In a 2-part post, actress Carla Abellana speaks about her condition.
Kapuso actress Carla Abellana has been battling hypothyroidism leaving her body and hormones in a mess and here’s how she overcame the struggles.
Hypothyroidism is a condition where the thyroid doesn’t produce enough thyroid hormone into your bloodstream. This is common and among its key symptoms is weight gain as this causes the metabolism to slow down.
This is also called an underactive thyroid which can make you feel tired, gain weight, and not able to tolerate cold temperatures. For actress Carla Abellana, her hypothyroidism has left her gaining weight. It was uncontrollable that she needed to switch doctors just to take a chance.
In her post, this condition has been the bane of her life for the past five years.
“My hormones were nowhere within normal range, cortisol level was extremely high for so long, i was practically perimenopausal at 37 years of age,” she said. The actress shared that she did everything to lose weight from strict dieting, working out, and fasting to almost starving but still, nothing has changed.
“5 years. 5 Doctors. Numerous tests over the years. Countless medication in all sorts of combinations. Hundreds of thousands of pesos. Nothing seemed to really work long term,” she wrote as she also expressed the struggle, frustration, embarrassment, worry, and desperation that came with it.
She changed doctors and took a chance and that was when things changed. It was still challenging that her rare case even broke the clean record of the doctor but there were results. It was a result that made her happy but it was also a result that took quite some time as her condition was pretty special and rare.
“My Hypothyroidism game was strong and my body was stubborn.”
Five months later, she started to lose weight making “all the trips to his clinic, strict dieting, strong willpower, discipline, concoction of medication, and perseverance” all worth it. In the past months, she lost 18 lbs or eight kilograms.
Just like many people, she could only wish losing weight works like magic but it does not. With her condition that made things more challenging, she realized that there might not be a cure but there’s a way.
Actress Bea Alonzo also has hypothyroidism which she disclosed last year.
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