Thankyou for your kind reply frencyboos. Believe me, Ive trodden the path of ill health and feeling like life was not worth living, and today I'm more or less "back to normal" so I'm in a position to offer some general practical advice albeit based on my own personal experience, which ofcourse will not apply to everybody.

The reason why your health is failing is because your body is unable to clean and repair itself, and this is quite simply due to toxic overload, there is no big mystery about this situation! Its amazing that when you visit your general practictioner and explain to them general symptoms of tiredness and fatigue, Acne and Depression etc, you are just looked upon with a shrug of the shoulder... and if your a female you may even be told, well its just womens problems ! Your a women, you should be ill !! Then you walk away with Prozac or Antibiotics and you may feel better for a few months if your lucky. I dont question the positive intention of your GP, but sadly if they are not part of an active cure process, they are not really that helpful are they? Ultimately, a worker is only as good as the tools he has at his disposal, and this also applies to academics... Anything to do with broken bones they are fantastic, but problems like fatigue, hypo, Depression etc not so hot I'm afraid to say. This is where an honest informed herbal practioner can be invaluable.

Treat your body like a car... keep it clean and keep it serviced. If you dont take care of your car, you really ought to :-)

If you are serious about regaining your health I can honestly say that everything begins with your gut. If your intestinal lining has been breached and toxins/fungus etc are heading direct to your liver or bloodstream without being fully broken down, you will inevetibly feel awful within quite a short period of time, and nothing will improve until you identify the problem and correct it. The reason why your intestinal wall becomes leaky (leaky gut syndrome) is because of of the toxic sludge that accumulates, mucous, parasites and candida that are the result of a poor diet.

I suggest you follow the following protocol in this order.

1: Remove all mercury amalgrams in your mouth. Commence Candida purge (if you have a problem) If you remove mercury amalgrams you will need to take Chlorella & MSM (sulphur) (garlic also contains high levels of sulphur), these substances bind the mercury whilst its in your blood, and then it gets safely eliminated without being re-distributed to another part of your body. Its very important to make sure the mercury is binding in order to actually get the stuff out of your body. When your dentist removes mercury amalgrams, some of the mercury can get into your bloodstream, this is why you should have the tools to bind the mercury already in your body before and during mercury removal.

2: Colon Cleanse and parasite cleanse at the same time. Also commence pro-biotics at this time and continue indefinatley.

3: Kidney cleanse
4: Liver cleanse.
5: Another colon cleanse.

If you have mercury amalgrams and cannot afford the outlay of having them replaced, just do them when you can bit by bit and crack on with the other parts to the recovery process.

Before you start this procedure, you ought to change your diet to a healthy organic diet, and continue this diet indefinately. Once your body is healing itself you can snack here and there if u must, just for psychological benefits. However if you have Candida, no snacking on foods that Candida benefit from is allowed period. You must also attempt to get your blood near neutral ph (7.35) Acidic is less than 7, alkaline is above. MSM (sulphur) is excellent to help restore neutral ph. You can buy ph strips at most chemists for a few dollars/euros etc, all you do is place them on your tongue to establish an fairly accurate ph level of your body. Some foods are acidic, some are alkaline. Here is a general guide to these catergories.

http://www.rense.com/1.mpicons/acidalka.htm

If you dont like the sound of a physical colonic irrigation, you can try something called Oxypowder . Just make sure you stock up on the toilet roll and dont have any dinner dates planned when you start! You dont have to take the Oxypowder all the time after a cleanse, just take it for two days every 10 - 12 weeks or so, and that will prevent long-term build up of rubbish on your intestinal wall, aswell as keep money in your pocket.

Ok, the primary place to start is the colon and get the pro-biotics inside your gut, research some herbs that can help clear mucous off the intestinal wall and get that intestinal wall rebuilt. Once the wall is doing its job, your whole body will be in a far stronger position. Your liver will have its burden reduced, your blood will be cleaner, you will actually start benefiting from the nutritional value of your consumed food, instead of the critters that are swimming around within you eating up everything for themselves. Then after all this your immune system can relax.

Are you feeling stressed ? I believe there are two catergories of stress.

1: Chemical stress.
2: Social stress.

Chemical stress is just quite simply your bodies reaction to a toxic burden that it cannot handle, again, clean up your body = no chemical stress. The chemical stress leads to psychological stress, because you spend half the time wondering whats wrong !

If you have the money, try Reiki, acupuncture or acupressure also, try everything.
Distill your water and avoid fluoride and chlorine.

Blimey, Ive just wrote a book !

Hope you find this helpful.

Were you taking synthetic T4 before Armour ?

If so, how long ?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but did you say you had stopped taking Armour ? Did you replace this with synthetic T4 ? If you have Hashi, you will HAVE to take thyroxine in order to survive, or until such time your antibodies are stopped, which I believe is possible when following the herbal route in conjunction with the protocol I previously described. Are you actually taking any form of thyroxine replacement at this time ?

Did you only get a puffy face after starting Armour ? Or if you previously took synthetic T4 did you have any puffiness ?

I'm not 100% certain what is the precise cause of the puffy face, whether it is the replacement hormone, the antibodies, a combination of the two or some other byproduct of the whole process...

I have always took synthetic T4 since I was diagnosed Hypo with antibodies and my face went from a nice slim face to a big fat balloon.

Today my face has reduced right back down (not completely) but most of the way to a slim face that has some shape to it. I am STILL taking synthetic T4, which would lead me to believe it is not the T4 that causes the puffiness.

Although I have not had my antibodies tested for over a year, they had began to come down from a very high 1100 to 550, and I expect them to be even lower now due to my Chinese therapy and other lifestyle changes I already implemented as described earlier in the message.

So, it could be that the antibodies are the primary factor regarding the puffy face, however a poor diet and synthetic T4 or Armour will probably not help your face.

My face is nearly back to normal now, and all I have done is everything I suggested earlier in the thread. I also take Thyroid Throu Chinese herbal. I believe the Thyroid Throu certainly is very good at eliminating antibody production, and would certianly add weight to the antibodies being the main problem.

If you have a Candida problem, then you need to get that eliminated first and foremost, as I believe that there could well be a link between the antibodies and Candida in Hypo conditions. If you eliminate Candida then it is possible that your antibody production will be reduced, and this may help to get your face back to being slim. It is possible that it could be a number of other factors such as toxins that are escaping through your gut etc, however this will mostly be down to a Candida problem being the root of the leaky gut in the first place.

Come back with some answers, lets see if we can establish a pattern of any kind.