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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...

4 comments    health fibromyalgia cfs and fms
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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...

13 comments    health anti-inflammatory
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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...

4 comments    health immune system autoimmune
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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...

0 comments    health anxiety symptoms
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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...

10 comments    health hypothyroidism
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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...

2 comments    health fatigue medical research
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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...

7 comments    health panic attacks
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Viral and Hereditary Causes of Thyroid Disease

There is medical research that has been published in regard to the Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) and its role in causing autoimmune thyroiditis and other autoimmune and neurological diseases. It is also highly...

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Does Oprah Winfrey Have Hashimoto's Thyroiditis?

  Until Oprah herself states that Hashimoto's is the cause of her hypothyroidism, we're actually guessing. My desire to see her specify after confirmed by her doctor, comes from the fact that "thyroid...

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Autoimmune Hypothyroidism; Both Hormones and Thyroid Autoimmunity Contribute to Symptoms

In this article, I will be commenting on a recently published medical research article about autoimmune thyroid disease. I would first like to make comments in regard to symptoms some patients with autoimmune...

0 comments    health thyroid hypothyroidism
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