Hashimotos Update Health & Gray Hair

With change, do you find that when change happens, you feel anxious um? Do you feel exhausted by all the changes um that are happening in your life? I want you to know that you're not alone, and i want to talk to you about how i have been dealing with a lot of changes the past couple of months and how self-compassion is truly a big practice for me to be able to deal with that. When it comes to health and my gray hair, i'm not sure if you've ever had moments in your gray hair journey, where you're just done with worrying about your your hair um. I'M sure a lot of you feel like this. When you have a big major life change, sometimes the last thing on your mind is hair or like the little things right - and you know my page is mostly about you - know, gray, hair and so the past month my hair has been the last thing that has Been on my mind, i've been just trying to get through every day, as i'm sure you have as well um. If we know the truth of the quote, that says the only thing in this life that is constant is change. These past two years have shown us that for sure in my last live that i did with you guys, i told you that i had a new diagnosis of hashimoto's thyroiditis, which is a form of hypothyroidism, which is autoimmune, and i just wanted to update you guys On how i've been doing with that um how i've been coping, if there are any of you who are dealing with that who could share tips um, please feel free to do so in the comments. It'Ll definitely be helpful and then also to how what i've been doing to manage it. Um you, let me know if you guys agree with this. Whenever i wanted to find out how to do something, how to deal with something i will go to youtube. It'S like how do i perfect example today um this head wrap. I know how to do head wraps, but i haven't done them in a while. So i was like how do i do this one go to youtube type it up how to do this head, wrap, um! You also go on youtube to find experiences of other people who have been through things um, even when it comes to our hair right. Oh, i want to try this new hair product. How does it um, how do people who have hair similar to mine? How does it work so? I wanted to offer, in addition to the other things that i put on this channel for any who are going through health issues and how that affects their gray hair. I wanted to add this piece on here and i already told you guys that this is not just a hair channel um, and i want to thank all of you who are supportive and who, let me share anything. It is that i'd like to share that. I know will be helpful to you so, like i said i was diagnosed in march of this year with hashimoto's. Now i do have other chronic health conditions, fibromyalgia being one of them also psychogenic seizures, which are non-epileptic. I'Ve also talked about that on my channel as well and actually from those seizure videos. Those of you who have supported those videos helped me to see how important it is um to share your experience, because sometimes you can feel alone and feel like you're. The only one going through something and when you see someone else's experience and they're saying it, you feel less alone um, so dealing with chronic illness. Since i was 18 years old, um means that i'm not a stranger to change and changes. But these past couple of months have shown me that it's still hard it's still hard to deal with change, just when you think that you got it under control. Something else comes up that puts a wrench in your plans, and these are the things that i'm guilty of and let me know if i'm not alone with this, i get impatient with myself. I have unrealistic expectations of what i'm able to accomplish with my current present um limitations. I compare myself to what i used to be able to do whether it be a week or two ago or a month ago, and it just it robs us. It definitely robs me of my piece um and it makes it very frustrating. So i wanted to come on here and um. Tell you guys how i am it's an ongoing practice for me to work on self-compassion, one of the most compassionate things you can do for yourself when you're going through change. What do you think it is? Let me know in the comments or the chat. I thought acceptance was a big one, but sometimes you could accept something, but you could still be impatient. I'M realizing the most compassionate thing that you can do for yourself when you're going through a health challenge is patience, because why, whenever you're dealing with change, there's an adjustment period of of dealing with new circumstances, it's the same, even with your gray hair. You can have your gray hair coming out, you see them in the roots and you're like oh, no, i got ta grab my dye or i got ta get my hair appointment. I want to color my hair, i'm not ready to deal with my gray hair. Yet, okay, fine, then you get to this point where you're like okay, i'm getting a bit tired. I do want to transition to going gray. But how do i do this and you decide you want to do it, but then you're like? Why is it taking so long? Maybe you decide not to chop your hair off, but you decide to let it grow out. So patience is a factor in in many many different things so um like i said i deal with a lot of chronic health conditions, so i'm not a stranger to fatigue but thyroid fatigue. Is it's different for me personally, so i'm 40 years old and the past six months, i noticed a