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Well, earlier in this digest, which is later in my posts... And about two

weeks ago, something popped up which I had posted about a month ago. I made a

comment that I'm on digest and it had taken two weeks for my comment to post.

I'll repeat as best I can.... I apologize for the details... I tend to use

more words than necessary to get the point across.

Way back in the day when I was pregnant with my son (his 26th birthday is

this month) I was silly enough to go snow skiing. Well, with my belly swollen at

5 months pregnant and my ankles in ski boots, I couldn't bend down to buckle

my safety strap (boy is this dating me). Prego me pushed my uphill leg further

uphill until I could reach it to buckle and without even skipping a beat,

leaned down to buckle the downhill strap. I heard a crack and felt such a pain,

I

thought I had broken my leg. Turned out I stretched and tore the ligaments

which gave me the support in my left knee. (Being pregnant, the hormones had

begun to loosened my joints in preparation for childbirth.) For most of the rest

of my pregnancy I had a cast from my hip to my ankle. Afterwards my knee would

go out with the slightest lateral movement or tap to the lateral side of my

left knee. It would swell to the size of a basket ball and I'd be out of

commission with my leg up above my heart for about a week. (From 22 to 38 years

of

age).

When my son was 11 I had his sister, I was working a full schedule and going

to night school, but within a short time was so sick and tired all the time I

was barely able to finish up my classes. I had extreme corporal tunnel, in my

wrists, elbows and shoulders. My thought processes slowed down to the point I

would struggle to keep hold of a single thought and finish working it through.

I feel asleep in front of my computer at work even after sleeping 12 hours

the night before. I kept going to my doctor asking him why I felt so badly, he

kept telling me I had just had a child and that I wasn't the kid I had been

when I had my son, that I was just getting old. I went to my OB/GYN because

after

stopping breast feeding I didn't have a period for six months. The OB/GYN

caught the thyroid, and sent me back to my regular doctor, who put me on

Synthroid.

I had all of the same symptoms and so many sinus and upper respiratory

infections over the next couple of months, I used up all of my sick leave at

work,

and had to see the doctor after hours. Luckily my regular doctor didn't keep

after hours, so I ended up with a doctor who specialized in Diabetics. I told

him I had looked into thyroid medication and even though my regular doctor kept

telling me my tests results were normal, that I felt as bad and was even more

sick than before. I had asked my regular doctor to switch me to Armour,

because of the research and reading I had done, but he refused. The Diabetic

specialist said that he had anecdotal evidence from his patients that the ones

who

had switched over not only had their test results normal, but had become

UN-symptomatic too, so he switched me.

I went back to the OB/GYN because I still didn't have a period and he gave me

something which he said would bring my period on. I tore up my office and

then called him to ask him if there was something in what he had prescribed that

would cause a violent or extreme change in my mood. He told me he had given me

the same hormone at high doses which caused PMS. He said I should get my

period within a week. It didn't come, so he then tested me and we found out I

was

pregnant. I ended up loosing the baby by the second week.

Fast forward a couple years... I was taking three grains and was

contemplating upping my dose when nine years ago I decided to take a Bowen

Therapy

workshop to become certified in Bowen. The first session was about four days and

within a short time after the workshop instead of increasing my dosage, I had

been

able to decrease it to two grains. The instructor worked on my knee, which

was out at the time, and there was no change.

I scheduled the second session and had a lot of hope that my thyroid would be

normal within a short amount of time. During the second session, my knee was

out again. The instructor made a movement off my sacrum and told me to walk

around the table. The first step I took, I heard " SNAP " and my knee when back

into place. (The Bowen move on the sacrum was the first in a series of movements

which had restored fertility to childless couples. Apparently because my knee

went out when I was pregnant, there was a sacral connection to the injury.)

After years of no lateral support in my left knee, I suddenly was able to do

things I had given up, aerobics, dancing, skating, skiing etc...

I decided to take a leap of faith, and from that point on, didn't take my

Armour. My periods have been like clock work, at the full moon, up to about

three

months ago. The last two have been alternating at the full and new moons, six

weeks apart. I've also noticed my weight is going up, with no change in

either my diet or physical activity. Also I've had two upper respiratory

infections

which both lasted three weeks over the last three months, when prior the

longest I've been sick was three days. So I've been concerned that the

hypothyroid

symptoms are returning.

Since the Bowen second session, I have been able to dance, ski, you name it

and no issues with my knee what so ever. Not even a nervous twinge, up until

about a couple of years ago when I decided to move a heavy box of stuff and

store it at the space in the corner at the head of my bed. I was crawling across

the bed with the box over my head and my knee went out. I barely got the box

down on the floor and rolled off the bed. I couldn't stand so I crawled to the

door on the hard floor, as I crawled on the hard surface, my knee went right

back into place. My knee has gone out since, whenever I've crawled on a soft

surface, but will go back in once I crawl on a hard surface again. It hasn't

swollen, until just the last time it went out, less than a week ago.

Since my knee has regressed a bit, I figured the hypothyroid could be

following, so I decided to join this group to see what has been happening since

I had

my thyroid issues. I plan on retaking the second session of Bowen, although

my instructor is no longer teaching, I'm supposed to be able to retake it

anytime I want to (without cost). I'm just checking into classes and finding

someone who will honor my instructor's promise.

I'm also considering taking the third session, as that would enable me to

teach Bowen as an instructor. The other issues are that I have two separate paid

opportunities to continue my education, either becoming an RN and onto a Nurse

Practitioner or an HD. I'm leaning towards the Homeopathic Doctor route,

because it is much more in line with my Eastern Medicine point of view. I'm not

too sure I could deal with Western medical training now.

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