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This month’s case study is 52 year old ‘Sarah’ who came to the Clinic with thyroid problems

I had been to my doctor for a routine check up because I had not been feeling too well. I was constantly tired, to the point of finding it hard to get out of bed in the morning and falling asleep on the sofa at night. I had noticed that my hair was becoming thinner and drier and my skin looked dry and pale. I just put this down to the menopause, but when my blood results came back it showed that I had borderline low thyroid function (hypothyroid). My doctor recommended that I should address this by taking a drug called thyroxine. I was reluctant to take this because I had always tried to live a natural life and only used medication as a last resort. He said that if I didn’t thyroxine my weight would continue to increase and my hair loss would be more prominent. I went away to think about what I wanted to do.

 

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This month’s case study is 31 year old ‘Suzi’ who came to the Clinic with sugar cravings:

I had always had a ‘sweet tooth’ as most people do. People were amazed at work how I could eat so many chocolate bars and sweets and not gain any weight – they were almost envious of me! It was true, I was eating at least two bars of chocolate plus pick and mix sweets during the day and I stayed the same weight!

 

This almost justified it for me that it was fine to carry on this way. However, it got to the point that I would be thinking about chocolate and sweets the entire day and it was actually interfering with my concentration at work. I started replacing my breakfast and lunch with chocolate and because I was snacking all day on sweets, by the time it came to dinner, I just had no appetite. At night the cravings would be even stronger and sometimes so bad that I would go out in the middle of the night to buy chocolate and sweets from the 24hr petrol station.

 

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This month’s case study is 40 year old ‘Anne’ who came to the Clinic with menstrual migraines

I had suffered with menstrual migraines most my adult life. The migraines would start 5 days before my period and they would affect my speech and vision and I would experience a numb sensation down my arm. These symptoms were debilitating and I would have to take a cocktail of strong painkillers to get me through. Over the years I was finding that I was becoming resistant to many of the migraine drugs so I would have to keep trying new ones. Another side effect I experienced was I would then get what felt like a ‘rebound’ migraine which was even worse than the first. It had got to the point that I was fed up with feeling like this every month and realising that all I was doing by taking the painkillers was masking the underlying cause. I read a magazine article on hormone imbalance and nutrition. I knew my migraines were affected my by hormones because they always came at the same time each month. In the past I had tried a few natural remedies and changed my diet, but at this stage

I decided to seek professional help because there was clearly something I had been overlooking.

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