Miracle to share, and I'm living proof!

So, over the last two years or so (probably a lot longer, but let's just start there for shits and giggles) I've been having some health issues.  Knowing the health problems that some people in my family have had, makes it even more of a nightmare to think about at my age.  I refuse to BE unhealthy, however, I haven't been HEALTHY either.  I was a caffeine abuser, to the extreme.  I was a sugar addict, and carbs addict (I'm sure some of you can totally relate to this!) and on top of ALL of that, I felt like SHIT.  The gaining weight, sleepless nights, exhausting days.....man, I was TIRED of being SICK and TIRED all of the time!!!  It plain SUCKED!! 

I thought that that was the worst of it.  You know, eat shitty, feel shitty, right?  Yet I didn't have the motivation to change it.  I was lazy, and getting fatter by the second.  No exaggeration.  At all.  Disgusting!

Back in September in 2014 I was diagnosed and treated with thyroid cancer.  That freaking word.  Cancer.  Seriously.  Not so scary unless YOU have it, huh?  Well, being a single mom, with a child with a disability, I NEED to be here.  Be here AND be healthy.  Right? 

Testing, blood work, treatment plan, then treated, but STILL, feeling like complete CRAP, and most days I couldn't even function.  I was grouchy, I HATED being in my own skin, because of the exhaustion, and none of it was becoming better.  Even AFTER my RAI treatment, still crappy. 

Fast forward (because I don't need to make you fall asleep while you're reading this) 

December 2014.....STILL feeling crappy...still exhausted (not the usual tired kind of exhaustion, more like, I ran a marathon and can't move kind) and no sign of a light at the end of the tunnel.  SUPER frustrated, and still wanting to NOT be me.  HATING being in my own skin.  NOT a good feeling.  AT ALL.

Symptoms....let's just say, I had some of the MOST crazy things happening to my body, and I won't go into details, but they were totally nuts!  I JUST wanted to FEEL like myself again, the rest, I could DEAL with.  The exhaustion was just PART of the problem.  I hurt.  My ENTIRE body was in excruciating pain. 

Oh, one thing about me....I REFUSE to take pain killers, and REFUSE to NOT know what the HELL is going on with me. REFUSE. 

More testing.  More blood work (at this point, I've given enough blood for tests to fill a swimming pool and my arms look like I'm some sort of walking junkie!) and more tests.  Now my doctors are concerned and are sending me to more doctors which are giving me MORE tests and taking MORE blood.  Clearly, they have NO idea what's going on, which is making it more stressful and causing more pain.  Yup.  NOT so good stuff. 

Finally my Endocrinologist referred me to her colleague and they started working together to figure out what the HELL was going on. 

In the meantime, I was "diagnosed" with let's see......Autoimmune diseases (including BOTH MS and Hashimoto's Disease) and "probable" other things (won't even GO there, because "probable" means SHIT to me, unless it's a "DEFINITE", it means keep testing!)  and to this day, I'm STILL in the midst of getting all of the test results back.......HOWEVER.......this is where it becomes crazy AWESOME!!!

Let me digress for a minute here, to before September last year.  I had ordered some products from some friends, (please understand, I'm a HUGE HUGE skeptic!) and totally doubted that these products would help me in ANY WAY.  Right?  Tell me I'm NOT alone there!!!  HA!
Ordered, and decided I was going to take control of my weight and my LIFE again.  Tired of being tired, shttiest feeling EVER!!

The package arrived, went grocery shopping and started my 21 Day Fix with Shakeology.  Okay, I know what you're thinking.....no WAY did it help, right?  You thought that, didn't ya?  Well.  You're WRONG.  So was I!  To my unbelievable surprise, not only did I feel AMAZINGGGGG, but I lost a SHIT TON of weight!  I did TWO rounds of the 21 Day Fix (for those people who attended NHS with me, that would be 42 days of the "fix")  and Shakeology (which is part of the program) and I LOVED IT!!!  Felt great, lost 35 lbs and most of all, I QUIT my caffeine addiction!!  No lie.  Crazy, right?  You would THINK that I would have kept going....but, combined with the fact that I was seeing an Endocrinologist, and finding the cancer, I totally stopped.  Stupid. 