tiredness that reminded me of when i was pregnant with my son, where, like i can't get out of the bed um and the times that i was able to Do something i needed a whole lot more recovery time than usual, like i remember going for a walk with my husband and my son and then having to lay down for the rest of the day, because i was just like what happened like i felt wiped. It was hard for me to even stand up. I felt weak, so it's like this lethargic feeling. It'S not just like um. You know you're normal tired, and so i want to encourage you guys to to i mean we know we're supposed to go and get our annual checkups at the doctor. But of course, since everything that was going on the past two years, if you haven't yet please go and make sure that those are up to date, because you might be surprised at the results, so i've been getting blood work for a long time after i had My son, there were some thyroid issues that i was aware of, but nothing that showed up on my regular blood work going to the doctor. But then this march, when i went in it, showed not only high thyroid levels or low thyroid levels. I'M still learning that i don't know if it's high levels which show a low thyroid, or vice versa, but um i showed antibodies, which um when there are thyroid antibodies present in your blood work that lets. You know that this is an autoimmune uh response going on. In your body, so there's nothing structurally wrong with my thyroid. I did get an ultrasound to make sure there was no um issues with uh, you know thyroid cancer or any um growths cancerous growths or anything on there. Um and ultrasound was easy enough to do. However, the autoimmune part of the hashimoto's means that it's your immune system that is attacking the thyroid gland so mentioned all that to you guys in the other video. So for five weeks i was like. Let me take these supplements. I worked along with someone who helps me with my health in a natural way, and i said let me give this a shot before i went to taking um this synthetic thyroid hormone. So i i thought you know, maybe it might be making a difference, but then i started to feel even more tired, um. I started to feel more symptoms and it's important for you to listen to your body. Just like i tell you, even with your gray hair, to listen to your hair if you're trying a product and your hair is telling you it doesn't like it um it, it also is the same when you're dealing with supplements or medication, so i gave it a Try for five weeks with the supplements i was on and something told me to go and get a repeat blood work, and my doctor did suggest that to me um i got the repeat blood work and my thyroid levels were even worse, so um. Of course, i again, this was a change right. I thought that i could control this health situation in the way that i wanted to, which is to try and stay away from medication, and i'm not against anyone who um take. You know takes medication, but i like that to be my last resort, but at the same time the one thing about doing things naturally is about timing. If you get it at a good point, then um you're able to you're able to um maintain it, but when it's at already like at really low levels, my body was letting me know. Look i appreciate all that natural stuff. You just did there, but we're going to need a little something stronger. So this went past wednesday made two weeks since i have been on levox. Let me make sure i get this right um and let me give a disclaimer. I am not a doctor, i'm not giving professional medical advice to you guys, i'm just sharing my experience, because when i was trying to decide what i was going to do, i sure enough even went on youtube to look at other women who were experiencing this. So i'm on levoxa love level, i'm on 50 micrograms or mcg. I take it once in the morning and uh. I was very nervous because i have taken medication before and what are we always nervous about the side effects but um? Another practice, that's amazing. Besides, patience is surrender, i had to let go of the fact that i wanted to control my health a certain way and look at the signs, which was my blood work, which showed that my thyroid was in danger, and i knew this was something because the moment I got the blood work in the email guys, i think, maybe 10 minutes later. My doctor was calling me, and the first thing she said to me, was how are you and i was like she's like from this blood work like i know, you're not doing well, and so that was very um validating because uh, you know 40 is not old, But it's also not young young um and that's another thing was change. You know you reach another decade and you can't compare your 40s to your 30s there's some good things about uh each decade. You know that it is that we go through. Please. Let me know in the comments um any of you you did in the other video which um i apologize. I was not able to get to all the comments, but i thank you so much for everyone who showed support in that video. Let me know that you also have hashimoto's and tips, and things like that is so helpful. So please do that also in this video um. So i wanted to let you know how it's been so far on this medication, um, similar to the gray hair journey, there's something that we love to see about transformation we like to see people's journeys um we like to see it from the beginning. When i started my youtube channel, i wasn't at the very start of