How the Thyroid Gland Mystifies Docs and Sufferers

By Oona Tempest and Andy Miller

November 27, 2023

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<br /> <span class="byline">Oona Tempest and Andy Miller</span></p><div class='code-block code-block-4' style='margin: 8px 0; clear: both;'> <!-- Yandex.RTB --> <script>window.yaContextCb=window.yaContextCb||[]</script> <script src="https://yandex.ru/ads/system/context.js" async></script><!-- Yandex.RTB R-A-11894754-2 --> <div id="yandex_rtb_R-A-11894754-2"></div> <script> window.yaContextCb.push(() => { Ya.Context.AdvManager.render({ "blockId": "R-A-11894754-2", "renderTo": "yandex_rtb_R-A-11894754-2" }) }) </script></div> <p>About 25 years in the past, Andy Miller realized he had hypothyroidism, a situation that afflicts tens of millions of different People. Interested in how this situation was affecting others, the KFF Well being Information journalist interviewed endocrinologists who deal with hypothyroidism and several other sufferers who dwell with it. Their tales revealed how mystifying thyroid and autoimmune situations may be.</p> <p><em>This illustrated report has been tailored from a KFF Well being Information article, “<a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/autoimmune-disease-patients-diagnosis-hurdles-thyroid-hashimoto/">Amongst Hurdles for Autoimmune Illness Sufferers: Prognosis, Prices, Inattentive Care</a>” by Andy Miller.</em></p><div class='code-block code-block-5' style='margin: 8px 0; clear: both;'> <!-- Yandex.RTB --> <script>window.yaContextCb=window.yaContextCb||[]</script> <script src="https://yandex.ru/ads/system/context.js" async></script><!-- Yandex.RTB R-A-11894754-6 --> <div id="yandex_rtb_R-A-11894754-6"></div> <script> window.yaContextCb.push(() => { Ya.Context.AdvManager.render({ "blockId": "R-A-11894754-6", "renderTo": "yandex_rtb_R-A-11894754-6", "type": "feed" }) }) </script></div> <p><em>Illustrations by Oona Tempest.</em></p> <p><em>Artistic path and modifying by Hannah Norman, with further modifying by Sabriya Rice.</em></p> <p><em>Copy modifying by Terry Byrne.</em></p> <p>
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