Update – Weaning Off Thyroxine/T3, and Third Month of Thyroid Healing Cleanse

It’s been two and a half weeks since I completely finished all thyroxine (T4 hormone) and T3 compound hormone (under direction and assistance of my doctor), and almost three months since I started the thyroid healing cleanse. I am also in my third week of Cleanse A – Liver, Lymphatic and Gut Release month.

Negative Symptoms In Last Two Weeks

The detox process off the meds has been interesting. In the last two weeks I’ve had both hyper and hypo-thyroid symptoms, the worst I’ve probably felt for some time, experiencing all of the following:

1. Back/shoulder joint pain/inflammation causing two lots of three day headaches/brain fog (one in the first week and another the second week). I walked around with an ice pack strapped to my back and had the brain function of what I can only describe as ‘zombie-like’.

2. Swollen hot hands at night and in the morning

3. Dry skin

4. Waking up at 4 or 5am and being awake

5. Restless legs

6. Constipation and diarrhoea

7. Heavy sleepy eyes/body Fatigue around 2pm onwards

8. No weight loss despite eating well

9. A mild period earlier than due date

10. Waking up really thirsty

It’s been a bit of an experience I can tell you! To get through it I had to remind myself of why I was doing this, and draw on all of my knowledge of the thyroxine detox process, the Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) and the Thyroid Healing Cleanse to understand my symptoms….basically I don’t want to give EBV any excuse to stay in my body and continue to cause chaos. I want to give my body a chance to function properly without EBV, or any medications interfering in that process by acting like a steroid and masking the real issue that’s preventing healthy thyroid function, EBV.

Understanding My Symptoms

I’m on Cleanse A this month (see above pic). Thyroxine and T3 have a half life of 9-10 days (how long it takes to leave your system completely). The inflammation is the virus reacting to/feeding off the fluctuations of hormones from the detox process.  My liver is releasing (and being cleansed of) almost 20 years of thyroxine. The hyper symptoms are from the excess meds coming out of the liver as it stores extra thyroxine (about 5%). The cleanse and celery help to release these meds, toxins and corpse cells from the liver, causing the initial increase in hormones a hyper systems, and then the drop in hormones as the meds leave my system. Not to mention the virus loves hormones so it has also been having a bit of a feeding frenzy. The inflammation is my immune system kicking in to full swing to fight it off.

To give my liver and thyroid extra support over the last two weeks in particular, I decided to include the thyroid healing soup every day and thyroid healing tea every day also (from cleanse c). I’m also alternating my breakfast smoothies between the Heavy Metal Detox Smoothie and the Thyroid Healing Smoothie each day. (There is no specified smoothie as part of Cleanse A.)

Improvement In My Health

Despite feeling the worst I have felt over the last two and a half weeks since starting on the cleanse, I have also had improvements (especially during this third week):

1. I am waking up regularly around the same time and feeling rested. (Mind you it has been between 3am and 5am but I feel rested!) If it’s early I do a meditation to continue resting before starting the day. Even while having the inflammatory headaches. (Highly recommend the 21 day meditation series from Oprah and Deepak Chopra, awesome!!)
2. I have had no issues getting out of bed to have a shower (other than two days while I had the inflammatory headaches where I stayed in my PJs and rested). I used to put off having a shower for as long as possible in the day, because of the energy it took, and sometimes I’d only shower every second day. In the past, after managing to get my daughter on the school bus, I’d have to go back to bed to rest or sleep.
3. I started walking and moving again by going on three 15-20 min walks last week and three so far this week, and actually WANTING to walk (see below pic).
4. I am enjoying cooking and planning meals again, which was always a huge energy zapper in the past.
5. I am interacting more socially, especially of an evening. I would previously have to rule out any social evening activity due to fatigue and brain fog at that time of day.
6. Stronger libido
7. My skin, especially on my face, looks healthier and clearer.
8. Adam and I no longer have a cleaner and I actually felt up to cleaning the bathroom the other week, for the first time in about 8 years. We also just purchased a steam mop so I could wash and steam our hard floors using only natural ingredients and water. I have done the hard floors twice now and get a kick out of doing it too!
9. I am feeling more naturally motivated as each day goes.

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These are the main positive changes I’ve noticed. I have not had any back inflammation, headache or stiffness in about a week. I am still experiencing hot sore hands early in the morning but that eases off before I get out of bed. Every second day this week I have still felt fatigue between 2pm and 5pm where i could curl up and go to sleep, but have managed to push though until bedtime. The other days have been pretty good and productive days. It used to be every day was fatigue.

For those that know me know that the above positive changes are major improvements in my overall health.

I still have every confidence that the longer I’m off the meds and doing the cleanse to starve the EBV and heal my body, the more settled my hormones will become. Over time my thyroid will return to its natural function with nothing holding it back. I believe this with every single fibre of my being and have done from about one month into starting the cleanse. I have no doubt it will take me 12-18 months to heal, settle and feel almost ‘normal’ again, with fluctuations along the way through natural hormones/periods, any unavoidable stress/life or inadvertent/accidental eating of the foods to avoid.

At some stage in the next three months I’ll have more bloods taken to compare to my baseline blood test results when I first started. The thyroid function tests will be especially interesting to see the results of.

Honestly, every single thing I’m doing each day with this cleanse (almost three months now), I feel is one step closer to feeling better and moving further away from all the health lows and crap. AND I’m saying this even after having the worst two weeks I’ve had since starting cleanse.

So far so good! Bring on more celery juice!!! And if you haven’t done so already, ‘do yourself a favour’ and buy the book! Thyroid Healing by Medical Medium, Anthony William, especially if you have any thyroid or chronic autoimmune issues, or you’ve had Glandular Fever (also known as Mono/EBV). Available at all good book stores and online. This is the link to the medical medium’s own website if you’d like more information. His blog posts are a wealth of info too.

Until next time…look after yourselves 🥰💚