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Clinically Speaking: Questions and Answers About Graves’ disease
Read More: Clinically Speaking: Questions and Answers About Graves’ diseaseYour thyroid is a little butterfly-shaped gland in your neck that makes and releases hormones. These hormones help regulate many important body functions like metabolism and body temperature. If your thyroid isnโt working properly, you may develop a thyroid condition, like Graves’ disease. โWomen are more likely to have Graves’ disease than men, and we…
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Making Sense of Your Thyroid Lab Results
Read More: Making Sense of Your Thyroid Lab Results+ Infographic text Your thyroid is a gland in your neck that is controlled by the pituitary gland. It makes hormones that play a role in regulating important functions like: Body temperature Digestion Heart rate Mood To check how your thyroid is working, your healthcare provider (HCP) can order the following blood tests: TSH T4…
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Breaking Down Graves’ Disease Treatment Options
Read More: Breaking Down Graves’ Disease Treatment OptionsYou might not spend that much time thinking about your thyroid, but itโs doing an awful lot for you. The small butterfly-shaped gland in your neck helps regulate things like your body temperature, heart rate and metabolism. When you have Gravesโ disease, an autoimmune condition that affects five times as many women as men, the…
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Gravesโ Disease 101
Read More: Gravesโ Disease 101July is Gravesโ Disease Awareness Month. Gravesโ disease is an autoimmune condition that mainly affects your thyroid. Prompt diagnosis and treatment is important because, without treatment, the disease can lead to serious health problems such as heart failure and osteoporosis. This is especially important to note because women and people assigned female at birth are…
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Hypothyroidism Caused Serious Problems for My Body and My Mind
Read More: Hypothyroidism Caused Serious Problems for My Body and My MindAs told to Jacquelyne Froeber January is Thyroid Awareness Month. โHave you noticed some asymmetry in your neck?โ my friend asked. As physicians, we didnโt usually spend our off time looking at abnormalities on each other, but she was right. The right side of my neck was slightly more swollen than the left. Luckily, my…
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HGTVโs Jenn Todryk Gets Candid About Managing Hashimotoโs Disease
Read More: HGTVโs Jenn Todryk Gets Candid About Managing Hashimotoโs DiseaseOn her hit HGTV television series, โNo Demo Reno,โ Jenn Todryk, 35, is known for her high-energy approach to remodeling homes without a total demolition. Through her blog and Instagram account, Todryk gets candid with her fans about her design work, family and how she lives with Hashimotoโs disease, a chronic autoimmune thyroid condition that…
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Deborah Norville Keeps Her Viewers Close and Her Doctors Closer
Read More: Deborah Norville Keeps Her Viewers Close and Her Doctors CloserFor more than 25 years, Deborah Norville, 65, has been on screen in living rooms across America as the host of the popular show Inside Edition, among other shows. And while sheโs spent much of her career informing the public, Norville never expected that someone would return the favor. In 2000, an eagle-eyed viewer, whoโd…
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Hashimotoโs Disease 101
Read More: Hashimotoโs Disease 101I was on a morning walk getting my steps in when I passed a car window and my reflection stopped me in my tracks. My face was pale, puffy and round, shining like the moon in the early rays of the sun. My hands flew to my neck, which looked swollen. I felt around, nothing…
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I Lost My Singing Career to Thyroid Cancer โ And Found My True Voice
Read More: I Lost My Singing Career to Thyroid Cancer โ And Found My True VoiceJanuary is Thyroid Awareness Month As told to Nicole Audrey Spector When I was in college, I was diagnosed with Hashimotoโs disease, also called Hashimotoโs thyroiditis, an autoimmune disease where the bodyโs immune system attacks its own cells and your thyroid is chronically inflamed. Thyroid disease runs in my family on my motherโs side, so…
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The Phases of Thyroid Eye Disease
Read More: The Phases of Thyroid Eye DiseaseMedically reviewed by Raymond Douglas, M.D., Ph.D., Cedars-Sinai + Infographic text What is thyroid eye disease (TED)? TED is an autoimmune condition that causes your immune cells to attack the healthy skin and tissue around and behind your eyes. If you have a thyroid condition and are experiencing eye symptoms, you may have TED. TED…
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Thyroid Eye Disease 101
Read More: Thyroid Eye Disease 101Medically reviewed by Raymond Douglas, M.D., Ph.D., Cedars-Sinai November 14-20, 2022 is Thyroid Eye Disease Awareness Week. What is thyroid eye disease (TED)? Thyroid eye disease, or TED, is an autoimmune disorder that causes inflammation in the eye muscles, eyelids, tear glands and fatty tissues behind the eye. TED is sometimes called Gravesโ ophthalmopathy or…
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Hashimotoโs Disease Brought the Curtain Down on My Career As a Soloist in the NYC Ballet
Read More: Hashimotoโs Disease Brought the Curtain Down on My Career As a Soloist in the NYC BalletAs told to Erica Rimlinger January is Thyroid Awareness Month. From my first ballet class at the age of 3, the only thing I wanted to do was to dance. My parents tried to entice me into a well-rounded program of childhood athletics with soccer and gymnastics, but I only wanted to leap, twirl, pliรฉ…
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Clinically Speaking: Questions to Ask Your Healthcare Provider (HCP) About Osteoporosis
Read More: Clinically Speaking: Questions to Ask Your Healthcare Provider (HCP) About OsteoporosisMedically reviewed by Dr. Risa Kagan Osteoporosis is a medical condition that causes your bones to become brittle and fragile as a result of losing bone tissue, and it’s one of the most common health conditions that women experience. In fact, one in two women will break a bone in their lifetime as a result…
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Fast Facts: Everything You Need to Know About the Thyroid
Read More: Fast Facts: Everything You Need to Know About the ThyroidJanuary is National Thyroid Awareness Month. Medically reviewed by Dr. Uzma M. Siddiqui. In the United States, approximately 20 million people have thyroid disease, and women are five to eight times more likely to develop a problem than men. Up to 60% of people with a thyroid condition are unaware of their condition since the…
