Thyroid Quotes:

I want people to know that blood tests alone won't always detect thyroid disease. My blood panels were normal. I think a lot more people have this disease than are diagnosed.

- Kim Alexis

topic: Thinking, Blood, People, Thyroid, Blood Tests

I have to be cautious, have my thyroid levels checked, and as long as I do that, I'm fine.

- Gail Devers

topic: Long, Levels, Fine, Be Cautious, Thyroid

Thyroid Panel (blood test)-Abnormal thyroid hormone levels are a common cause of anxiety, depression, forgetfulness, confusion, and lethargy. Having low thyroid levels decreases overall brain activity, which can impair your thinking, judgment, and self-control and make it very hard for you to feel good. Low thyroid functioning can make it nearly impossible to manage weight effectively. To know your thyroid levels, you need to know these figures: thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) Free T3 Free T4 Thyroid antibodies (thyroid peroxidase and thyroglobulin antibodies)

- Daniel Amen

topic: Thinking, Self, Blood, Antibodies, Anxiety Depression

But the problem remains two fold: the need for recognition that low thyroid function very often can provoke menstrual problems, and the need for recognition, too, that hypothyroidism may be present despite laboratory tests suggesting it is not.

- Broda Otto Barnes

topic: Pms, Two, Needs, Hypothyroidism, Often Can

When I was going through menopause, I didn't sleep. I didn't sleep for two years and ended up blowing out my thyroid, and I became nonfunctional. It's difficult to remain fully present if I'm not getting enough sleep, so I work at getting enough.

- Oprah Winfrey

source: Source: www.aarp.org

topic: Sleep, Years, Two, Menopause, Enough Sleep

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

- Christopher Morley

topic: New York, Cities, Literature, Glands, City Life

It is generally assumed that recurrent miscarriage may be due to progesterone deficiency, hypothyroidism or vitamin E deficiency and should be treated in theses cases with progesterone, thyroid extracts and vitamin E respectively. In theory, thyroid therapy appears to be the least well-founded, especially when applied to women without manifest signs of hypothyroidism, yet among the measures mentioned above it is most frequently claimed to have been successful.

- Hans Selye

topic: Miscarriage, Successful, Pms, Hypothyroidism, Deficiency

I dont have a thyroid anymore. I had radioactive iodine treatment, which destroyed my thyroid. I take medication every day.

- Gail Devers

topic: Iodine, Medication, Treatment, Thyroid

Alcohol and drugs are not the problems; they are what people are using to help themselves cope with the problems. Those problems always have both physical and psychological components- anything from anemia, hypoglycemia, or a sluggish thyroid to attention deficient disorder, brain-wave pattern imbalances, or deep emotional pain.

- Chris Prentiss

topic: Pain, Emotional, People, Deep Emotional, Anemia

I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem?

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Funny, Success, Motivational Sports, Sweatshirts, Thyroid

Thyroid secretions in adequate amounts appear to be essential for development of the egg and for proper ovarian secretions. If thyroid function is low, an egg may be discharged from an ovary but it may not be fertilizable or, if fertilized, may not be capable of nesting so that pregnancy is quickly aborted.

- Broda Otto Barnes

topic: Pregnancy, Pms, Eggs, Ovaries, Thyroid

I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment.

- Gail Devers

source: "Gail Devers: 'A girl asked what was wrong with me. She said I looked like a monster'". Interview with Jamie Jackson, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2007.

topic: Disease, Radiation, Illness, Thyroid, Thyroid Gland

Many of the women who benefited from thyroid therapy provided added evidence that it was the thyroid which was responsible. There were the women who, upon being relieved of their {menstrual} problems, stopped taking medication only to return in a few months with their original complaints. Thyroid therapy again overcame their difficulties.

