Zrii vs. beta-blocker

Well, it has been a month now since I started taking 3-4oz Zrii daily for my Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis.  During the first week, I took my beta-blocker every evening when the heart palpitations started.  Incidentally, my cardiologist diagnosed the palpitations as being ‘premature ventricular contractions’, otherwise known as PVCs.  By the 5th day, I was beginning to think that my PVCs were lessening.  In the last three weeks, I have only taken 1 beta-blocker.  Why?  Because I have had NO PVCs!

About a week ago, I was thinking that maybe, just maybe, I could be healed of my Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis.  My theory is that if I am not having any antibody attacks, and if I could cut back on the Nature Thyroid without the antibody attacks starting again, then I could call myself healed.

Over the last week or so, I noticed that if I only took 1-2 oz of Zrii, then I would have a few PVCs.  Granted, they weren’t bad enough or lasted long enough to warrant taking a beta-blocker….but I still had a few PVCs, which meant that I was having an antibody attack.  So, this thought occurred to me:

If I have to take something for the rest of my life, or for several years, then I would rather take Zrii than beta-blockers.

Maybe Zrii won’t heal me, but, for me, it is better to take a natural supplement than to take heart-altering medications.

I need to continue documenting though, and I plan to share the information with my doctor next month.  In every forum or every Facebook group, people are talking about feeling terrible.  People are posting that they have never felt as good as they did before they were diagnosed.  Isn’t that depressing?  Here I am, diagnosed with Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis a little over 4 months ago, and everywhere I look on the Internet it is hopeless.  Maybe it is my attitude…maybe it is my faith…maybe it is my strength of mind – I don’t know.  I have never liked being sick, and I refuse to be sick.  Sure, I have had some days (especially over the summer), when I felt lousy – tired, listless, unmotivated, foggy, etc.  But even then, I had a choice.  Do I stay lying on that couch, or do I get up and be a wife and mother?  I chose to get up.  Since I felt lousy regardless if I was on the couch or making dinner…I might as well make dinner and enjoy the life I have with my family.

 

(Originally posted on HelpForHashis.com 11/7/2009 6:41:42 PM)