shared: “The best thing I did? I stopped trying to fix myself alone. I found a functional medicine nurse who listened for an hour. She found B12 deficiency and MTHFR. Six weeks of methylated B vitamins and I woke up without the ‘concrete blanket’ for the first time in 8 years.”
Lacey copied their suggestions into a notebook. She requested her lab records, found her ferritin was 18 ng/mL (“normal” range 15–150, but optimal for energy is over 50). She found a new doctor who ran a full thyroid panel (not just TSH). She ordered a cortisol test. lacey jayne forum
added: “I cried reading your post. I remember that hopelessness. For me, it was my cortisol rhythm. I was lowest in the morning, highest at midnight. A simple saliva test changed everything. You’re not doing everything wrong. You’re just missing one missing piece.” shared: “The best thing I did
Lacey had been a member of the "Lacey Jayne Wellness Circle" forum for nearly six months, but she’d only ever lurked. She read threads about gut health, hormone balancing, and natural energy boosts, but she never had the courage to post. Her own struggle—debilitating fatigue that no doctor could explain—felt too small and too big at the same time. She found B12 deficiency and MTHFR
, Lacey returned to the forum. She wrote a follow-up: “I don’t know who needs to hear this, but I’m the person from that desperate post. Today, I walked 2 miles before work. I cooked dinner. I laughed without forcing it. My ferritin is 65. My thyroid meds are dialed in. My cortisol is finally balanced. Thank you for not scrolling past me. You saved my life.” That thread became a pinned “Success Stories” post. New members still comment on it years later, saying, “I started here too. Thank you, Lacey.” If you're looking for a specific post from the actual Lacey Jayne forum, I’d recommend using the forum’s search bar with keywords like “success,” “healed,” or “breakthrough” — and sort by most likes or most replies. Often the most helpful stories are the ones where someone admits they were stuck first.
But the replies came slowly, gently.
wrote: “Lacey, I was you two years ago. The turning point wasn’t another elimination diet—it was my thyroid and low ferritin (iron storage). Doctors said my iron was ‘normal’ but it was on the very low end of normal. Have you seen your actual lab numbers?”