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Have just asked this question on the AF forum. Does anybody feel they have a finite amount of energy to use during the day and once that’s gone they struggle?

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Absolutely! That's a well-known feeling, I'm afraid.

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That was brilliant. Thank you.

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You're welcome. :)

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Just read your profile. I’m sure I too was hypo long before diagnosed. Had carpal tunnel operated on, right elbow too. Can remember being asked in my early 30s were my palms always orange!!

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I don't know that orange palms are a symptom of hypo, never heard of that! Mine are bright red, except in the middle. No doctor has ever been able to tell me why!

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Build up of beta carotene. Need the thyroid to convert to vitamin A

Took them two years to diagnose gall stones about the same time and see there is a connection there too.

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Pathetic, isn't it! :(

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Convinced medicine is an art not a science

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I think it's a little bit of both. But, most doctors are technicians, rather than artists or scientists!

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My French Dr is an artist but his paintings are very dark!!

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Sounds ominous! lol

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If I remember correctly it is known as a spoon theory. You have that many spoons of energy (like spoons of sugar let's say 8-)) a day and if you spend your spoons till they are empty there is no energy left till replenish it again, usually next day after a couple of days. The trick is to know how many 'spoons' you have on daily basis and not to overspend...

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Thank you, Grey Goose also shared that analogy yesterday. At least in this weather I haven’t expended many spoons the last two days.

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Absolutely!

I was originally diagnosed with ME and fibromyalgia.

Two years later, Dr Sarah Myhill diagnosed, correctly, underactive thyroid that was long missed by the NHS.

For 18 years, I have had a certain, low, level of physical/cognitive energies, and when it's used up, I have to sit and rest in silence - no noise, images, pc etc. Just to let my brain rest and hope that the next day I'll feel a bit replenished and can start pacing again.

Optimising my NDT [currently on 3.5 grains daily] was critical in helping me move from bedridden to be able to get out 2-3 times a week for a couple of hours with luck, but I am still far from 'normal' and I became sick at 33.

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Have just read your profile, you do seem to really be growing through it. I have been very lucky with my treatment although the newest Dr at our Surgery flatly refused to let me see an endo. I just steer clear of her now!

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