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Today I got the results from Cisco's annual health check. And while his heart is still strong (he always had have the heart of an athlete) and the liver and kidney results are excellent he does have an underactive thyroid. There's nothing to worry about that. He's getting thyroxine now and that's it.
I know that we will slowly have to deal with health issues, he's 11.5 years old. Not getting younger...sigh....but for now he's still in a super condition.
Way to go, sugar bear! ♥♥♥
Some shots of Cisco in action at the beach are blogged now.
2019 wasn't the kindest year to me. I've had a lot of health problems and struggle with poor mobility which affects my photography.
These little tablets help me so much and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I take thyroxine for my underactive thyroid and citalopram for my mental health. It's just the same thing.
On the bright side I finally moved house and sorted out some financial issues. The new house works perfectly for me and I love it.
I did a lot of thinkinng about carrying on for another year - my eighth - but decided I'm not ready to stop yet.
I love this group and sharing people's journeys. So here's to 2020. I hope it's a wonderful year for everyone.
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Copyright © 2014 by Ian J MacDonald. Permission required for any use. All rights reserved
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These illustrations are meant to represent the elements of the periodic table. The drawings are influenced by the Art Deco friezes seen on buildings of the 1920s and 30s - deities were used to represent the essence of the ideas being represented; such as industries, scientific ideas, civic ideals etc...
While the Art Deco style is an influence I did not want to directly copy what has been already been done or hang slavishly onto examples of Art Deco. I am endeavoring to work in the style, imagining creating something new in that moment when Art Deco was current.
Each element is represented by a goddess embedded in a representational background. The deities are purposely done in a sketchy manner - opposite to the solid background - to represent the quantum mechanical nature of atoms and particles. In quantum mechanics particles have no meaning as solid defined units of matter but are statistical entities described by complex (literally and mathematically) wave functions that provide us with the probable positions and energies of particles and systems of particles - an unsettling prospect for many people.
I represent the essence of the elements by goddesses for several reasons. One, they are more interesting, complex, beautiful to draw than males. Secondly it is more challenging to represent the essence of the elements in a feminine rather than a male manner. Unfortunately, science and chemistry has been male dominated and as such so has the naming and descriptions of the elements. These are meant to somewhat challenge the viewer by juxtaposing the female essence with male dominance in science. It would be too simple and cliche to represent iron, for example, as a Mars-like God. Some of the elements are quite dangerous to living creatures and it is far more challenging to express that in a feminine manner.
I was asked if people would get past the nudity. The answer is "No". But that is OK. I want the beauty and vulnerability to attract attention. Science is after all quite beautiful if one takes the time to stop fighting the math and difficulties in understanding, and immerse themselves in it to appreciate just how weird and strange nature really is be - far beyond anything humans could come up with. The nudity somewhat represents the primal, elemental nature of the different atoms. Clothing, such as suit of armor for iron, is a distraction and again too simple and cliche.
But all in all the representation is not direct. Some influence comes from the elements' names - often from properties of the elements, literary references, where they were isolated, political rivalries, honors for discoverers etc... Some influence comes from the bulk properties of the elements such as harness, conductivity, toxicity, density, etc.... Some of the pieces are inspired by the major uses for the element - in industrial processes, in natural biological processes, nuclear reactions, nucleosynthesis, in everyday objects, and so on.
This is a work in progress and my second go at it. I have been tinkering at this for some time and I think these are closer to the vision in my head than what I have done earlier. Enjoy.
Today completely sucked from the outset; I was late to work because I got the dressing on my Implant-removal-incision wet while washing my hands (having had a bath with it carefully wrapped in clingfilm last night) so I had to remove it prematurely (it was meant to be on for another 24 hours) and I couldn't substitute it with anything one-handed so eventually gave up and had to pay for a cab to work in order to only be 5 minutes late - which of course still just means I looked late.
Then my day at work was horrible - partly hormones and perhaps general air of stress? Just wasn't a nice day and I felt completely bleak and miserable and almost walked out - except that my job is amazing and there's no legitimate reason for me to do that. I'm just tired and chemically disoriented and just started taking my thyroxine again after the Norovirus Outrage so it's fine to have the odd off day - I'm actually surprised there haven't been more, and that I was relatively capable at managing this one. But it still sucked.
That black floor is what the floor looks like in the giant stairwell that leads from the front door of our office/warehouse up to the first floor where the offices are. It really is an epic staircase. When the postmen and couriers bring returned orders, we store them in this vast diagonal corridor and unpack them there - which is what I was doing today when I spotted this Lucky Penny on the floor. I thought I should commemorate it as a tribute to the mind's Will to Happiness: even on a totally shit day with no real interest in superstition, I was happy to claim anything back as a sigil of triumph in the dark!
It feels appropriate that the floor mimics the lumpy blackness of my heart while the none-too-shiny penny makes a dull contrast yet still easily catches your eye - a lazy metaphor for the way my day felt bleak, but I was nevertheless drawn to the pockets of happiness; I think you know you're safe as long as you find this happening.
