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My Own Story About Thyroid Disease, Adrenal Fatigue And Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

My ongoing battle with adrenal fatigue began to manifest even before I experienced the obvious onset of Hashimoto's/Hypothyroidism in early 2003. I began to notice months previous to diagnosis, that my...

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"Hashitoxicosis"; Sudden Severe Anxiety Symptoms Can be an Indication

A major subject for me to write about, is thyroid disease, especially the autoimmune type in which the immune system sends antibodies out to attack the thyroid gland. It has been my experience and that of...

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"Thyroid Antibodies" A Cause of Symptoms In Autoimmune Thyroid Disease Patients

I have corresponded with many fellow autoimmune hypothyroid patients over the past four years and have read the testimonies of hundreds of others, in articles and on forums and message boards. What I hear...

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My Diagnosis Of Thyroid Disease And Adrenal Fatigue/CFS

My story is typical of hypothyroid patients, who went for years wondering why their energy levels were zapped, their stamina was all but gone and their emotions had gone haywire. I made several trips to...

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Autoimmune Thyroid Disease and Mitral Valve Prolapse Syndrome

Previous to this article, I wrote several a few months ago on the "Mitral Valve Prolapse" subject. I did mention in those, the association between this common heart murmur and autoimmune thyroid disease...

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My Response to a Patient With Severe Anxiety Symptoms from Hypothyroidism

This week, I was e-mailed by a lady who has hypothyroidism and she is struggling with severe anxiety from the disease that is causing her low-functioning thyroid. She wrote, asking my opinion about thyroid...

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Patients Who Experience Increased Anxiety Symptoms with Thyroid Hormone Therapy

Below is my e-mail response to a lady who was started on thyroid hormone replacement medication to treat her hypothyroidism and it increased her already present anxiety symptoms. I had heard of this many...

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Temporary Thyroiditis a Trigger For Permanent Autoimmune Thyroiditis?

  Below, was my e-mail response to a lady who was writing me on behalf of her friend, who was suffering depression and other symptoms, following a period of "thyroiditis". Her Doctor had associated her...

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Treatment for Hashitoxicosis Vs Graves’ Disease

When Hashimoto's patients developing hypothyroidism, an under-active thyroid gland, go through Hashitoxicosis-temporary hyperthyroidism (overactive) they usually only register a slight difference in blood...

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Pregnancy and Thyroid Disorders: What You Need To Know

Thyroid disorders in pregnancy have the potential to be life threatening diseases when left untreated.

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