Okay....back to the future here...let's fast forward to two weeks ago. 
Still seeing doctors, it's become a full time job, every single day it was SOMETHING for me to get done, Dr. appts, tests, labs, blah blah blah.  Only reason I was STILL dong it, was because I LITERALLY felt like DEATH.  Even sat down and spoke with my boyfriend and my son, and spoke about "if anything happens to me", you know, the talk you NEVER want to have.  ESPECIALLY at 45 years old.  Stupid crazy to me.

Well, after seeing the Endo and the Specialist AGAIN, they decided it was time to do Nuclear Testing on me.  Yup, you guessed it, I FREAKED OUT.  NUCLEAR WHAT!!??  Waaaaaaait a minute here, I don't need to glow in the dark, on TOP of all of the other shit I was dealing with!!  What the HELL!!??  THANKFULLY my doctors are AWESOME and talked me through all of the WHAT, WHERE, WHY, HOW and WHAT THE HELLS that I had.  They were AMAZING and I couldn't BE more blessed with them!!  So.  Monday (last week) was lab work, Tuesday started the testing, and was done with it on Wednesday.  Three day testing.  Fun!  Actually it was easier than I anticipated, and totally painless (thank GOD because I couldn't handle ANY more pain than I already had!) and walked out of there, still in pain, and still waiting for answers.  Frustrating to say the least!

Okay, need to know here, blood work is SUPER important for me to have the results ON PAPER so that I can see any changes and compare changes to my symptoms.  Keeping a journal of this, because of the pain, wasn't an EASY task, but I have been keeping up with all of it. WRITING was PAINFUL, and I HATED it!  Typing, brushing my hair, my teeth, ALL painful TORTURE.  Never mind putting clothes on.  THAT sucked.  Hands down it was the WORST!

Okay, okay.....SQUIRREL!!  I keep getting off track, which is one of my symptoms, believe it or not.  The NORMAL ADHD that I USUALLY have, is SOOOOOOOO much worse.  Forgetting things, ha, was like I had early onset Alzheimer's!  Awful!

Anywho.....moving on to the Thursday afternoon after my Nuclear Testing stuff....gave 17 viles of blood that afternoon and added urine tests on top (maybe for good luck?) let me just tell you how much fun THAT was!!  Blah!

My Endo called me that Friday.  She gave me the results of her portion of the testing that week.  Along with the AMAZING results of NO MORE CANCER, there was more......onto the blood work.  According to the labs, my test results have been EXACTLY the same as far as my TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone) level, it was non-detectable.  Zero.  Zilch.  SUCKKOOOO!!!  Plus, my FREE T levels were crazy high, and none of my levels were changing.  None.  Six freaking months.  Why didn't they put me on meds, you ask?  Because I NEEDED to know WHY this was happening, finding out the ROOT CAUSE in all of this.  THAT is the ONLY way we could treat the symptoms, as far as my doctors and I are concerned.  BELIEVE ME, I would have taken relief, except I refuse to take anything except Advil.  That probably wasn't normal for the doctors to hear nowadays.  Either way, I wanted ANSWERS, not guesses, and I wanted a DEFINITIVE answer!  I DESERVE that.  Plus, if this is something I HAVE to deal with for this long, a few more weeks isn't going to matter.  Well, as long as I don't hurt anyone along the way.  Heh heh heh.....(KIDDING---GEESHHHHH, I'm not some asshole!) 

So what she told me, took me some serious time to absorb, and to actually hit me.  My levels (the ones that haven't budged in 6 months?) had changed, and my TSH is ACTUALLY RISING!!!  WHATTTTTT!!??  Yup.  TSH level looks like it's normalizing, andddddd my Free T levels are becoming lower, which means that my thyroid IS still functioning, still enlarged, but STILL WORKING!!!  HURRAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!  Gah, I was really starting to believe it wasn't, and that I would have to have it removed.  Which would be fine, however, that also imposes a WHOLE SET of new issues, and if that was to happen, this post would be a WHOLE different story, right!?   Okay, so, let's recap:  Testing, Labs, Doctors, More tests, more labs, more doctors.  Got it?  Good.  Now.  THe last blood tests that I gave my Endo were the Monday of my tests, and then again on Thursday I had more labs, right?  Remember that?  Well, according to those, my levels are STARTING to move, after six months.  Good, right?  Good is an understatement for me.  This is FANTASTIC.  I knew I FELT a change, I mean, my pain STARTED to change.....I started feeling different within that last week.  TOTALLY different.  Looks like I'm heading in the right direction!!  YES!!  YAY ME!!  Let's get to the GOOD part here, cuz this is the part that totally (I consider) a miracle! 

