry and I'm usually not like that.

The treatments for a fast thyroid or for Graves disease (the symptoms of which include an overactive thyroid) vary. It's cheaper for insurance companies to push for a treatment called RAI, where you basically destroy the thyroid by drinking radioactive iodine, which is absorbed by and kills off the thyroid; then you have to take a thyroid/hormone replacement drug for the rest of your life. It's an easy drug to take and it's well tolerated. I know a lot of women who take it because they have little or no thyroid function.

Some doctors want to remove the thyroid or parts of it if a scan shows anything suspicious; if you remove the thyroid or part of it, you have to take thyroid/hormone replacement pills from then on.

Or you could find a doctor who is willing to treat an overactive thyroid with anti-thyroid medications. You can't take those drugs forever--you have to wean yourself from them because they suppress your body's immune system. But sometimes, you can get things under control that way and then avoid the more radical treatments.

I took that last approach. I have gotten to the point where I recognize the earliest of symptoms and I'll treat them with a tea made from stuff that I grow in the backyard, but that doesn't always work. When it doesn't work--if the symptoms progress--then I call my doctor, who orders a blood test and who, if necessary, puts me on rounds of anti-thyroid medications.

I chose to do that after doing independent research on treatment for Graves disease. I found in several medical journals and after talking with several endocrinologists that in Graves patients, RAI or thyroid surgery increases the rate of progress of the disease to the eyes (Graves can affect the eyes) and one study showed an unexplained sudden mortality rate with those treatments. I opted for treating it with medicine as needed. My doctor was dubious about that, but she willing to try it out; so far, so good (it's been several years and I have to go on the meds only when I'm terribly stressed out and the home therapies don't work--stress induces graves flareups). I manage the stress as much as I can and the rest, I deal with when it happens.

Sorry if this is too much info.

[iceygirl]

no, no, its not --

glad you are doing well enree

[enree erzweglle]

no, no, its not --

glad you are doing well enreeGood luck, iceygirl--hope you're just having some passing you're-really-hungry innocuous sort of thing.

[iceygirl]

yeah
perhaps spring fever

:P

[TurdBerglar]

i just ate 6 powdered donuts

[zorra_chiflada]

i want 6 powdered donuts

[Randetica]

44 days without sugar