my gray hair journey, but i took enough documentation to be able to share that and one of the videos that did the best on my channel was the one showing my process or pictures of When i first went gray to you know where it is and by the way this month may makes five years, it's been five years since i've um stopped dying. My hair and um your thyroid is a can affect your gray hair. A lot - and let me know in the comments if there are those of you who also agree with this i've done other videos to let you guys know that one of the biggest complaints we have with our gray hair is it being dry right, um, and i Always talk about besides looking at products first to try and use with your gray hair check your health check um to see if uh there are medications that you're taking that the side effect, the side effect of the medication is affecting your hair as well. Now one thing i will tell you about when you're experiencing um a new change and you're looking to others for their experience. This is something else i had to surrender and let go of the caveat with seeing other people's experiences is being afraid you know. Maybe i would look at someone's video and they would talk about how being on this medication made them lose hi tara. Thank you so much for letting me know. I'M not alone. Are you dealing with hypo or hyperthyroidism um, some people that i saw their experiences. They said that hypo okay, they told me when they took the meds, it caused them to get hair loss and i automatically was like. Oh no am i gon na. Take this. I don't want to lose my hair and then i was like you know what um i want to honor the fact that my experience can be unique. It'S similar to the gray hair journey. You can look at someone and how their experience with went with gray hair, and it doesn't necessarily mean that will be how will be for you. So we have to learn to honor what our unique experience will be, and i told myself i could give it a shot, we'll see what happens. It'S still only two weeks, but so far so good um, and this also proved to me when it comes to change. One of the hardest things about change is the uncertainty, even with your gray hair journey, you're nervous about letting your hair go gray, because you don't know what it's going to look like. You don't know how people are going to react. Um and another thing. I think we notice - or we focus so much on when it comes to change, is what we're gon na lose um and i get it because that's that's what i was thinking, but after taking this medication um, it really taught me what i gained was some insight. I gained what works for me and so far i mean i'm not a hundred percent, but i saw a a marked difference when i started taking the level thyroxine than when i was doing the natural supplementation and what i did do i i don't want to necessarily Say what it was that i took before because um you know, like i said, consult your doctor. This is not medical advice. This is what i was thinking and doing um, but i think one of the things that i took had natural desiccated thyroid in it. Let me know also, if there are any of you who have tried that um that desiccated, i looked it up because i was like what does that mean and it's basically just dried um and it's usually from a pig or uh. I don't know if it's from cows but the the ones that i've seen said, pig um so for some people that works and my other fear with taking medication is being on it forever. But i told myself: look: let's just focus on right now, because your blood work is saying your thyroid is telling you it needs some help, and this is another hard thing to do. When you're dealing with change and you're focusing on loss um, do you guys know the quote? That says: don't cry because it's over smile because it happened. So i i've been trying to be more grateful to my body, because when you have chronic health conditions, you can resent your body because it's like i'm tired all the time, i'm tired of being tired, um, my body aches. I just i want to be able to do things like other people, but i instead um was thankful to my thyroid, for letting me know that it needed help, because the thyroid is a really big thing. If you hear something in the background that is my fan, you guys have seen my hand dandy fan from other videos um. I got this on amazon. It is my bestie okay, even before i found out about my thyroid uh condition. I'Ve always been like um really like sweat a lot. I told you guys that, even when it came to my gray hair, i would get my hair color. Don'T let it be a rinse and the front that was where my grade came in first the hairline. It would sweat out - and there goes my gray again so i will say um - i'm really happy that i'm dealing with some of the symptoms of gray uh of hypothyroidism. But one thing is that is not a problem for me is worrying about my hair, dye and and stuff like that. I could just let my hair be uh the way that it is so. I know i probably went all over the place um with this video but, like i said it's been two weeks since i have been on the low level thyroxine. I take it early in the morning you're supposed to take it on an empty stomach. You'Re supposed to take it an hour before you eat your food. When you take this thyroid replacement or thyroid hormone, i think that's, basically what it is thyroid hormone. You have to be very careful about absorption, so um, that's why you have to eat