Fitness with thyroid malfunction

[hebe]

Indy, thank you. Please don't apologise for thinking that your posts sound "alarmist", they're not, and I appreciate your taking the time to tell me of your experience and I wish you could have had a better time of it. I have no illusions about a tidy "cure" to this in 18months time, the endo has been nothing if not realistic. Whatever this turns out to be, I lost my entire May to it, functioning barely enough to do the school run and falling asleep at 6 on many days, anything else just didn't happen.

I have been so grateful not to be back there, and intend to make the most of the time when I do feel well. When I saw the family doctor after my results came back I begged for a low dose as I knew I was already starting to feel better and I didn't really want any massive step changes in my health, in either direction. He did put me on 15mg, rather than 20mg which is the normal lowest dose (outside of maintenance) for an adult. I was grateful he listened as even that dose has turned out to be too high.

I meant to say, your suggestion of a heart rate monitor is a brilliant one that I will take up. I'm not entirely new to running - I did do fell running (trail running?) and some road running quite a few years back, but restarting has not been difficult due to the gentle pace of c25k. A HRM would provide an extra layer of reassurance however and a clear signal of when to stop. Thank you.