Hashimoto

[helvella]

Of absolutely no use whatsoever, but just found out ...

The Japanese word "hashi" means bridge.

The name Hashimoto means the strength at the base of the bridge. It was a military title, like all the names that end in "moto".

[FallingInReverse]

I’ve never been thrilled that I have something with such a weird name. Any idea why it’s called that? I had some assumption that someone named Hashimotos discovered it.

[PPower in reply to FallingInReverse]

I don’t find it a weird name but Dr. Hashimoto was from Japan and was very interested in the thyroid. He did indeed, discover what we now know as Hashimoto’s.

[Rosebud1955 in reply to PPower]

That’s correct indeed! A Japanese doctor discovered it, it was then named after him.

[tattybogle in reply to FallingInReverse]

would you like to meet Dr Hashimoto ? ( and Mr Graves ) : healthunlocked.com/thyroidu...

[TSH110 in reply to tattybogle]

You beat me to it by a long chalk and got two endocrinology greats in for the price of one to boot 😉 worse stil I read your original post and links at the time but have no recollection of doing so whatsoever 😳

[jgelliss]

Very interesting Helvella. When I tell people that I have Hashimoto they say What? What is that? You see them starting to distance themselves from me as if they are going to catch it from me.It sounds to them very strange. They don't know how to react. Thank You Helvella.

[TSH110]

I love word derivations, thanks!

[Britpol]

My understanding is that it was a Japanese surgeon by the name Hashimoto that diagnosed the condition.

[TSH110]

He sounds a very remarkable man, his dedication as a GP puts ours to shame. A devout Buddhist too. Well worth a read.

Hakaru Hashimoto (Wikipedia):

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakar...

[TSH110 in reply to TSH110]

Reinventing the wheel again I should have realised he’d been posted up before. I got very confused seeing posted 4 years ago on tats post, you alerted me to, thinking I was here! I was so thrown I thought the site alerts had gone wrong. I didn’t have you down as playing mind games helvella 🤣🤣🤣

[arTistapple]

Like our own ancestors and that of many cultures, the Japanese used names which referred to the person’s strengths or interests. Hashimoto’s name sounds it was indeed drawn from his own strengths and that of his forbears. It sounds like the strength we must draw too to, in bearing this condition, particularly in the face of no help (derision) from our own medics.

Did you mean to highlight this ‘strength’ too, from the information you have provided helvella?

Just yesterday I was expounding this to a fellow sufferer, saying we must be a lot stronger than we think, putting up with the myriad symptoms and morbidities that having poorly treated (never mind acknowledged) Hashimotos leads us, with no sensible lead from our medics. AsTSH110 highlighted “his dedication as a GP puts ours to shame”. I would add endocrinologists and cardiologists to that shortlist.

[TSH110 in reply to arTistapple]

Mine could mean blanket maker - useful when you feel so darn cold with hypo you’re going to freeze!

Yes it can be a very tough journey requiring every ounce of our strength to keep going.

We need more Hakaru Hashimotos in this world.

[arTistapple in reply to TSH110]

Yes I have been known to make a blanket or two. I might have said previously, whilst I was very ill (thought I was dying) I made good on a promise to make my four granddaughters ‘memory quilts’. They are each full size double/queen size quilts. If I say so myself, they are all individual, mainly in each granddaughter’s favourite colours and bound in their distinctive favourite colour. It’s an achievement I am pretty proud of - for more reasons than one. It helped me enormously to have managed it. It got me out of bed in the morning and allowed me to work in the long sleepless nights. Something to focus on rather than my pathetic self. However I was still ill at the end of it all, when I finally found the Forum. Thank goodness.

My family name was a variation on ‘no-one’ and ‘spy’ presumably because we appeared to be unremarkable in any way. My married family name is something to do with ferns - big in Brittany. His family came over during the Norman Conquest of Britain.

“Every ounce”. Yup, well said TSH110.

[TSH110 in reply to arTistapple]

Wow they sound wonderful! I have a beautiful book about quilts it is chock full of fabulous designs (USA quilters) many using continuous and simultaneous contrast so they look alive with vibrancy - probably not very restful tho! It’s amazing what can be achieved in a quilt. I have yet to actually make one…

I love ferns - that combined with spy or no one could have amazing artistic applications! Very very zen 😁

my name sounds like it ought to have come over with the Norman conquest but it’s actually Celtic in origin from north Wales.

[arTistapple in reply to TSH110]

Thank you TSH110. Another ‘application’ to think about!

[serenfach]

I remember well being diagnosed. I had had a blood test and the "Endo" came out into the waiting room and announced to all that I had "Hashimotos" I had never heard of it, and to my shame, started singing "I am turning Japanese, I really think so"! (it was a pop song to those of you are now confused!).

He then did nothing. probably wanting to get away from me as soon as possible, just said "see your GP".

[traveltime]

Interesting thread. I always thought the ‘moto’ in hashimoto was the character ‘at the base of’. As in ‘the man/family that lived by the bridge’. I’ll now have to go and consult my dictionary and contacts … maybe I’ve been reading/ interpreting that name wrong forever. A job for the morning.