it on drink. It on an empty stomach, drink it with a full glass of water and um. You also have to be wary of any minerals like calcium or iron, or things like that that you take very close to it, because it can affect the absorption um. So in four weeks, so in two more weeks, i'm gon na be going to my doctor to get blood work again to. Let me know if this uh dosage is good for me um so far it is um. So i'm really happy about that. Kimberly long. History of extreme dieting causes cause thyroid issues, hair loss, um. You said something about um. It went away real quick. Let me see if i could go back to it, not sure how to do that on here. Sorry about that, but thank you kimberly for sharing your experience. That is also my goal. I said you know what it's time to bring in the strong stuff to get myself back to homeostasis and then i may um uh decide to try some supplements to maintain it. Um, but as of right now, this is what i'm on, like i said in two more weeks, i'll be getting blood work to see. If my levels have. You know responded to this, and i've also made some changes in my diet when you're dealing with the hypothyroidism. That is an autoimmune condition. That means that our immune system is hyped up. It'S it's highly sensitive um, so there could be other things that could be exciting. Our immune system and diet is one of them, so i am not here to promote any one diet, i'm not a keto person or, but i am moving toward a lower carb uh type of diet in my life, especially because i also have blood sugar issues um And something that i didn't realize your thyroid can also affect your cholesterol levels, um, and so i'm looking to see how my cholesterol is going to be once once i've been on this medication for a while um. Let me know if anybody else is on level thyroxine or if they're, on the natural, desiccated, um or kimberly. I think you said um that you've been on medication before but now you're doing like a healthy diet, um and supplements um. I'D love to know more about that: okay, tara, you're on 75 milligrams. How long did it take? Did you start on 75, tara or um? Have you uh? Has it come to that and another thing about an autoimmune condition? Is that it's with you, you know for a while tara. You said: oh no, you didn't start on 75.. I don't think they usually do right what they start you on um, and i also think that this is an important conversation, because this happens. Hypothyroidism is a very common um condition and a lot of you uh, beautiful butterflies, who i talk to, who are experiencing um, thinning or even hair loss. A lot of these things could be um connected to our health and not just hypothyroidism, but also getting older. Then then, don't don't. Let us even talk about the hormone side of things because thyroid does affect your hormones as well. Um, so get your get. Your hormone levels checked your estrogen, your progesterone. Those things can affect your hair, too tara. You said it took a while. You start on 50, then 88, okay, yeah a lot of people who i've read. Their experiences have said that um, you know, there's some tinkering and then i'm even putting in my mind, like i told you guys about change, how um, maybe if you're going through something stressful in your life or uh or something happens, that might mean a different um Dosaging so um, it's important when we're dealing with change to be patient with ourselves allow space for um even a little bit of grief, because i felt like okay, i have a lot of other chronic health conditions. Now i can add one more on there and um. I would say: fatigue zacchaea you've been taking it for five years, you're on 25. You start on 25. Thank you so much for sharing your experience and your friend your you found your first gray hair just now, you're saying um. This just is so nice to be able to have this community. I'M obviously not excited that you guys have hypothyroidism, but just being able to connect with others who experience this as well is is really helpful. Oh that's great. My younger sister is 30 years old and she the way she's experiencing her gray hairs, is totally different than i did at 30 years old um, they're coming in salt and pepper. It doesn't seem like it's coming on her hairline, yet um and they're, just like first, it started off as one that was like the lone ranger and then now they're like popping up um a bit more and more. So that's another interesting thing: i'm gon na become i'm gon na, be putting out a video soon to show you guys what my hair journey has been like for the past five years. Guys when i first went gray, i had a whole lot more black hair and now my hair is like at least 80 percent gray, especially in the front, and i want to let you know too, that your gray hair also, i mean it's a common thing. People think oh you're stressed that's why you have gray hair that can be a factor. It'S not necessarily a cause, but if you're dealing with a health condition um that also can cause the gray hair to come up. Because i think i told you guys in the last video, if you find that you have like black roots. But then, like your hair. Um comes in gray and then goes back to black kind of like this. I don't know patchiness that can show a period of time where your health, you might have had a health crisis and then now that you're back to homeostasis your hair is coming in black. Again, isn't that um quite interesting um, so