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oshaughnessy
  • By oshaughnessy · New reply 6:05 pm
  • Discussion in Living with a thyroid disease · 11 replies
  • I was at my yearly annual appointment and my primary told me my Thyroid was enlarged. She scheduled me for an Ultra Sound and they found a nodule inside the Thyroid with calcification. She told me not ...

Five million

Brian
  • By Brian · New reply 4:06 pm
  • Journal · 205 replies
  • Dear members, Yesterday, Inspire reached a milestone: five million posts written by members! Each of these posts, and the 700 million words they contain, are a simple measure of how much we all do to ...

MY AFIRMA THYROID TEST CAME BACK 40% SUSPICIOUS ON MY ISTHMUS NODULE!

Cindi_S
  • By Cindi_S · New reply 11:01 am
  • Discussion in Other thyroid diseases · 7 replies
  • Hi everyone, Below is a post I made last night to DR.Mark Lupo a great endocrinologist on the great informative health site,MedHelp. Dr.Lupo, I just got a call from Dr.Caroline Kim at University of Penn ...

Hashimoto Thyroiditis

vegas53
  • By vegas53 · New reply 10:19 am
  • Discussion in Other thyroid diseases · 25 replies
  • I have had Hashimoto Thyroiditis for 21 years . I have had three different times in the past 3 yrs my TSH count got down to 0.234 . I had the shakes and tremors , lump in throat, weight gain, tired all ...

Thyroid surgery soon

CarolinaGirl77
  • By CarolinaGirl77 · New reply 3:47 am
  • Journal · 38 replies
  • Two and a half days until thyroid surgery. Two weeks ago, April 29th, I was sitting in the doctors office with day to day stuff on my mind, never expecting life would change when the doctor walked into ...

Losing Weight

angelrejoices
  • By angelrejoices · Posted yesterday at 9:46 pm
  • Discussion in Hypothyroidism · 0 replies
  • For me it has been and up hill journey, I am now at 197 lb, use to be close to 218, I have gotten down to 188 lb, but about a year 1/2 ago my thyroid changed and my med had to be doubled. I am now doing ...

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reb94
  • By reb94 · New reply yesterday at 9:36 pm
  • Journal · 3 replies
  • I keep getting told over and over again that I am so young to have thyroid problems. It has gotten old pretty quickly. I know I am young but that doesn't change the fact that I have thyroid problems ...

please help any advice welcome.

becky84
  • By becky84 · New reply yesterday at 9:13 pm
  • Discussion in Hypothyroidism · 13 replies
  • hi. I had a total thyroidectomy in October 2012. I was extremely hyperthyroid and allergic to meds so had full removal. since operation I am on 175 levothyroxine and suffered with severe depression treated ...

Thyroid nodules with lymph nodes involved

CarolinaGirl77
  • By CarolinaGirl77 · New reply yesterday at 9:11 pm
  • Discussion in Other thyroid diseases · 4 replies
  • I first discovered a lump in my thyroid 5-6 years ago. I've been to several doctors and have had ultrasounds done and a couple biopsy's. The last biopsy was 3 years ago and didn't show cancer but was ...

Virgin Coconut Oil

smileyhappy
  • By smileyhappy · New reply yesterday at 9:05 pm
  • Discussion in Living with a thyroid disease · 3 replies
  • Hi there, I use Virgin Coconut Oil for several things but I hear people are having success with eating 1 or 2 tsp or tbsp. a day to loose weight successfully. I have had my Thyroid out and my metabolism ...

Anyone have normal thyroid levels but constant thyroid symptoms?

MommyToAMiracle
  • By MommyToAMiracle · New reply yesterday at 3:53 pm
  • Discussion in Hypothyroidism · 20 replies
  • I've been struggling with a multitude of symptoms for 4 years now. I've been following up with a rhematologist for the last 6 months because I have all of the symptoms of fibromyalgia and my blood work ...

Losing Weight

missfatgirlslim

Anatabloc experiment for Hashimoto's thyroiditis.....

jillbingham
  • By jillbingham · New reply May 16, 2013
  • Journal · 8 replies
  • Tomorrow 4/30/13 I am starting Anatabloc - unflavored. I'm taking two pills four times daily dosage for weight per recommendation on the back of the bottle. Labs history: April 2012 TPO antibodies < 1300 ...

Hyperthyroidism

reb94
  • By reb94 · New reply May 15, 2013
  • Discussion in Hyperthyroidism · 1 reply
  • I have been diagnosed with hyperthyroidism but I seem to have many of the symptoms of hypothyroidism. Anyone else have a similar problem ...

Wow, Turmeric Is Amazing!

sherpeace
  • By sherpeace · Posted May 15, 2013
  • Discussion in Treatment · 0 replies
  • Your Daily Feng Shui Tip by Ellen Whitehurst for Wednesday, May 15 Today is 'Turn Beauty Inside Out Day' and I'd like to share a time-tested way to be beautiful both inside and out. Taking tumeric in ...

Trouble swallowing cough and hoarse voice in the morn and night x 4 mos.

lilmissnikki
  • By lilmissnikki · Posted May 15, 2013
  • Discussion in Hypothyroidism · 0 replies
  • I am curious what type of swallowing problems that occur w thyroid issues. I have been diagnosed w hypothyroidism after i gained over 30lbs in 4 months and developed a bunch of other probs w memory and ...

Beginning My Thyroid Journey

reb94
  • By reb94 · Posted May 14, 2013
  • Journal · 0 replies
  • Nearly a year ago I was diagnosed with depression. The doctors decided to check my TSH levels and found they were a little off. Several weeks and lots of testing later I found out that the left side of ...

Informative article on subclinical hypothyroidism

endlesslove
  • By endlesslove · Posted May 14, 2013
  • Discussion in Hypothyroidism · 0 replies
  • I am on many different health related mailing lists and received this information yesterday. I wanted to share it with my friends here on Inspire. I learned much from it. I am not recommending any certain ...

Complete thyroidectomy

Zydecothefierce1

Help my thyroid levels

Paisley692
  • By Paisley692 · New reply May 9, 2013
  • Discussion in Hypothyroidism · 21 replies
  • OK everyone my thyroid levels on 01-28-13 was TSH-0.41 and T4,Free-1.5. Then on 03-19-13 Vitamin D - 17; TSH-4.32; T4 Total-4.3; Free T4 Index-1.3; T4 Free-0.7. On 04-23-13 TSH 6.00; Free T4-1.3; T4 Free-0.7 ...

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