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Help Save Babies! Universal Thyroid Screening In Pregnancy

June 13, 2013 by 38 Comments

Help Save Babies! Universal Thyroid Screening in Pregnancy

I wonder if I am crazy to think I can change the world, but something deep inside me tells me that this is what I am supposed to do. I launched my blog Hypothyroid Mom on October 1st, 2012 in memory of the unborn baby I lost to hypothyroidism and in dedication to my two boys who beat the odds and made it to the world. When I wrote that first post Have You Suffered A Miscarriage? Your Thyroid Could Be To Blame the words poured out on the page as if someone other than me wrote it. Somehow I knew my unborn baby was watching over me. I know my mission to bring about UNIVERSAL THYROID SCREENING IN PREGNANCY is my destiny. I lost my unborn baby so needlessly. I will ensure my baby did not die in vain by saving babies all across the globe. With your help I will make this happen.

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Hashimoto’s Disease: The Danger of Thyroid Antibodies and Pregnancy

October 22, 2012 by 23 Comments

Hashimoto's Disease: The Danger of Thyroid Antibodies and Pregnancy

In 1990, a significant correlation between high levels of thyroid antibodies and an increased rate of miscarriage was first reported in the scientific literature.[1] Where are we at a generation later?[2] Despite the 20 years of compelling research confirming and expanding upon the initial finding, many doctors do not test a pregnant woman for thyroid antibodies, and few patients know to ask for proper testing. [Read more…]

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Putting Thyroid Blood Testing in Perspective: Lab Tests, Their Meaning & Significance

May 3, 2023 by 1 Comment
Putting thyroid blood testing in perspective

For all the hypothyroidism patients struggling with symptoms but doctors insist their thyroid lab results are normal, normal, NORMAL, this is for you.

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My Darn Hypothyroid Legs

March 8, 2021 by 102 Comments
My darn hypothyroid legs

“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.

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An unnecessary miscarriage. A severely hypothyroid mom. And a vow.

January 28, 2019 by 9 Comments
An unnecessary miscarriage. A severely hypothyroid mom. And a vow.

It was January 2009

In New York City.

And it was cold.

I was so cold.

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How Posture Affects Your Thyroid

December 3, 2018 by 9 Comments

How Posture Affects Your Thyroid

When this chiropractor contacted me about the importance of good posture for thyroid health, there I was slumped in my chair typing a reply on my computer keyboard. I had never really given much thought to my poor posture quite honestly, until then. [Read more…]

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