liz749 wrote:actuallydear wrote:Gym assessment for Ellie, and chiropractor for Calvin.
Hmmm... I'm sensing a pattern.
*rolls eyes* seriously...go to a real doctor!!! Calvin should have been seeing a physical therapist months ago! His neck is clearly not 100% and we've only seen Jared do those stretches once. Hopefully they're keeping up with them off camera (if she'd made a baby update in the last four months maybe we'd freaking know). And who knows what kind of credentials this gym dietician has! She has PCOS and and hyperthyroidism...these obviously need to be managed by a doctor if they are affecting her health so drastically. Ellie doesn't need to just go to the gym and build some muscle... The rest of the family seems fine with going to the doctor...why are they so adamant about choosing "alternative" options? It's a good thing she doesn't want another kid for a while, your body needs at least 10% body fat to support a baby.
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I assumed she had hyperthyroidism as well judging by her weight loss, but someone corrected me and let me know she actually shared that she has hypothyroidism. In extreme cases, hypo can lead to uncontrollably weight gain, because the thyroid is under producing. (I have very slight hypothyroidism that I see a specialist for but no weight issues.) The only way hypo could cause dramatic weight loss is if you're overmedicated and swinging too much in the other direction, but in that instance you would be under the care of a doctor and they would test your levels on a regular basis to makes sure that doesn't happen. I know PCOS is just as common in slender women as it is in heavy women, but again, I don't believe that it causes dramatic weight loss per se.
If she's prone to these kinds of issues she could have a hormonal imbalance that's triggering this. But if that was the case, I'm not sure why she'd be so secretive about it. They vlogged their appointments with the fertility specialist, and talked about her health issues related to these appointments as they were happening. Now suddenly she's super embarrassed and private?
I think there's something psychological going on there. Maybe it started out as a physical health problem and now she refuses to seek help because she actually likes the way she looks and can't see that it's unhealthy. I think she's probably struggled with it for some time but it was under control until recently. Perhaps her desire to have children pushed her to get it under control for a period of time. Now she has her two babies and it's running rampant again. It probably affected her milk supply, so she had to switch to formula, but of course she has to be secretive about it. And of course they couldn't address it in the videos, because they need to control their image and project the perfect family. And of course she would fly off the handle if anyone mentioned it and become super defensive. It's all part of the illness. I think Missy knew exactly what she was doing when she posted that swing picture. This is going to be one awkward vacation. Everyone around Ellie must have their suspicions of what's going on but no one can say anything.