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…
Hypothyroidism And The Heart, by a Cardiologist
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…
Real people share their worst (downright awful) hypothyroidism symptoms
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,…
10 signs your feet are warning you about a thyroid problem
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…
Mona Lisa: Classic Signs of Hypothyroidism in the World’s Most Famous Painting
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…
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]