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Thyroid Issues - What - Why - Recovery

But not for me! Does this mean anything to you? it didn't for me until recently I experienced thyroid storm. I took a journey through my sub-conscious, a deep dark place of denial. A place where I discovered...

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Why I Don't Want To Take My Thyroid Medication

What are some of the common reasons  for not taking my thyroid medication?  Some of these may be the reasons you don't take your thyroid medication either. I have hypothyroidism and I go through stages when...

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Hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism, most successful is natural healing

Illustration of thyroid follicles and follicle cells The thyroid gland is small endocrine gland located in the front of the wind pipe in the throat. It produces the thyroid hormones triiodothyronine (T3) and...

39 comments    health hypothyroidism iodine
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Reasons Why a Person With An underactive Thyroid May Also Suffer Symptoms of an Overactive Thyroid

The below article was created from an e-mail response I made to a thyroid patient who has symptoms of being both hypothyroid (under-active thyroid) and hyperthyroid (over-active thyroid). In my response...

2 comments    hypothyroidism hyperthyroidism
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Thyroid Disease, A Common Cause Of Anxiety And Depression

In the year 2002, when I began experiencing the onset of hypothyroidism from Hashimoto's Disease (autoimmune thyroiditis), some of the more concerning symptoms I had were the emotional ones. Once I was...

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Joint & Muscle Pain, A Common Thyroid Disease Symptom

Over the past few years, I have corresponded with many thyroid patients with Hashimoto's Disease, the autoimmune type hypothyroidism. Patients with the disease complain of many symptoms they experience with...

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Getting the Best Treatment for Hypothyroidism

  I received an e-mail from a lady being treated for hypothyroidism and she was complaining of not experiencing satisfactory symptom relief from the thyroid hormone therapy her Doctor is administering....

2 comments    health hypothyroidism synthroid
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PCOS and Hypothyroidism

Every year, many women are diagnosed with PCOS. For some of these women, suggested PCOS guidelines may miss the mark. If this is the case for you, you may have a condition called hypothyroidism. It is not...

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Antibodies that cause Thyroid Hormone Imbalance

I’m composing this article from an email I sent in reply to a newly diagnosed hypothyroid patient, who asked questions about the antibodies that cause thyroid diseases and how these result in either...

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How To Understand Thyroid Hormones and the Blood Tests That Monitor Them

The thyroid is mostly composed of or made up of an element called "iodine". This iodine is produced and made available in the thyroid gland through cells called hormones, each containing a certain number of...

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