Hormones, who needs them? Oh yeah, I do.

Before I had Baby #1 I got super sick with Mono and needed to take a steroid called prednisone to reduce swelling of my tonsils in order to breath.  Ever since then I have had CRAZY woman stuff going on.  This stuff has been going on for over 7 years.  I've seen multiple OBs about it and they all said as long as I was able to get pregnant it wasn't an issue.  Well, it wasn't an issue until I started having a period every two weeks.  Then it became a big issue for me and I found a doctor that was willing to do a whole panel of blood tests to see what was going on.  Turns out I have a whole boat load of Hormonal crap wrong with me.  I found out just before Christmas 2012 that I have low progesterone which is what was causing my period's to be super crazy as well as the rest of me.  (Zoloft was my friend during pregnancy #4)  After taking the progesterone for a few days my body decided it didn't need to hold onto the water it thought it so desperately needed and I lost 7+ lbs overnight.  I also have high testosterone which means I probably have PCOS, but since I can have children there isn't anything to be done about that.  Here's the kicker.  I have been tested time and time again for thyroid issues because I have a lot of the symptoms of hypothyroidism and they all came back that my thyroid is fine.  This time the doctor did a more comprehensive test and found that I do in fact have hypothyroidism, so now I am on a million and one drugs that should regulate my body and help me to be successful with weight loss.  The symptoms that I have that should be resolved by me going on medication are being cold all the time, a decrease in mental sharpness, low energy and slow metabolism.  I already see a difference in my brain's ability to respond quicker which is great because that was the main reason I felt I needed to be tested again.  If you think you may have some of these symptoms contact your doctor immediately.  I wish I would have caught these problems sooner.  There's no reason to have to deal with these problems unnecessarily.