It’s been almost three weeks since I upped my thyroid dosage to 60 & 30. Today I went up to 60 & 60.

I haven’t seen much improvement with the increase but I guess it takes a long time to really see it. Last week, we were at the beach all week and I totally disconnected from the internet (my phone and iPad were off all week). So you would THINK with the reduced stress, I would see some symptoms improve.

I actually felt pretty good most of the week. But my face started breaking out like crazy (even worse than it was!). I thought at first it was the sunscreen but now I don’t know. I haven’t had any sunscreen on in three days and I’m not seeing any improvements. We’ll see.

I took the iron up until the 3rd of September. I forgot it when I went out of town for work and then we left for vacation and I just didn’t want to take it. It throws my stomach all out of whack with cramping, etc, and….here comes the TMI part….it causes constipation. I decided I didn’t want to deal with that on vacation. I did notice that last week for the first time in a long time, it was normal when I went to the bathroom – I generally alternate between diarrhea or constipation. I started taking it again on Saturday night. With taking it at night, I at least sleep through the cramping!

The brain fog started after our dinner out on Wednesday night but wasn’t TOO bad. It just didn’t feel quite right. I sent my dinner back after it came out swimming in butter (after telling them I had a dairy allergy) and I’m not entirely sure they remade it before bringing it back out.

Then on Friday night, we went to a pizza place who claimed to have gluten free pizza and vegan cheese. So I ordered that and within an hour, I started not feeling great again. I really didn’t even make the connection then because what I ate was suppose to be safe! When we got home Saturday, I ate another piece and within just a little bit, the brain fog increased. Needless to say, the rest went in the trash!

I just really don’t trust restaurants any more. I’m so sick of getting sick on food that I should be fine with according to them! The brain fog could be thyroid related but it seems weird that it would come and go if that was the case. I can almost always tie it back to when we went out to eat or we cooked some packaged food at home that didn’t specifically say gluten free.

So as annoying as it is, I’m hoping it’s from gluten/dairy or thyroid. As long as it’s not Lyme, I’m a happy camper!