One year in Australia and my chronic thyroid disease has resolved itself and my endocrinologist has successfully pulled me off medication.
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Reminds me of when I lived in mountain view, CA. After a bit of living there, my gut was EXTREMELY unhappy. I started to binary search my diet. Lo and behold, I started running all of my water in my apartment (yes, even cooking water) through a filter and I was cured. It didn't affect my apartment-mates or friends, just me. So weird. I had confirmation when I accidentally drank tap water at a friend's place and the symptoms came back.
Something in the water out there just hit me wrong.
@twodarek @mike @mwl @hacks4pancakes I found the farty German in-laws post, and it's INCREDIBLE. So much better than I remembered: https://www.reddit.com/r/BestofRedditorUpdates/comments/1b4g2uz/why_do_my_husband_and_i_experience_severe/
I was wrong about the distance (only 40-45 min by car), but the OP is an *amazing* writer. "Guys, I am not only flatulent, but also flattered and somewhat flabbergasted."
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One year in Australia and my chronic thyroid disease has resolved itself and my endocrinologist has successfully pulled me off medication.
@hacks4pancakes That's awesome!
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@nolsen311 @mike @mwl @hacks4pancakes Can I join you on the island that cures shitty things?
Fascism is the Crohn's of the political system. Crohn's is the fascism of the gastrointestinal tract. I can't decide if there is a joke in here or just the truth
I'm sure, working together, we can come up with some really shitty jokes about it.
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@mike @mwl @hacks4pancakes There was a really interesting reddit thread awhile back where a German couple tried to determine why they always got incredible flatulence when visiting in-laws. IIRC, they eventually concluded that the water interacted weirdly with their gut flora! But they tested a TON of different ideas.
There was a whole plot twist where they thought it didn't affect their kids... but the kids were just staying quiet while the parents debated it on the multi-hour drive home
@alexglow @mike @mwl @hacks4pancakes it’s more probable that this is due to the relatively high amount of either esp. rye or full-grain in the bread. Adult have a different set of bacteria in the bowels so that children are affecfar less from that.
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@Hasufin not really, but they were willing to be less medication focused here and try
@hacks4pancakes @Hasufin Hashimoto as a chronic inflammatory desease has different phases, starting hyperthyroidic, then eu(=normal)thyreodic and later hypothyroidic with need for external hormones. When in the hypothyroid phase it could accur that there are autonomous areas that start producing hormons esp when external
iod (like in jodized salt) is ingested. Ultrasound and szintigraphie recommended to look if such areas are present -
One year in Australia and my chronic thyroid disease has resolved itself and my endocrinologist has successfully pulled me off medication.
@hacks4pancakes
(You haven't been bitten by a mysterious spider, have you? Australia is dangerous that way, I've heard) -
One year in Australia and my chronic thyroid disease has resolved itself and my endocrinologist has successfully pulled me off medication.
@hacks4pancakes fantastic; congrats
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@mwl @hacks4pancakes honestly I can completely stop taking my insulin and control my blood glucose with diet and exercise when I leave the US, NBDJS.
@kusuriya @mwl @hacks4pancakes I went to the US for a week and none of this surprises me. It’s tragically bad.
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One year in Australia and my chronic thyroid disease has resolved itself and my endocrinologist has successfully pulled me off medication.
@hacks4pancakes Yay! Great news!
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One year in Australia and my chronic thyroid disease has resolved itself and my endocrinologist has successfully pulled me off medication.
@hacks4pancakes Congratulations Lesley!
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One year in Australia and my chronic thyroid disease has resolved itself and my endocrinologist has successfully pulled me off medication.
@hacks4pancakes Leaving the US has also helped me recover to where I no longer need certain daily meds. Congratulations, and here's to a better future!
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One year in Australia and my chronic thyroid disease has resolved itself and my endocrinologist has successfully pulled me off medication.
That's so great to hear! (and really frigging confusing, bodies are so weird) Congratulations!
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I have Questions.
@hacks4pancakes
Hmmm I have reduced my TPO autoantibodies by taking Selenium but it seems unlikely this would happen naturally as Australian soils are deficient in Selenium. How curious! I wonder if vitamin D could be a factor. -
@hacks4pancakes Leaving the US has also helped me recover to where I no longer need certain daily meds. Congratulations, and here's to a better future!
@pmbrent @hacks4pancakes Congratulations to both of you
️ May I ask why this happened? I‘ve Never been to the US, but it doesn‘t seem to be a healthy place at all 
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One year in Australia and my chronic thyroid disease has resolved itself and my endocrinologist has successfully pulled me off medication.
@hacks4pancakes A thank you to living in Australia.
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One year in Australia and my chronic thyroid disease has resolved itself and my endocrinologist has successfully pulled me off medication.
@hacks4pancakes It's so frustrating how things like mental health and dentistry have systemic effects, but social systems for them frequently don't exist even in countries with free or low-cost public healthcare systems. :S
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@gusseting I’ve been battling hashimotos for ten years. I almost died.
@hacks4pancakes
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Reminds me of when I lived in mountain view, CA. After a bit of living there, my gut was EXTREMELY unhappy. I started to binary search my diet. Lo and behold, I started running all of my water in my apartment (yes, even cooking water) through a filter and I was cured. It didn't affect my apartment-mates or friends, just me. So weird. I had confirmation when I accidentally drank tap water at a friend's place and the symptoms came back.
Something in the water out there just hit me wrong.
@twodarek
@alexglow @mike @mwl @hacks4pancakes
That's weird, because Mountain View's water is mostly Hetch-Hetchy, i.e., mostly snow melt (this was a thing I "knew", I double-checked, 87%): https://www.mountainview.gov/our-city/departments/public-works/water-and-sewer-services/water/our-water-sources -
@pmbrent @hacks4pancakes Congratulations to both of you
️ May I ask why this happened? I‘ve Never been to the US, but it doesn‘t seem to be a healthy place at all @hacks4pancakes @hobo_ahoi @pmbrent
Pretty much every American is medicated. ADHD (speed) is common. So are anti depressants & anti anxiety meds. We don't have healthcare & copay for meds even when we have coverage through a job. In addition, where it's legal we have cannabis dispensaries. They are one of the only new businesses that does well here. Capitalism is abusive. We need drugs to feel even semi ok about the exploitation & suffering.
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@hacks4pancakes @hobo_ahoi @pmbrent
Pretty much every American is medicated. ADHD (speed) is common. So are anti depressants & anti anxiety meds. We don't have healthcare & copay for meds even when we have coverage through a job. In addition, where it's legal we have cannabis dispensaries. They are one of the only new businesses that does well here. Capitalism is abusive. We need drugs to feel even semi ok about the exploitation & suffering.
@FranceskaMann @hacks4pancakes @pmbrent Wow, thanks a lot for the explanation
And that makes me truly sad. Profits at the cost of healthcare 
