The beginning.

I was diagnosed as hypothyroid, thankfully, in November 2007. However, I had it long before then.

2005 was supposed to be a GREAT year! I was getting married, had just moved and was working REALLY hard to get things ready for the wedding...

Weddings are always stressful....but I had LOADS of fun planning!

I started birth control in early July 2005, a few weeks before we were to get married....

I wasn't sure I wanted a baby right away, and ALOT of people were trying to use scare tactics to try and prevent us from "damaging our marriage early on".

I was fine on my first set of BC pills until a few month later...in August 05, I ended up catching a cold and felt funny....

I went to a DR and he prescribed me new BC pills...again saying we were too young to have kids, etc.

Started on those, and a few days later I had a nasty reaction to them and stopped taking them.

I started bleeding, even though it was only a week after my TOM.

It really freaked me out. I was told by the same DR I was fine and it would go away and I shouldn't worry.....

Well....worry happened.

Within 6 months I had put on several pounds.....

It started slowly...gaining a few here or there....

Before marriage I was anywhere between 97 and 110 lbs. When I started putting on the weight I progressively became 113, then 116, finally 120, 125.......

I ended up weighing AT LEAST 140 if not more...mind you I am ONLY 5 ft......

I went from a size 8 pant to a 13/14....it was utterly embarrassing!!!!

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More to come: Dr's visits to try and figure things out and pregnancy possibilities