No longer measuring my life with coffee spoons !

[AnitaApple]

I always used to have a cup of coffee to kick start my day and also enjoyed the odd cappuccino with friends but now I find the taste of coffee really horrible . Is that a side effect of my hypothyroidism or my body telling me that I shouldn't touch it ?

[Hidden]

Hello AnitaApple, it never happened to me in fact coffee tasted a whole lot better when I became hypo. The only time I went off the taste of coffee was when I was pregnant! However, having said that I think there is something in the fact that your body could be telling you something, I have always had a gag reflex for salmon and soy, turns out I have an intolerance for both - so perhaps we should listen to our bodies.

[shaws Administrator]

I think sometimes our bodies tell us to avoid something. For me at present, I have gone off eggs completely. I used to take them without any bother at all.

Maybe it's a combination of the meds we take as well that can cause a change. (just a guess).

[Hidden in reply to shaws]

That's really interesting shaws, the exact same thing has happened to me. Have just had to give up on eggs, every time I try them I just feel yucky afterwards, much the same as when I used to try salmon. I even tried organic eggs, but to no avail.

Hope its not a continuing trend!!

[dina7]

I love coffee but always know when I'm really ill 'cos I can't even bear the thought of it then. I'd say it's your body telling you not to touch it ... but that it might not be permanent.

[nightingale-56]

Hi AnitaApple, I always go off coffee if I am not well, but a fortnight ago after having been off it since operation in mid-~February I really felt like a cup. Also felt as though I had a bit more energy. Always listen to your body.

[greygoose]

Totally agree! Listen to your body. I've got this thing about liver paté at the moment. And I know I'm low on iron, so I guess that's why. If I want liver paté, I eat liver paté. Your body knows what it needs.

[AnitaApple in reply to greygoose]

I agree though pre going on medication my body kept telling me it was ok to skip breakfast and then it would ask me to finish off all the biscuits at work ! Thankfully not any more 👍😄🍰

[greygoose in reply to AnitaApple]

Hmmm... I think that was you, not your body! lol

[Hidden in reply to greygoose]

Reminds me of when I was pregnant (Yes, my memory is that good!!) couldn't get enough tomatoes, tinned, fresh it didn't matter.

[greygoose in reply to Hidden]

When I was pregnant - all three times - it was oranges. Couldn't get enough of them!

[Hidden in reply to greygoose]

At least it would have kept you regular!!

[greygoose in reply to Hidden]

Ummm... to be honest, I Don't remember.

[Hidden in reply to greygoose]

Sorry I was being a bit flippant, I wouldn't remember either - I am sure the tomatoes could have had a similar effect! To be honest I don't remember too much about the event, except being told off by the doctor when I didn't turn up to see him until I was 5 months - so what, you are going to tell me something I already know!

[greygoose in reply to Hidden]

I try not to think about it. My pregnancies were not the most wonderful periods of my life.

Don't they just love to tell you off! With my first, I got told off for putting on too much weight. I put on two stones, but lost every ounce the day I gave birth! With the third, I got told of for losing weight!!! As if you have any control over these things! Had I felt better - never felt so ill in my life as I did with my third pregnancy - there would have been a few headless doctors and midwives around! But as it was, I just wanted to curl up in a ball, and ignore it all. I really, really Don't want to think about all that...

[Hidden in reply to greygoose]

Sorry GG didn't mean to bring back bad memories for you - hope everything turned out OK for you in the end.

[greygoose in reply to Hidden]

Well, I had three lovely babies, who turned out to be three lovely people, so I guess it did. lol

[thyroidnodules in reply to greygoose]

i too ate lots of oranges when I was pregnant. when my son was born he had really bad colic and after speaking to other they had a similar experience

[greygoose in reply to thyroidnodules]

Well, my babies didn't have colic. I can't see that the oranges would be responsible for that - they don't go directly into the baby. It's all filtered through the mother, first.

[thyroidnodules in reply to greygoose]

yes it does but what we eat and drink still affects them hence not smoking drinking alcohol warnings etc medications and so forth. everyone is different - I only know my other two children didn't have colic and I never ate oranges with them. maybe a coincidence though

[greygoose in reply to thyroidnodules]

Maybe.

[shaws Administrator in reply to Hidden]

I remember pregnancies as a wholly miserable period when I couldn't face any food whatsoever and lost weight. I couldn't go into shops where any food was, permanent nausea night/day. I didn't want to or even think of it. Thankfully the girls I worked with used to get anything they thought and got my shopping at lunchtime and husband would cook his.

[Hidden in reply to shaws]

I feel a bit guilty saying I never felt better, apart from a week or two of nausea around 3 months. That must have been horrendous - was it the same problem Kate M suffered with? Don't imagine she had to do the cooking though!!!!

[shaws Administrator in reply to Hidden]

I think it must have been the same but unfortunately, I didn't have a 'handle to my name' It was for whole of the term not just the three months.

I was incapable, with the second I vomited anywhere couldn't bear the smell or thought of food. You have brought back memories. When son was due I went to the ante-natal and doctor demonstrated that I had made a mistake in my dates by measuring my stomach. So he told the midwives that this lady has made a mistake and she should have measured around middle stomach about 42 but she is only 36 so has a while to go. Baby arrived next day and had a skinny Mum

My sister blossomed throughout her pregnancies as do many.

[Hidden in reply to shaws]

Sounds like utter misery, a couple of weeks was bad enough! Ha! seems like doctors have a lot to answer for whichever branch they specialise in. I hope you were able to tell the doctor that s(he) made the mistake - not you. All sounds very familiar doesn't it, nothing much has changed.

[shaws Administrator in reply to Hidden]

The midwives were good (I had a home birth) and they thought it was amusing that doctor was wrong.

[humanbean]

If I supplement with vitamin C I go off citrus fruit. Conversely, if I am not supplementing vitamin C for a while I start to crave citrus fruit.

[Hidden in reply to humanbean]

If I eat an orange I then come down with a cold! My husband didn't believe me, I can drink whole orange juice without problem but peel and eat one, stinking cold follows!

[thyroidnodules in reply to Hidden]

I am the same if I supplement with vitamin c tonic lol

[Raucous]

I do think it is good to listen to your body, however it is also possible for people to crave things that aren't good for them but because they have become addicted (sugar, salt, alcohol, many unhealthy foods) or it has become a habit. My sister was also told by a chinese medicine doctor that if you are wanting to consume something in large quantities it could actually mean you are allergic to it !! (at the time she was drinking large amounts of milk and felty much better when she stopped drinking it altogether). So as always - it can be complicated