- Broda Otto Barnes

topic: Pms, Fertility, Months, Thyroid

Some people's weight loss is impeded by an impaired thyroid. So I think it's worth testing that at your next physical exam. If it's off, sometimes, that can be caused by excess metals, such as mercury or cadmium. A qualified M.D. can help you cleanse your body of those.

- Tony Robbins

source: Source: www.psychologytoday.com

topic: Loss, Thinking, People, Thyroid

In study at the Mayo Clinic covering fifty consecutive young women with hypothyroidism, twenty-eight has menstrual disturbances. Abnormally profuse menses was a common disturbance; frequent bleeding between periods was another; in some cases, both problems were present. Thyroid therapy relived the disturbances.

- Broda Otto Barnes

topic: Eight, Pms, Fertility, Hypothyroidism, Consecutive

I'm not classically pretty; I've always been too heavy; I've had thyroid disease and it's very hard for me to lose weight - but I've always had men pursue me. I've always had that 'it' thing. God knows why. Maybe it's pheromones, I don't know.

- Erica Jong

source: Interview with Whitney Joiner, logger.believermag.com. October 17, 2013.

topic: Men, Pheromones, Weight, Thyroid

Problems associated with the menstrual cycle are now commonplace. The majority of teenagers whom I have seen suffer problems such as PMS, severe cramping, and irregular or heavy cycles. Severe hypothyroidism may cause the menses to stop. Dr. Barnes noted his patients with menstrual problems usually suffered many other telltale symptoms of hypothyroidism. Mine do as well. A large majority of menstrual problems resolve after treatment with dessicated thyroid.

- Mark Starr

topic: Teenager, Pms, Suffering, Hypothyroidism, Thyroid

I really discovered I had thyroid disease by accident. My son was having some health concerns, and as I filled out his patient history I noticed I had a lot of similar symptoms. I mentioned it to the doctor, and he ran blood work and finally an ultrasound of my thyroid.

- Kim Alexis

topic: Son, Blood, Ultrasounds, Filled Out, Thyroid

Forty years ago, after many years of successful use of thyroid therapy, leading gynecologists in this country and elsewhere were reporting thyroid had cured more menstrual disorders than all other medications combined. Unfortunately, that lesson seems to have been largely lost.

- Broda Otto Barnes

topic: Country, Successful, Years, Gynecologists, Thyroid

..Since depression is a genetic biological illness, like diabetes, or low thyroid, it wasn't lack of character, laziness, or something I could "snap out of"-it would be like trying to snap out of a toothache.

- Peter McWilliams

topic: Depression, Character, Trying, Lack Of Character, Thyroid

I was 52 years old. I had diabetes and incipient arthritis. I had lost my gall bladder and most of my thyroid gland in earlier campaigns, but I was convinced the best was ahead of me.

- Ray Kroc

source: Ray Kroc (2016). “Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's”, p.15, St. Martin's Griffin

topic: Years, Optimism, Campaigns, Arthritis, Thyroid

The medical literature is full of reports going back many years that provide evidence that thyroid medication, used when indicated, is one of the most helpful measures in the treatment of infertility in both men and women. And not infrequently it may be needed by both partners in an infertile marriage.

- Broda Otto Barnes

topic: Men, Years, Pms, Infertility, Thyroid

From what has been said, it would appear that the possibility of thyroid deficiency should be considered, and if found, should be treated in any woman with a menstrual abnormality or a reproductive problem. It was generally agree that correction of thyroid deficiency solved many such abnormalities and problems - until about 1940.

- Broda Otto Barnes

topic: Pms, Fertility, Problem, Deficiency, Abnormality

Everybody is I, you all know you are you. And wheresoever's beings exist throughout all galaxies it doesn't any difference. You are all of them, and when they come into being that's you coming into being, you know that very well. Only you don't have to remember the past in the same way you don't have to think about how you work your thyroid gland. You don't have to know how to shine the sun, you just do it, like you breathe. Doesn't it really astonish you that you are this fantastically complex thing, and that you're doing all of this and you never had any education on how to do it.

