Tuesday, October 08, 2013
Monday, October 07, 2013
Baywatch actress Gena Lee Nolin tells how her diagnosis took ten years: I battled thyroid illness in a Baywatch bathing suit | Mail Online - Sharon Churcher - As the symptoms of Hashimoto’s disease are similar to other common ailments, it is often misdiagnosed. Having suffered for years without treatment, Gena Lee, who was 23 when she was cast as Baywatch lifeguard Neely Capshaw, is campaigning for routine thyroid testing. ‘I now believe my thyroid began to malfunction when I was 18,’ she says. ‘That was when the fatigue started, as well as the depression, some hair loss and mood swings. I would get a puffy face, puffy eyes.
Thyroid Hormone - The Most Overlooked Treatment For Fibromyalgia - HypoThyroidMom.com - A reader named Jules contacted me a few months ago with chronic pain from fibromyalgia so bad she was struggling to walk and to take care of her young son. Her symptoms included extreme swelling, fatigue, hair loss, pressure in her throat, and loss of the outer-third of her eyebrows. Anyone who has read my article 300+ Hypothyroidism Symptoms…Yes REALLY would consider hypothyroidism as a possible cause, and yet doctor after doctor insisted her thyroid was fine with a normal TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone). They insisted her symptoms especially her pain from fibromyalgia could not possibly be thyroid related. Turns out Jules had several large thyroid tumors pressing up against her throat.
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