Some Progress

I'm happy to say my daughter has improved again. It's from silymarin, so I'm glad she had that blood test done.

Now we need to find out what is causing her thyroid to be on the high side. She used to be low on it, until she got a flu one winter that got her fever up to 102 or 3, which was probably a couple of degrees more because of her lower body temp. That got her thyroid back in the normal range and she improved from that.

It's just such a relief when I see her up and doing more. She made a very nice dinner a couple of days ago and I expected her to be extra tired the next day, but she wasn't too bad, other than her constant headache. The day she made dinner, she didn't have much of one at all, which is rare.

This may allow her to take enough college courses so she won't lose her college fund we set up when she was little. They extended it once, but probably won't do it again. Our doc did send a letter saying she's disabled from chronic fatigue I think, since Lyme disease wouldn't work.

She may sink more once the rainy season gets going, but hopefully that will show improvement too. Her sleep cycle improved this year too, so that will help.

I'm so ready to see her start her life again!

Yes she does! She has been sick since she was 8 or 9, that we could see, and she's 26 now. Her symptoms came on gradually and she hasn't been horribly sick, but sick enough to not be able to work or go to school. Some of the treatments she had done over the years helped to keep her from getting real bad, before she was diagnosed 3 years ago.

That's terrific news! May she continue to see even more progress.

Thank you everyone. The test will come when the dark days of winter settle in, but for now she has had several good days, being more active and less tired and her headaches have toned down.

The college will allow her to miss classes or tests and make them up when she feels up to it. They will tell her teachers that she can read faster on the computer than she can with books, so they'll do something to help her there too. We never brought up Lyme

She had started college when she was 16 and did well. She was a very fast reader and would come home with a big stack of books to read every time we took her to the library when she was a kid. The librarians could always tell when she was back, because of the stack of books on the counter. They really enjoyed her.

She had a Chinese herbal that really cleared up her mind a lot. I think that was close to a year ago. She was really struggling before that. Whatever it did is still holding.

Now I need to call our doc and see what he plans on doing to bring her thyroid levels down. She's having some anxiety from that, so I want to nip it in the bud. He said he has an herbal for it, but I don't want her to wait until her appt. to start it.