Re: STills Fog/Thyroid and Stills

[Guest guest]

have to be extremely careful here when making " always " claims. Kind

of

like the old geometry adage that " a square is a rectangle, but a

recatangle is not always a square. "

Some, and very likely a large number of Thyroid Disease cases are

autoimmune in nature. Especially when you consider Hashimoto's (40%

of

Hypothyroidism cases) and Grave's, which is also high on the list of

Hyperthyroidism. In our subsets where we have autoimmune diseases we

probably have an extremely higher likelihood of getting other

autoimmune diseases and this would include the thyroid related ones.

However, and again this is where our PCP and RD come into play and do

and should do a complete workup to differentiate if it is autoimmune

in nature.

Remember with our meds we are also prone to other " bad " things.

There are thyroid problems that are endocrine or tumor related.

Those things need to be ruled out as well. So pay attention to your

symptoms and bring them to the attention of you rheumy so they can be

reviewed and worked up.

Remember that your docs should be consulted with any new or

discovered symptoms for your conditions.

Tom from PA

>Yes Thyroid disease is diffinetly an auto immune disease people

>   Ann Fultz

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