Thyroid Nation - United We Heal

Happy World Thyroid Day, fellow Warriors! Wishing you all well wishes and healing. Let us all continue to spread the awareness! #thyroiddisease #thyroid #hashimotos #thyroiddiseaseawareness #spreadawareness #thyroiditis #chronicillness #illness #warrior #warriors #thyroidwarriors #hashimotosdisease #worldthyroidday #thyroidday #hypothyroid #hyperthyroid #overactive #underactive #hypo #butterfly #damnthebutterfly

Danna :)

January is Thyroid Disease Awareness Month To be honest, I typically don’t give much thought to “awareness months,” but often times they’re about things that people are already PLENTY aware of, such as cancer. I’m of course not saying they aren’t important, just that… who doesn’t know about cancer, right? But Thyroid Disease is horribly underdiagnosed, undertreated, misunderstood by even the medical community, and it’s an invisible illness that leaves people thinking you’re “just lazy” or “going crazy” or any other number of things. We’re often diagnosed with something else, or with a bunch of other things, leaving our thyroids untreated. Testing for thyroid diseases is woefully terrible, and if you’re “lucky” enough that the few numbers they test are outside the far too broad range of ‘normal’ to be diagnoses, chances are you won’t be treated properly. They’re taught far too often to treat by the numbers, and not the patient, which goes counter to everything you would think they should really have learned…! I’m so fortunate to have found a doctor that listens to ME and not just to my lab results. I’ve gotten so much wonderful information from him as well, and have found more information on my own time. I will always urge people to look very closely into thyroid conditions and demand a full range of tests and to SEE YOUR NUMBERS FOR YOURSELF. Thyroid Disease is VERY common, and as I said, VERY underdiagnosed. Look into it closely if there is even a chance, and demand no less. It’s your health, and your quality of life. Take it seriously. It makes a huge difference. I promise you.

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