again, your hair can tell you a lot about your health as well as your hair. Your health can affect your hair as well. So if you just got this diagnosis of thyroid um hypothyroidism, whether hyper or hypo, or maybe it's something else - that you're dealing with, have realistic expectations about how your hair is going to be. I know another uh person that i'm close to who was just telling me how they noticed when they were younger. Their hair was so much fuller and now they're noticing the density of their hair a whole lot. Um thinner, you know not what they would like and besides, like i said patience, this brings me back to surrender letting go of trying to change something that we can't trying to change things that we can't change is truly a robber of peace. Let me know if you agree with that guys. Felida, you also just found a gray hair is lacking. Copper in the body. Thank you for sharing that um. That could be true, um, even with uh. What i've learned about the thyroid, if you're, if you have some um nutritional deficiencies, that also can affect your thyroid, so guys, if you want to know how to take care of your gray hair, it's not just looking at products. You know the gel, the shampoo. It'S also your health, your internal health um, i'm trying to make my health more of a priority, the things that i ingest um, the exercise that i get uh the sleep that i get um and then also making room for if i am taking this medication i'll I'Ll keep you guys updated if i see any hair loss or any thinning or changes in my hair, i will say, with my gray hair, i have found that my gray hair in general is even finer. Even when i didn't have any gray hair. I have fine natural hair, but i found that when i got older and the more gray hair that i got, though definitely the finer my hair is um. It'S been a long time since i washed my hair and so i'd like to let you know too i'm going to be doing a video showing you just different styles that i've done, because i think another thing like i said i get frustrated about is i don't Feel like doing my hair, my hair is not even long. There are some of you out here who have gray hair and it's longer um, i'm just too tired. I'M too tired, like doing my gray hair, is like exercise that would be like my exercise for the day i am going to wash it today, though, i'm going to be using the curlsmith protein, the cross smith bond salve first then, i'm going to i haven't tried Beer, in a long time with my gray hair that actually helps to give it like some shine and a little bit of fullness. It'S not going to make my hair look thick, like my sister's hair, but let me know if you guys have ever used beer on your gray hair. It'S similar to the effect that apple cider, vinegar can have on the gray hair to brighten it um. Not. Everybody has that uh experience, but that's my experience with beer and you would think that would be interesting because beer has kind of like a brownish tint right. So you would think um. I always tell you guys to at least try and use things that are white or clear for your gray, hair um, but that's something else that i'm trying to do i'm trying to keep. I know you guys talk about this as well or would desire this. Oh my light just uh came out but um when you're going through change, keep your uh keep your routine as simple as possible um. So if you don't have time to deep condition, your hair then do a rinse out conditioner and one that i love um is from unicorn there's. I think, like a five minute, you could i put that in my hair i'll wash my hair with my pantene purple. Shampoo use the unicorn, uh, quick, conditioner and then um use the unicorn four in one styler and just let my hair air dry so try and figure out the simplest way that you could take care of your hair, because, right now my hair is a mess. It'S knotted, my hair gets knotted very easily and i haven't been taking care of it. I'M being really honest with you guys, also when it came to my diet, i did really good the first five weeks and then um this past week. I did have some donuts and you know i'm also being realistic, because you know there's going to be time where life happens. You hang out with your friends and things like that, but um. I also know that in the beginning, when you want to make the most impact in your health, it's important to be consistent, because i do want to work on losing weight. How have you guys been dealing with that with hypothyroidism? Because i that's another struggle um? If you find that you're putting on a lot of weight, i'm waiting to see if i mean i know this - is not a diet pill but um, i'm looking to see if there's any improvement in my weight as well um yesterday i did get out. That was a win of mine um and i did a 15 minute walk and that was that was good, but you know what i started to put into my day. Is i knew after that walk? I would be done and i was so then i just allowed space for resting after that. So if you are tired, if you are going through things, um, please allow space for where you're at right now um. I have an amazing mindset. Coach named nikita williams - and i just before i came on, live with you. I did this session with her, where you know the things we tell ourselves is so important if you're looking in the mirror and you're looking at your gray, hair and calling yourself old or ugly you're going to internalize that you know. But if you look at yourself and