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My Darn Hypothyroid Legs

March 8, 2021 by Dana Trentini 102 Comments

“I can’t feel my legs. They’re numb or something, Hey wait, are they swollen?” I wondered as I shaved my legs one day several months after the birth of my first son in 2006. I glided the razor over my lower legs again then again and again as the feelings of surprise then disbelief then fear came over me suddenly that something was wrong with my legs.

It would take many more months before I received my diagnosis of severe hypothyroidism. Now looking back all these years later, my body was whispering, okay more like shouting, warning signs that something wasn’t right.

Hypothyroidism And The Heart, by a Cardiologist

February 11, 2020 by Dana Trentini 48 Comments

women with cardiac symptoms from hypothyroidism

I was searching for recently published studies on the connection between hypothyroidism and heart disease and there I found hundreds, yes hundreds, right before my eyes. Then one day a cardiologist from England contacted me with this guest post that everyone with hypothyroidism needs to read.

Real people share their worst (downright awful) hypothyroidism symptoms

February 5, 2019 by Dana Trentini 86 Comments

It is one thing to read articles about hypothyroidism symptoms online but quite another to hear the symptoms straight from real people. These are real people, like you and me, struggling with a collection of symptoms so hard to pinpoint that they baffle doctors in every country of the world. While we don’t know one another personally, the truth is that we are connected, just the same, in a particularly powerful way. We are living in the trenches together fighting a battle against this thing called hypothyroidism.

10 signs your feet are warning you about a thyroid problem

November 20, 2018 by Dana Trentini 189 Comments

Snuggled in a fluffy white bathrobe in an upscale spa, I was waiting to have my feet pampered with a deluxe pedicure as the basin was filling with warm, fragrant water.

“Your feet are extremely dry with thick, hardened skin on your heels that have deep cracks. I see feet like this in women with sickness,” the woman remarked, a little too loudly, inspecting my feet at close range.

“What type of sickness?” I whispered, feeling very embarrassed as people in the crowded spa turned to gawk at my feet.

“You should see your doctor about your feet.”

This woman giving me a pedicure could see as plain as day the signs of a serious health condition right there in my feet, but it would take 10 more years to finally receive my formal diagnosis: severe hypothyroidism. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Hypothyroidism Symptoms Tagged With: Chronic Pain, cold intolerance, Dry Skin, feet, Infections, skin, Swelling, toenails, yellow skin

Mona Lisa: Classic Signs of Hypothyroidism in the World’s Most Famous Painting

November 16, 2018 by Dana Trentini 7 Comments

Five centuries after Leonardo da Vinci created the Mona Lisa, people flock to the Louvre Museum in Paris just to catch a glimpse of her. Behind bulletproof glass, this woman’s portrait is so alluring that it has millions of visitors every year. It is believed that the subject of the portrait was Lisa Gherardini, wife of a wealthy silk merchant in Florence Italy named Francesco del Giocondo, hence the Mona Lisa is also known as La Gioconda.

Her mysterious smile is the common explanation given for her allure, but is there more to the story? [Read more…]

Filed Under: Hypothyroidism Symptoms Tagged With: Depression, Goiter, Hair Loss, loss of eyebrows, puffy face, skin lumps, Swelling, yellow skin

First recorded accounts of the clinical features of adult hypothyroidism, 1873

May 4, 2018 by Dana Trentini 9 Comments

Queen Victoria (1819-1901)

Queen Victoria’s court physician Sir William Withey Gull is credited as the first person to record the clinical features of hypothyroidism in adults in his 1873 seminal paper.[1] [Read more…]

Filed Under: Hypothyroidism Symptoms Tagged With: Hair Loss, mental illness, myxedema, skin, Swelling