The Doctor who discovered Hashimotos

[Nanaedake]

This might have been posted before but it's an interesting article about how Hashimotos got its name after the Doctor who discovered it. It's interesting to read how he evaluated the thyroid conditions of his patients which led to his discovery. He died uncelebrated for his discovery after contracting disease from a home visit to a patient.

healio.com/endocrinology/th...

[marigold22]

May God bless him. I wish my GP or even an endo had told me I had Hashimoto's Thyroiditis any time between diagnosis in 1981 and when I discovered via a private blood test in January 2017. I thought I had straight forward Hypothyroidism. Hashimoto's involves inflammation in the body. I have now eliminated all my inflammation with the help of a homeopath with a 'special diet'. Boy oh boy, I feel like a different person, feel like I've been reborn. GPs and Professors of Endocrinology are amazingly ignorant.

[Nanaedake in reply to marigold22]

I thought it was interesting to read how he carefully evaluated his patients to find out what was wrong with them. I like the sound of his dedication to his family and his patients, risking his life to visit patients with infectious diseases. The Japanese Endocrine Society honour him by using his image as a symbol of pioneering spririt so it seems to sum up the best and I wish that thyroid patients experienced that level of interest in their condition today.

[Avidreader in reply to marigold22]

Agree !!!! 20 years I’ve wasted being fobbed off with Levothyroxine- told I had Chronic Fatigue-

Until I read Amy Myers MD BOOK the Thyroid Connection! Found on Twitter !

My diet is very very restricted but boy what a difference - I just want to find a good endo or expert to hide me now on my new journey with Nature Throid ( which after just 2 months of taking has been unavailable !)

[marigold22 in reply to Avidreader]

Avidreader Please take a look at my updated Profile.... started a new way of eating in August this year..... has changed my life.

I have apparently now got rid of all the inflammation connected to Hashimotos

[Avidreader in reply to marigold22]

I’ve just read your profile & I could hug you for what you have been through just because there isn’t the support for our disease -

I totally agree re the diet !! In July 2017 I discovered the Amy Myers MD The Thyroid Connection book

& the diet sounds similar although I’m

Not supposed to eat dairy either 😩

I did a strict elimination diet in August & like you it changed my life !

I have to say sometimes I rebel ! I work in the food biz with amazing chefs & I miss dairy especially

I’ve always cooked from scratch & eat organic & was even gluten free but it seems that wasn’t enough ! Soy is a big one to omit it seems & they put it in so many things

when I rebel the inflammation comes back - my legs , face , fingers etc puff

I now need to see if I can source Nature Throid - more stress !

I do get palpitations? You ?

I see an acupuncturist & she noticed big difference in me after my Thyroid Auto immune diet -

Take care , keep in touch

[marigold22 in reply to Avidreader]

I used to get palpitations but not any more. I think the No Grains at all bit has helped me a lot x

[Avidreader in reply to marigold22]

Yes but don’t you sometimes feel rebellious with food ? I so miss the odd biscuit !

[marigold22 in reply to Avidreader]

No I don't ! My son and grandson visited me last week and brought a Fruit Corner 'Yoghurt' (full of sugar) and a pair of chocolate mousse topped with cream. My grandson ate the 'fake yoghurt with fruit syrup' but they left the two choc mousses in my fridge. I ate one and felt like I was eating pure poison! Threw the second one away. I do have half a teaspoon of sugar in my tea and coffee but any foods which I call "messed with" I don't crave at all. I now know what goes into them and it's all a Big Company game to make us get addicted and crave more.

[matty220]

I had a goitre come up after the birth of my son in 1976. I was diagnosed as hyperthyroid and, after regulating it a bit with medication, I had a thyroidectomy about 8 months later. I was 26. I didn't get any symptoms, and I wasn't on any medication until I hit the menopause in 1997, then I went hypothyroid and was put on Levothyroxine. It seemed fine for a lot of years, until the last 5 really I think. This is when I started my research and found this wonderful site!

Amazingly, at a doctors appointment last year one GP said, ah, you had Hashimotos didn't you. I said I didn't know that. Nobody had ever said this to me before (or since) and nothing has ever been looked into any more. It's interesting what Marigold22 says about inflammation and I'll certainly start doing more research into this.

I've now been on NDT for a couple of years, and supplement with folic acid and Bcomplex. This is all down to you guys and I thank you all for giving me my life back - and that is not being too extravagant!!

[JAGL in reply to matty220]

matty220 is not alone. I was put on NDT at 26 years old for hypothyroid-like symptoms. Then NDT became illegal so I was switched to levo which I took for 30 years with no problem. Menopaused at 40. Then I crashed last year with hyperthyroidism at 60 when the owner started renovating our building, I breathed in the dust and got lead poisoning. Finally, I found a special section of the endo clinic in a hospital nearby and started coming around.

At my last appointment with the specialist he said: you know that you not only have Turner Syndrome but also Hashimotos. But, no I did not know about the Hashimotos! No one ever told me that. Besides, my tests have never shown any antibodies.

Is this possible?

[marigold22 in reply to matty220]

Shocking that they did a thyroidectomy when you had Hashimotos all along.

[matty220 in reply to marigold22]

It was 1976 so I suppose medical knowledge was much less then. I was only 26 and didn’t know to question everything like I do now!!

[kavidacat]

Very interesting. Thank you. So much to learn about the thyroid. My Grandmother died if Myxodaema, not sure if spelling, which comes of an untreated Hypothyroidism I believe. It was not recognised in her day. Her Mother died in a mental hospital in Sussex but research I have done shows she had all the symptoms of Hypothyroidism and again, left untreated, became something akin to what was recognised as madness, inappropriate laughter. Very sad. We have come a long way since then but still much to learn. It us definitely inherited.