Got the diagnosis out of the blue yesterday - doc spent ages talking me through it (I love my doctor, he's utterly lovely). I'd gone in a couple of weeks previously re ongoing period problems, and a couple of tests later I've got a completely unexpected diagnosis for hypothyroid. Apparently my TSH was 3 times higher than it should be, and antibodies 10 times higher.
So, all the stuff I'd been putting down to age, stress and hypermobility could be sorted with one magic pill a day? And I could be losing some weight again?
Who wants to tell me the positives please?! Other than free prescriptions for life 
. I think it's good news. I mean, it's not often you go to the doctor's for one thing and get given a medical excuse for being fat and lazy... But at the same time it's weird having something I'm going to have to take stuff for for the rest of my life.
And that's another thing. I'm going to have to add ram-raiding a chemist for supplies of levo-wotsit to my zombie plan aren't I... 