So during this insanity that I call my life, I had been talking with my boyfriend about re-starting the Shakeology and 21 Day Fix program (it's amazing, if you have questions contact me, because I CAN help you with buying it, discounts, and will coach you along the way too!) to be honest, I totally WANTED to do it, but was questioning DOING it because of the extreme pain I was in.  I mean, I couldn't even take my trash out, how the HELL was I going to WORK out?  Right!?  See?  Crazy.  SOOOOOO.......I ordered it, I mean, what do I have to LOSE at THIS point in the game?  Screw it!  Called my girl Brooke, and told her the SUPER condensed version of what I was dealing with, what was going on, and what I wanted to DO about it.  Ordered.  DONE!  Also wanted the biggest discount I could get, right?  Don't we ALL?  So I did what ANY normal human being would do, I sign on to be a coach, WITH a discount, and WITH discounts for ALL future purchases.  BAM!  DONE!  Now.....the waiting game, I know it takes time for it to be delivered, but c'mon, I want it NOW!!  (in my BEST Verruca Salt voice!)

Received the package, tore that shit open, and made a shake RIGHT that second.  Yup.  SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO excited and happy that I did!  Why, you ask?  WHY?  I mean, well, it's DELISH, but besides that, I felt AMAZING the last time I did it.  Energy, strength, JOYYYYYYYYY!!  Yup.  Shakeology is my breakfast EVERY SINGLE DAY.  Let's get to the GREAT stuff here.......

So remember the talk with my Endo, about my levels improving?  Okay.  The ONLY thing that I changed over the last 6 months?  SHAKEOLOGY.  THE ONLY THING I CHANGED!!!!!!  Of COURSE I talked to ALL of my doctors about it, because I didn't want any issues.  I mean, do you BLAME me?  Funny thing, two of my doctors actually DRINK Shakeology daily.  Cool!  It's SAFE, its PACKED with vitamins, minerals, nutrients, from here on, I will call Shakeology "SHAKEO CRACK" It's seriously the BEST addiction I've ever had, I mean comparing it to my caffeine, sugar and carb addiction, it's a no-brainer!!  So, BEYOND the PROOF with my BLOOD TEST results, over the last year or two, to compare them all, the difference in levels, and the doctors reaction?  HA!  Ya, I won't be stopping the Shakeo Crack ANYTIME SOON, or later, for that matter!!!


The proof.....it's ME......and if it hadn't happened to ME, I wouldn't believe it for ONE second!!  Witnesses?  Oh, I have PLENTY of those, and proof of my symptoms, my pain, my uselessness over the last year or more, got that too, but the MOST AMAZING PART OF ALL OF THIS??  I haven't taken Advil (after taking doses EVERY DAY for a year or more) in almost TWO WEEKS!!  You guessed it, MY PAIN has DRASTICALLY subsided.  I CAN MOVE AGAIN!!  I CAN WALK AGAIN!!  I AM SMILING AGAIN!!  Even WORKING OUT AGAIN!!!  Miracle.  Say it with me, MIRACLE!!!  Again, I wouldn't have BELIEVED it, if it didn't happen to ME!!! 

Comment on this post if you would like more info on these products, I will be SO happy to spread the HAPPY HEALTHY stuff with you, and YOU can share it with everyone that YOU know too!!  Leave a comment, follow my posts, email, call, whatever, I'm right here!  HOPEFULLY I will be writing and posting videos now that I can FUNCTION, SMILE, and MOVE again!!

Hip-Hip-HOOOORRRRRAAAAAYYYYYY!!!!

THIS is LIVING life, and THIS is getting BETTER and THIS WILL be ME again, SOONER than we ALL thought possible.  SOONER.  NOT later!!!

For today.....my post is finished, but there is MUCH more to write, seeing the doctors for more results at the end of May, and I WILL keep you updated with MORE good news!!

Until then...

XO  Jilly