say my beauty is not defined by the color of my hair, or i am still beautiful, even though i have gray hair for those of you who are just finding your gray hairs that you said today. I want to impress upon you the importance of what you say to yourself when you're going through change or you're going through challenges, it's important to support yourself, and i let me know if you guys agree as women. We are really hard on ourselves. You know um the things we say to ourselves can help us or hurt us. It can build us up or tear us down so make sure that you allow space for what it is that you're going through, and so i want to give you some encouraging words right now. If no one has told you yet um, if you are going through a hard time, if you are going through change, that is really challenging for you and yet you're still here, because you're watching me right now. I want to tell you that i see you um. I want to tell you that i'm proud of you, if no one has told you that - and i know that you're doing the best that you can with what you have, and that is enough. It'S really important to say things like that to yourself now, i'm so good at telling other people these things telling you guys these things um, but i need to work on doing that for myself more because i get really hard on myself being a mom is also Something that is a constant change, and you other moms out here know this as well. Just when you get through one stage, another stage comes, and i would say the most challenging things that i've been through throughout many different. Things is how my health affects different areas of my life and even when it comes to being a mom having chronic illness. Dealing with a smash special needs child i'm continually getting practice in being patient and um letting go of what you can't control um. I realize that i don't it doesn't have to be the way that i expect it to be that it can actually be better than i fear. I know you guys experience this as well. Fear, i think to be fearful is a human thing. It'S nothing to beat yourself up about, but i think this experience with my health has also showed me that a lot of things that i feared, i'm still here, a lot of things that i thought were going to be the worst were not as bad as i Thought um perfect example, like i said, with the medication now another thing that i am noticing. I don't know if you guys, who also take the thyroid medicine um experience this um, another friend of mine, was telling me she's going through this adult acne. Now it's not really bad! I i have i admit besides having chickenpox really bad, when i was uh in middle school um, i haven't really had many skin issues, but recently i've been getting these like pimples that hurt and um. This has been here for like two weeks at least, and then i found another one over here and we talked about right when you get gray hair and when you reach a certain age, you start getting the hair underneath the chin, which can feel very self-conscious. But i try to keep up with that. You know to groom myself so continue to do the things that make you uh feel good and take care of yourself, but i'm not sure i i'm thankful for my um, my phone camera, which let me know when i started to experience these and it was before. I took this medicine, so i cannot blame it on the medicine but um. You know it's just something that another friend of mine was telling me that she's just start. She never had acne when she was a teenager but she's starting to get it now as she's an adult and um. So if there are those of you who are dealing with that as well, i can see why, for some women who see their gray hair, you know they get this feeling of like oh, i'm, not gon na be attractive, but i'm so happy that i learned the Lesson that i can still be beautiful, you can still be beautiful, even if you have gray hair um, you are still worthy, even if you have health limitations um. You continue to learn these lessons through change through change. Another quote that i love is about flowers which who doesn't love flowers and how, in order for them to grow, they have to go through dirt. First, so in time in life, there may be a lot of dirt that you have to go through, but you can still bloom where you're planted and the way to do that is definitely by patients letting go of the things you can't control. Accepting you know things as they are not as they want them to be. Your gray hair may be drier than your hair. You like is, i see which quote. Did you like? Let me know um uh. What was i just saying, um yeah acceptance with your gray hair. You know um yeah, your hair, when it wasn't gray, might have behaved very well when you styled it, you didn't have any issues with products and now it's different yeah. It is and it's a struggle, but you can get through it. You know um. So this is, i just want to come on here and just talk to you guys and just tell you what was going on with me and um and, most importantly, definitely share. Those quotes with you and the reminder of not defining yourself by your health. That has been hard. That has been an ongoing lesson in practice for me, um, because i've dealt with chronic illness for so long. I'Ve just always been thinking about what i can't do or what i've lost from it or um. You know comparing myself to others: okay, okay, i like that one too um, because it's a nice visual and it's true right, and i also