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Hey, Hey With This Thyroid

Dear Thyroid — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 16:00:04 +0000

Do you see more cases of thyroid cancer when a person has been diagnosed with hyper or hypothyroidsm? And maybe you have and I haven’t seen any, but maybe alerting patients about the effects of overdosing…. I have done that a lot of times because I forget to take my pills for a couple of [...]

Hypo-1800s-thyroidism

Dear Thyroid — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 17:00:40 +0000

It was in the early 1990s when I noticed that I had a lump in my throat. I was still in Australia and only had a few weeks before I flew home, via Singapore and The Tioman Islands. I resolved that I would see my GP when I returned home. Once back home I made [...]

Too Tired to Jump Your Bones

Sara Gottfried, MD — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 21:00:31 +0000

Forty-three percent of women report low libido, but in my practice, the numbers are much higher. While libido is the most complex symptom that I work with by far, it often has biological determinants along with the more nuanced emotional pieces of couple connectivity, negotiation of sexual boundaries and divergent need/desire. In fact, 70% of [...]

A Break-up Letter

Dear Thyroid — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 15:47:46 +0000

Dear Thyroid, We need to talk. This isn’t going to be easy for you but I’m way past giving a shit about making things easy for you. To put it bluntly, we’re breaking up. I know we were childhood sweethearts and that we’ve been thru a lifetime of ups and downs together. You act like [...]

Immune System, Just Who Do You Think You Are?

Dear Thyroid — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:00:25 +0000

Dear Immune System, Seriously? Hashimoto’s? Really? Look, I know I didn’t pay a lot of attention in anatomy or biology, but this should be innate for you! Let me introduce you to someone. Thyroid . . . Immune System. Immune System . . . Thyroid. Now listen up immune system, LEAVE THYROID ALONE! It’s just [...]

Benjamin Franklin’s Black Eye

Dear Thyroid — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:01:51 +0000

Dear Thyroid: It’s been awhile since we’ve connected little thyroid. Don’t think I’ve forgotten you. I think of you every day, at least once. What do you mean I should have at least sent a postcard? “Having a great time; wish you were here” crap? Maybe I would have, had I been having a great [...]

Sleeping Butterfly

Dear Thyroid — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 14:27:12 +0000

(Written by Susan Frybort, Hypothyroid Patient) Dear Thyroid, I have been coexisting with hypothyroidism for fifteen years since the age of 29, though had demonstrated obvious symptoms throughout my twenties. The poem I wrote reflects the physical and emotional conflict I experienced in the early years of my thyroid disease. I endured a laundry list of medical [...]

What My Thyroid Has Taught Me

Dear Thyroid — Wed, 12 May 2010 06:30:51 +0000

(Written by Dee, Hypothyroidism, Hashimoto’s Patient) I thought I learned everything from my cat, but actually I learned everything from my thyroid. Life is hard, then you nap. There were days when I could sleep 12 hours overnight and still take a nap for two hours in the afternoon — not knowing why. It was [...]

Hashimoto’s, Now Hear This: I Am Not Yours For The Taking. You Do Not Own Me. I Make The Rules. Not You!

Dear Thyroid — Tue, 11 May 2010 06:30:40 +0000

(Written by Johna, Hashimoto’s Patient with Endometriosis) Dear Thyroid, “Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or we grow weak, and at last some crisis shows what we have become.” When I first called this quote [...]

Journey of a Thousand Miles — All Uphill

Dear Thyroid — Thu, 06 May 2010 13:30:08 +0000

Hello Thyroid, I don’t know where to begin, because my beginning happened during the worst week of my life. I had just lost my mother in July 1999. I was on my way home after closing up her house, when I got a phone call from my physician’s nurse, who said “your thyroid level is [...]