- Alan Watts

topic: Past, Thinking, Differences, Glands, Thyroid

On thyroid therapy, more than 90 percent of those with painful menstruation were relieved, most of them completely. The results were fully as good in converting irregular periods to normal, regular ones. And in six of seven women with excessive flow, normal flow was established.

- Broda Otto Barnes

topic: Pms, Fertility, Flow, Menstruation, Thyroid

I told Augustus the broad outline of my miracle: diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was thirteen. (I didn’t tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You’re a woman. Now die.)

- John Green

source: "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green and Rodrigo Corral, January 10, 2012.

topic: Cancer, Congratulations, Miracle, Cancer Diagnosis, Thyroid

When my friends have a health concern, they call me. Ive always been a vitamin taker. I also take digestive enzymes and antioxidants, and supplements that help with the thyroid and adrenals for my time-zone changes.

- Carla Gugino

topic: Enzymes, Vitamins, Helping, Antioxidants, Time Zones

Certainly miscarriage is not invariably related to low thyroid function. There are many other possible causes. Yet soon after thyroid therapy first became available, it was found that patients with a history of miscarriages often had a history compatible with thyroid deficiency and that full-term pregnancies might follow treatment with thyroid.

- Broda Otto Barnes

topic: Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Pms, Compatible, Thyroid

Laboratory tests are the next set of important numbers to know. Here are the key lab test numbers you need to know:   1. Complete blood count   2. General metabolic panel with fasting blood sugar and lipid panel   3. HgA1C   4. Vitamin D   5. Thyroid panel   6. C-reactive protein

- Daniel Amen

topic: Keys, Blood, Numbers, Thyroid, Blood Sugar

If you inhale a millionth of a gram of plutonium, the surrounding cells receive a very, very high dose. Most die within that area, because it's an alpha emitter. The cells on the periphery remain viable. They mutate, and the regulatory genes are damaged. Years later, that person develops cancer. Now, that's true for radioactive iodine, that goes to the thyroid; cesium-137, that goes to the brain and muscles; strontium-90 goes to bone, causing bone cancer and leukemia.

- Helen Caldicott

source: "Prescription for Survival". A Debate on the Future of Nuclear Energy Between Anti-Coal Advocate George Monbiot and Anti-Nuclear Activist Dr. Helen Caldicott, www.democracynow.org. March 30, 2011.

topic: Cancer, Cells, Years, Inhale, Iodine

As stated before, hypothyroidism may cause premature or delayed puberty. The majority of normal and hypothyroid females begin their cycle at ages 12 or 13. However, a growing number of those with hypothyroidism start their cycle years earlier or begin their periods at age 15 or later. Premature or delayed puberty in males is also becoming more common.

- Mark Starr

topic: Years, Pms, Numbers, Hypothyroidism, Premature

Impairment of fertility in both men and women because of hypothyroidism is firmly entrenched in medical literature...Miscarriage and fertility problems are a red flag for hypothyroidism.

- Mark Starr

topic: Miscarriage, Men, Pms, Hypothyroidism, Red Flags

My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour - calm, quiet and introspective - did something to soothe my shattered self.

- Yann Martel

source: Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.14, Canongate Books

topic: Self, Sloth, Three, Zoology, Glands

I also think pronunciation of a foreign tongue could be better taught than by demanding from the pupil those internal acrobatic feats that are generally impossible and always useless. This is the sort of instruction one receives : “Press your tonsils against the underside of your larynx. Then with the convex part of the septum curved upwards so as almost — but not quite — to touch the uvula, try with the tip of your tongue to reach your thyroid. Take a deep breath, and compress your glottis. Now without opening your lips say "Garoo".' And when you have done it they are not satisfied.

- Jerome K. Jerome

source: "The Selected Work of Jerome K. Jerome".

topic: Thinking, Trying, Done, Pronunciation, Take A Deep Breath