want you to know that just because, because sometimes you could feel a little resentful of that of like oh, i have to Be strong, i have, if you have days i've, i've had them. This is my first time since being on youtube being away this long from you guys, but i was like i need to focus on my health. I can't think right now of of other things, and i um i'll come on here when i can and so for all of you who watch this and who take the time to comment. I want to tell you how much i appreciate i appreciate your support and for allowing me a space on the internet to share my experience, um to feel support, supported and validated, and i hope that you feel the same. Please leave me a comment. If this video was helpful to you, please send it and share it to someone who may be going through the same thing um. Another thing that is awesome about the youtube and the internet is uh. A lot of people who, i know have found me through youtube. Um, maybe they may have known of others who were telling their gray hair journey. Thank you sheila. I appreciate you. Your support always um, but you know being able to see someone of a woman of color and in my age group and just talking about because a lot of the videos that i saw in hashimoto's and it's not shade but um you know were for they didn't. Look like me, um, and they also didn't have gray hair. So i also wanted to like connect that piece to how my thyroid is affecting my gray hair. I haven't had hair loss, but i can say that my hair has thinned um a lot. I take that back. I think in one of my videos i showed you guys in the front here there was like a little spotchy part that i was like getting nervous. It looked like i had a little ball patch um. I am going to be trying to see if i could find myself a dermatologist um just to check my scalp um and make sure everything is okay, any signs of alopecia or anything like that um. You know there's so many keys to our hair health and the scalp is one of them and the health. Your health is also so make sure that, when you're taking care of your hair you're, looking for things about your hair, um you're, not just looking at product use which products to use and which styles make sure that you're looking also to take care of your health And and also mindset mindset is such a big thing um. When we have our mind right about things, it can change our experience. It can help it to be more tolerable, um. You know in dealing with it and also, let me know, uh any questions you guys have on gray hair. You are sheila. Thank you so much for sharing that wow. How did you find out um? Oh man, there are some other women that i know as well who are thyroid cancer survivors and also those who didn't have cancer but had their thyroids removed. So they definitely will be on thyroid hormone replacement. Um. You know for life uh, but they're still here um, and so i'm so glad you're still here, sheila and uh. It goes to show sheila as long as i've known you through the internet or youtube um. You have had a positive outlook on things, and just - and this is another thing about the gray hair right - a lot of people will focus on the negative things, a yearly physical exam. Thank you sheila, which shows why it's important for us to go um every single year to uh be ahead of it to be ahead of it. If we can be um and and even if your doctor make sure you ask them to get a thyroid panel on your um thyroid, so that they could go in depth on it, especially if you're in your 40s or especially, if you just had a child, because That'S something else that i learned that can affect um your thyroid, so um. What was i just saying before that something about the thyroid people having it removed, forgot, y'all, forgot and another thing that i want you got. I want to put out there if you are also a woman and you're dealing with depression. I think that's another factor that was surprising to me that i did not connect to my thyroid, especially if you have low thyroid um. It can affect your mental health as well. It has definitely affected mine and actually, before i even found out about my thyroid, the one of the symptoms i was feeling is. I was like: why do i have feel empathetic? Why do i not like i just mentally? Didn'T feel well um and i went on antidepressant because i was just like. I need some help. This is affecting my my daily life and i'm still on that um for a little while to be able to help me um. But it's important to know because when you go to your regular doctor and you tell them that you're depressed, he didn't ask me well how's your blood work, you know and things like that, so make sure you have an updated uh. You know blood work so that you know that everything else is okay on the background, because those things can affect your mental health as well um, you know even anxiety, and things like that can be connected um to your thyroid, your hormone levels and things like that. So i hope this was of um benefit to you all um, i'm going to be sharing a very short video that i uh recorded a long time ago, um just to one of the areas that i feel that i'm really good at is sharing like a way To make you feel good about yourself um, so i want to do that more for those of you who are chronic warriors um, and also those of you who are non-epileptic seizure, who experience that also go get your thyroid checked, because that is something else that i'm Starting to see