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…
The original term for hypothyroidism “myxoedema” on old death certificates
One day while I was posting an article on the Hypothyroid Mom Facebook Page, a comment from a follower jumped off the screen at me. All I saw was “I…
First recorded accounts of the clinical features of adult hypothyroidism, 1873
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]