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How to Articles for Thyroid Disease

In five to fifteen easy steps, learn how to perform tasks or tests related to thyroid disease diagnosis, treatment and symptom management.

Difficulty Time Req'd How to
easy 5 minutes Take Your Thyroid Medication
easy 5 minutes Interpret Your TSH Blood Test Results
easy 5 minutes Tell If You Are Hypothyroid
easy 5 minutes Tell If You Are Hyperthyroid
easy 5 minutes Prevent Thyroid Disease
easy 5 minutes Find a Top Thyroid Doctor
easy 5 minutes Do a Thyroid Self-Check
easy 5 minutes Reverse Thyroid-Related Infertility
easy 5 minutes Start a Thyroid Support Group
easy 5 minutes Lose Weight With Hypothyroidism

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TALK ABOUT IT IN PERSON! There's a great deal of informtaion to share about how to live with thyroid disease.
The Thyroid Forum is THE place to talk about getting diagnosed and properly treated for your thyroid problem. Stop by the Main Thyroid Forum, the Thyroid Diet and Weight Loss Forum, and the Thyroid Top Doctors/Support Groups Forum, to find out more. Here are some of the latest discussions at the main Thyroid Bulletin Boards:



About.com Thyroid Disease News Report
There are new developments happening all the time in the world of health, and even in conventional and alternative thyroid disease treatment. These developments are covered here at the site. To make sure you don't miss any new information that might help, I put out a regular About.com Thyroid Newsletter that provides free updates on new features and new information here at the website. It's the best way to keep up with what's new here at the About.com Thyroid Website. You can subscribe at the About.com Thyroid Site Newsletter Signup page or right here,
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Mary Shomon's New Thyroid Book
My book Living Well With Hypothyroidism: What Your Doctors Don't Tell You...That You Need to Know, was published in March of 2000 by HarperCollins/Avon's WholeCare Line. The book provides in-the-trenches, practical patient-oriented advice on how to find the right doctor to diagnose and treat various forms of hypothyroidism, the drugs for hypothyroidism you and your doctor may not know about, fertility and successful pregnancy with hypothyroidism, alternative therapies for hypothyroidism and its symptoms and side effects, combatting weight gain and successful weight loss, depression, and much
more. It's a complete manual of living well for anyone with hypothyroidism, whether due to congenital hypothyroidism, thyroid surgery, radioactive iodine treatment, antithyroid drugs, or autoimmune disease. Find out more information, read a free chapter online, see the book's table of contents, check out what readers and doctors are saying, and find out how to order online.

Sticking Out Our Necks, The Thyroid Disease News Report
Patient-oriented news report filled with the latest conventional and alternative news from around the world related to thyroid disease, related symptoms and conditions, and the drugs, treatments, alternative remedies, and other information you need to feel well. Free monthly by email, and bimonthly by paid subscription. Send an email with the subject "Subscribe newsletter" to sign up. Free 10-page issue, #10 self-addressed stamped (55 cents) envelope to: Sticking Out Our Necks, Dept S, P.O. Box 0385, Palm Harbor, FL 34682.

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