Hi Rydia! (a new friend, yea!)

Well, almost five months out from the fibroid treatment (no cutting, just lots of ultrasound) and my waistline has gotten smaller and I've dropped a few pounds without trying. I'm not skinny yet, but I don't feel like I'm a few months pregnant anymore, so it must have worked. I've also stopped my birth control after 20+ years (yep, it's that time, I'm a little early) and am trying to cope with all the fun things like hot flashes on my own as the hormone treatments will all make the fibroids grow back. I should have stopped the bc pills years ago, but the fear of migraines scared me.

I've also began taking thyroid medicine (despite all of my borderline TSH tests) and my energy level is much higher, though I still have the other exciting side effects of fibromyalgia and MS to deal with, but I've actually gotten up the energy to go skating around my neighborhood a few times (then the rain and cold returned). For anything you ever wanted to know about thyroid problems check out www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/

But the extra energy is coming in handy with the holidays almost here. The thought of Christmas just exhausts me, I always want to just jump from Halloween to mid-January. Too many family birthdays (including mine), too much money, too much guilt, too much traffic :-) But I do like eggnog and good fruitcake ( www.collinstreet.com/ ) so I press on ;-)