Let's review this timeline again:
July 2009 - symptoms begin, Kelly is convinced she has a tapeworm based on eating buttloads of food yet losing weight by the day. She poops in a jar and doctor says she's fine. She enjoys this random & drastic weight loss.
February 2010 - Kelly ends up in ER after a resting heart rate of 150+ for more than 24 hours. Diagnosed with Graves' disease, and finds out it's one of the most severe cases her physician has ever seen.
February 2011 - Kelly swallows a radioactive pill that will eventually kill her thyroid.
August 2011 - Pill finally works. Kelly becomes hypOthyroid the same week her eyes bug out of her head.
August 2011-August 2012 - Kelly and her endocrinologists struggle to find the correct dose of Synthroid. First she becomes hypER and endocrinologist continues to lower dose every six weeks. After a three-month hiatus from doctor's appointments and bloodwork, Kelly finds out she is hypO again and needs a higher dose.
August 2012 - For the first time in a long time (3+ years), Kelly has achieved euthyroid - meaning her thyroid levels are normal.
October 2012 - Just kidding. Kelly is hypER again and needs a lower dose.
January 2013 - Back to normal. Stay on the same dose. Test again in two months.
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I just hope this lasts. I feel good. I haven't had a sinus infection since I took antibiotics for the one I got right before Christmas. I've avoided the flu/colds everyone else seems to have succumbed to. I've lost 2.5lbs this week by staying under a strict calorie limit and exercising every day - either running (I'm training for a 5K), ashtanga yoga, or stability ball workouts. I no longer need a gym to feel motivated to exercise because seeing that small number on the scale is all the motivation I need to keep going. On days like today, however, it would be nice to be able to get a run in somewhere indoors, but interval training on a treadmill is a b*tch and I'm simply too cheap to pay to use a treadmill. Like I've said before, I could always use the gym at work but I'm trying not to spend a single second more than 40 hours a week here. I also purchased a FitBit Zip, although it seems like a glorified pedometer unless I'm doing something wrong (in that case, please enlighten me in the comments section). It actually doesn't work all the time - sometimes failing to count a single step during a 60-second walk around my house - and I thought it would work sort of like a heart monitor, counting extra calories burned during workouts, but it doesn't. I guess I didn't really know what I was buying even though I'd been eyeing it for months.
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