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‘GETTING BACK ON THE UPWARD CURVE’

t’s now six weeks since I was diagnosed with an under-active thyroid gland, which – as detailed last month – struck out of the blue and left me feeling like my energy levels had completely flatlined. It all happened so quickly; my FTP nosedived by about 50 watts in the space of a week. Since then, I’ve been plugging away trying to get back), we had to face the fact my numbers hadn’t come back to where I would have liked. Stephen reassured me that, prior to diagnosis, my FTP had been improving at a good, consistent rate, so it’s not that I don’t have the potential to bounce back – the lack of progress recently was definitely thyroid-related.

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