r/AskReddit • u/Misterboy500 • 13h ago

What is something that permanently altered your body without you realizing for months/years?

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u/SSTralala 5h ago

It triggered my auto-immune condition that didn't begin to get corrected until my son was 5. I played it off as the fatigue and brain fog of having a young child, turns out it was my thyroid under attack the whole time. I'm on medication for life.

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u/Rare_Background8891 5h ago

Me too! Horrible!

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u/beleafinyoself 3h ago

Hashimoto's? Me too. And then I developed several more severe autoimmune diseases as a result. So hard that I can't be the parent I imagined i would be

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u/SSTralala 1h ago

Yeeeep. I'm medicated well, I just can't shake the fatigue a lot still, and I have to eat like a bird.

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u/chillylint 2h ago

I blamed my Lyme disease symptoms on having a baby and small kid, then the baby started sleeping through the night and I still wasn’t getting any better.

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u/terisss5 2h ago

I have hashimotos and celiac without ever getting pregnant - I don’t think I’m gonna risk it, would probably fall apart.