Hypothyroid

Oprah can no longer get by with the simple idea of eating less and exercising more - the same problem faced by millions of struggling and "hypothyroid" overweight Americans who don't really understand how their bodies work. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Over the holidays, I spent time with my 21-year-old daughter Cammie, who is now following a wheat- and gluten-free diet for a slight hypothyroid condition. ❋ Meg Wolff (2012)

We've had to cut back on edamame and other soybean products b/c of T's hypothyroid condition but I love them. ❋ Laurie Constantino (2009)

Anyway, I wonder if my brother and I are hitting some minor genetic difference, since we seem otherwise very similar (both hypothyroid, e.g.). ❋ Unknown (2009)

I am also working with food to reduce the symptoms of hypothyroid disease, by eliminating cruciferous foods. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In June I went hypothyroid for two weeks so I could have my radioactive iodine treatment. ❋ Joy Preble (2010)

When Knoll reintroduced it years later, they used strategic marketing, promoting it as a "new and modern" treatment and convincing doctors to switch nearly all hypothyroid patients to Synthroid by the 1960's. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The advent of the Internet plopped into the laps of hapless hypothyroid patients like gold by the turn of this century-the seed of a now-fervent global movement against a 50-year medical scandal. ❋ Unknown (2009)

That being wrongly diagnosed is rampant due to the very 'validated' TSH (Thyroid Stimulating Hormone) lab test result they support, i.e. a pituitary hormone, which can be "normal" for years before it rises high enough to reveal one's cellular hypothyroid state; ❋ Unknown (2009)

That thryoxine is the medication wrongly treating thyroid patients, since it leaves most all patients with lingering hypothyroid symptoms which doctors dismiss as belonging to something else; ❋ Unknown (2009)

That those natural treatments, such as desiccated thyroid like Armour made by Forest Labs of the US, are changing lives and removing those lingering hypothyroid symptoms because of the presence of direct T3; ❋ Unknown (2009)

Many undiagnosed hypothyroid patients have reported their fatigue disappeared and mental acuity returned. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Equally as maddening is the ignorance that abounds in the medical community about a treatment that has removed those lingering hypothyroid symptoms: a grassroots return to prescription desiccated natural thyroid aka Armour, Naturethroid, etc. -- the very hypothyroid treatment that was successful for decades before it was replaced. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Newly diagnosed hypothyroid patients followed suit. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Only in the minds of pharmaceutical-patsy doctors, say a growing body of hypothyroid patients who, thanks to internet contact, discovered they weren't alone in having lingering hypothyroid symptoms which doctors dismissed or bandaided with other pills. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Hypothyroidism can [limit] peoples' lives drastically as it causes [excessive] [tiredness]. ❋ Anonymous66746754 (2011)

Anne had [hypothyroidism] which made her gain weight.[skanks] at her school talked about her when she walked down the hall thinking she couldn't hear them, but she could. Anne killed herself at age 12 weighing 110 pounds. (btw the skanks [weighed] 90) ❋ TrueStoryDude (2009)