I Healed When I Listened to My Body
My first job after graduation was hectic. I had to monitor the web 24/7. I used to sleep monitoring and wake up to report that monitoring.
Yet I didn’t feel that bad, because I was practicing what I studied. Plus I was neither appreciated nor discouraged. The management didn’t seem that bad.
Anyhow, after a year I noticed a crazy amount of hair fall and bald patches. All that hair in my shower was bothering me. To top all that, I blamed myself for not caring enough. I blamed myself for not oiling my hair or I blamed my hair shampoo for not doing its job.
I have been a healthy person throughout my life. I’ve had my sick days too but they came rarely.
I started working again on some other job. It was stressful too. My boss was the most horrible person on planet Earth. I realised that I was constantly ignoring myself to get the work done. I was still not taking good care of my body like I should have, but my forgiving body was working just fine. My hair grew out and I was eating fine.
Then came the eating disorder days.
While working for that horrible boss, I came to a point where I stopped eating out of stress. I was so depressed that I didn’t know what was happening around me. I went to work, returned from work and went to sleep. During that period, I lost around 5 kgs.
I completed my contract tenure with the horrible boss company and decided to take a break. At the end of it all, I had severe pain in my joints. I was losing hair, my hair got so thin. I suddenly became this horrible, negative person that my family had to tolerate.
After a few weeks, I decided to work on my health without the help of a doctor.
At that point, I looked like a baboon because of all that facial hair and weight gain. My hormones were not working fine, and I was sleeping over the whole situation. I was roaming around the house, jobless. When I googled my symptoms, I found out that I had PCOS. I looked up certain natural remedies and tried them too. I took vitamin D for my joint pain along with Calcium tablets. This was the only self-medication that worked.
My joint pain was gone within one to two weeks. But the hair situation was not improving.
When no internet remedy worked, I decided to get everything properly checked. I went to a gynaecologist, who told me to check my thyroid levels.
To my surprise, I had hypothyroidism. It affected my hormones, cycles, weight, facial hair and even my mental health.
It's been more than 3 months that I’ve been following the doctor's prescriptions. I lost around 4 kgs. To top all that, I feel so optimistic all the time.
All because I decided to take the first step to wellness.
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