The diary of a hyperthyroid girl for thyroid awareness month

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by Lauren Shortnacy

It wasn’t until a doctor told me I should be in a coma that I really and truly began to take my thyroid disorder seriously. The month of January is thyroid disease awareness month.
 I was 18 and a senior in high school when I learned my thyroid was five times larger than it was suppose to be. Honestly, I just thought I was going emotionally crazy, but my body was trying to tell me otherwise. 
According to http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/thyroiddiseases.html, a thyroid is a butterfly-shaped gland that can be found in one’s neck, just above the collarbone. It is one of the endocrine glands, which makes hormones. Thyroid hormones control the rate of many activities in one’s body. These include how fast calories can burn, how fast the heart beats and a lot of emotional traits. There are six different problems that are part of the thyroid disease diagnosis.
 
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