Hashimoto’s Disease, also known as Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis, Autoimmune Hypothyroiditis, and Chronic Lymphocytic Thyroiditis, is a chronic autoimmune illness wherein the body’s immune system mistakenly attacks the thyroid gland. This attack upon the thyroid gland causes the body to be deficient in thyroid hormones, a condition called “hypothyroidism.” Hypothyroidism causes a variety of troubling symptoms, and ...
When I was nineteen years old, I was diagnosed with autoimmune hepatitis. It was a complete shock to me, especially since I had never heard of the disease before. I had been having some strange symptoms, but I didn’t think they could signal hepatitis. There was no history of liver disease in our family, and ...
There’s a medical condition that many people have without knowing it. It’s call hypothyroidism, the term for low thyroid function. The fact is, many of us, particularly women, walk around feeling cold, tired, fat, and grumpy. We blame it on growing old. But that word has been stricken from my vocabulary. That’s how I discovered ...
Hashimoto’s disease, also known as Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, is a thyroid disease in which the body’s own immune system attacks and destroys the thyroid gland, often resulting in hypothyroidism. It is one of many autoimmune diseases which occur when the immune system becomes misdirected and attacks the organs or tissues that it was initially designed to ...
Why a person develops an autoimmune disorder is still one of the medicals mysteries. What is an autoimmune disorder? It is a disorder that causes one’s immune system which normally protects one’s body to actually turn against the body and creates its own diseases. More than 80 conditions can fall under the category of an ...
