Subject: Re: thyroid disease and bipolar disorder

[Guest guest]

Hi Fay- It also has happened to our family with all four living adult

children with hyperthyroid, graves; the oldest with ted's, (me with mild

symptoms), the next was diagnosed schitzo at 26, and the youngest paranoid

schitzo at 17. At 47, I'm first finding out about it but have probably lived

with all my life.

I talked about it with a childhood psych (my thinking is the onset and

severity of the illness was in correlation with exposure to secondhand smoke

from our mother). She said 25% of households still have one smoker. (Probably

not the chain smoker our mother was) but still high odds.

Weird part is- not a single doctor thought to look or test them (even though

our mother's mother and father had hyperT)

Keep rambling on - Sher