Graves' Disease and Pregnancy: What You Need to Know
If you're pregnant and have Graves' disease, discuss treatments and risks with your healthcare provider. Learn more about Graves' disease...
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What Is Hungry Bone Syndrome?
Hungry bone syndrome is a rare condition that causes prolonged and significantly low calcium levels, low magnesium, and elevated phosphorus levels....
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Immune System Disorders and Diseases
Learn about similarities and differences between an immune system disorder, an overactive immune system, and autoimmune disease. Your immune system...
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What Is Hypergonadotropic Hypogonadism?
Hypergonadotropic hypogonadism occurs when the body doesn’t produce enough sex hormones, such as estrogen and testosterone. Hypergonadotropic...
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Living With Hypoparathyroidism
Hypoparathyroidism is a lifelong condition. Living and coping with it requires having the right information, support, and resources....
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How Hypoparathyroidism Is Treated
Hypoparathyroidism is treatable and manageable. Treatment includes home remedies and lifestyle changes, over-the-counter therapies, and medication....
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Causes and Risk Factors of Hypoparathyroidism
The most common cause of hypoparathyroidism is injury or accidental removal of one or more of the four parathyroid glands, but that's not the...
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How Hypogonadism Is Treated
Hypogonadism leads to a range of health problems. Treatment approaches include hormone replacement therapy, surgery, and lifestyle changes....
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How Hypogonadism Is Diagnosed
Hypogonadism is characterized by low levels of sex hormones. Diagnosis involves physical examination, blood tests, and imaging, among other methods....
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Symptoms of Hypogonadism
Symptoms of hypogonadism include hot flashes and mood changes in women, as well as reduced libido, muscle loss, and breast enlargement in men. People...
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Symptoms of Hypoparathyroidism
Symptoms of hypoparathyroidism might include fatigue, intermittent muscle spasms (tetany), skin, hair, and nail changes, seizures, and brain fog....
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How Hypoparathyroidism Is Diagnosed
Learn how hypoparathyroidism is diagnosed, including recognizing the signs and symptoms, physical examination, lab work, imaging, and more....
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Talking to Your Partner When You Struggle with Hypogonadism
Hypogonadism can seriously impact quality of life as well as sexual function. If you have it, it’s important to have a conversation with your...
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Living Well with Hypogonadism
Hypogonadism, insufficient production of sex hormones, is often chronic. Coping strategies include counseling, support groups, and lifestyle changes....
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What Is Graves’ Dermopathy?
Graves’ dermopathy, or pretibial myxedema, is a skin condition related to autoimmune thyroid disease. See how to recognize and treat it. Graves’...
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Causes and Risk Factors of Hypogonadism
Hypogonadism, caused by too little sex hormone in the body, can arise due to age, surgery, cancer treatments, and medications, among other causes....
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Frozen Shoulder and Thyroid Disease
Frozen shoulder, also called adhesive capsulitis, causes pain and mobility problems in the shoulder and is common in people with thyroid disease. It...
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Conditions Related to Thyroid Disease
Endocrine autoimmune disorders are varied and tricky, and thyroid disease is just one of them. Learn more about these similar, but not equal...
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An Overview of Lethargy and Possible Causes
Lethargy is a symptom described as unrelenting exhaustion. Learn more about the different conditions that cause lethargy. Lethargy is not a symptom...
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The Symptoms, Causes, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Hashitoxicosis
Learn about hashitoxicosis (Htx), a common hyperthyroid stage at the onset of Hashimoto’s disease. Hashitoxicosis (Htx) is a common stage in...
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Candida (Yeast) Infections and Autoimmune Thyroid Disease
Read about the potential link between autoimmune thyroid disease and infection with Candida, or yeast, and what this may mean for your health. Given...
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How the Immune System Works
From T-cells to neutrophils, MHC to chemokines, the complex processes of your immune system are constantly working to protect you from infection....
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Understanding Muscle Pain and Weakness in Thyroid Disease
Read about the link between muscle weakness and pain and thyroid disease, and how your muscle symptoms can be effectively treated. Muscle disease, or...
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The Celiac and Autoimmune Thyroid Disease Connection
There's a relationship between autoimmune thyroid disease and celiac disease, including commonalities like similar symptoms and shared genes....
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An Overview of Multiple Endocrine Neoplasias
Multiple endocrine neoplasias are a group of diseases characterized by the presence of tumors on several endocrine glands at once. Multiple endocrine...
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An Overview of Endocrine Issues and Autoimmune Diseases
Endocrine autoimmune disorders are varied and tricky to diagnose, and thyroid disease is just one of them. Learn more about these similar, but not...
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The Connection Between Fibromyalgia and Thyroid Disease
The connection between fibromyalgia and thyroid disease has been noted in recent years. Learn about the commonalities, their influences, and more....
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Symptoms of Autoimmune Diseases
Symptoms of autoimmune diseases can include fatigue, aching joints and muscles, inflammation, hair loss, and rashes. Learn more about autoimmunity....
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