I picked up the penny but put it in my pocket with 1.2 billion other small artefacts and when I came to pay for a nutrition bar later I was short of a penny to use up all my crap change like coppers and fivepences - how serendipitous! You'd be forgiven for thinking; but of course I couldn't find it in a socially-appropriate duration of pocket-fumbling, and instead had to break a pound coin into subsequent pieces of crap change. Maybe I'll scatter them like breadcrumbs on my way to work tomorrow for other luckless people who woke up wetting their bandages to find as talismans.
It was ok, the bar tasted ok, I didn't dwell too long on the downside - just long enough to commit it to my eternal memory.
Seeing as things couldn't really get much worse in the carefully balanced darkness of my mind I decided to go straight from work to the huge supermarket near my house and brave the evening misery-crowds. It turned out to be a great idea! Everyone was really happy in a stoic kind of way. The cashier was really chatty to everyone he served - and I don't mean phatic conversation, I mean he really made an effort to have a proper conversation with each customer; the man in front of me paid with notes peeled off a roll of what looked like a thousand pounds - as you do.
I left miaowing the theme tune to Tetris - I often hum or sing when I'm tired or have imbibed too much coffee, sort of without noticing until someone else notices - and as I passed people they started humming their own songs so then I felt proud that I had brought music to the parking lot. I called a cab because I had quite a lot of heavy things, most of which were cat food, and while I was waiting I observed, as I had on arriving, the vast number of trolleys that were upended to indicate that they were out of use; their brake mechanisms had been activated by people trying to steal them.
Asking one of the attendants why so many trolleys had tried to escape, he explained with mild chagrin that they had lost the (one) tool they use to unlock the brake mechanisms, and thus they were about 300 trolleys down. Apparently they have ordered a new one and it will take two weeks to arrive, by which point he estimates they will have zero functioning trolleys. I thought that was reasonably entertaining and felt better some more.
My cab arrived speedily and was driven by a young man who seemed to be in his early twenties and was well-spoken, who talked again naturally to me like the cashier, not just passing time, but described his day as uneventful being an understatement and told me about his dad calling him for two hours about his (dad's) wife leaving him; the driver reckoned it had a lot to do with her being 22 years younger than his dad, and we had a nice discussion on the relative merits of dating outside your age bracket and the likelihood of success. She was just turning 30 which may also have been a factor; apparently a lot of people 'freak out' at turning 30, though I don't really understand why. Disappointed expectations perhaps? Therein lies the benefit of a good education I suppose.
I've achieved pretty much nothing tangible with my life but I still think I've accomplished mountains and I'm very happy with who and where I am; I really can't imagine that will change this time next year, but let's put that on record just in case!
Ahhh crap! I'm losing my eye lashes in chunks again. The only thing I can figure is that this is due to my slight "sub-subclinical" hypothyroidism. Basically if I weren't on the baby track I wouldn't even need to treat this level of hypothyroidism. Because I had such fertility problems it was a good idea to take thyroxine. So I did and the doctor said my levels were great.
Anyhow I read somewhere that hypothyroidism could cause this. Otherwise I have no explanation.
My photos are going on hiatus for 5 days while we travel to Boston. Expect new pictures from new locales soon.
cross section: human thyroid gland
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hematoxylin eosin stain
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cross section: human thyroid gland
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cross section: human thyroid gland
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cross section: human thyroid gland
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Not feeling great today (thankfully my day off each week - I'm sure that must make the week somehow easier; I do like being out of sync with externally-imposed paces and timescales) so had a visit to my GP this morning and gathered up my regular prescriptions. I've had a few discussions with people about medicating mental health recently so thought this might make a good subject for a post!
When I was 15 I was diagnosed with depression (later bipolar disorder) and had to make some decisions about what to do with this information and how to cope with this debilitating way of life. As an impressionable youngster there was one rule foremost in my mind: no drugs!! I was having enough of an existential crisis as it was without throwing the nature of my identity and reality into doubt by suggesting that by chemically altering myself I could think truer thoughts!
I was fairly certain that, although I felt completely dysfunctionally terrible a lot of the time, my thoughts were the result of clear perception and true rationalisation. As such, the idea of handing them over to some pharma company and asking them to brainwash me felt tantamount to injecting myself with Prozium! Why would anyone voluntarily submit to that?? I heard horror stories about Lithium, the then-drug of choice for treating bipolar, and I couldn't bear the notion of submitting myself to such atrocities!
Instead, I saw GPs, therapists, psychiatrists, a homeopath, an acupuncturist, religious leaders; I tried changing my fashion style, I took up different sports, I changed schools. All of these changes and explorations I'm certain helped me develop into the person I am now, and regular change and variety of lifestyle certainly helped me to avoid getting stuck in an identity rut as 'a depressed person'; but ultimately none of these actions helped me overcome the underlying problem.
It only took one term into my university life for me to crack; I had developed somniphobic tendencies and could only sleep in the day with loud music on and my computer on dressed to go out; in effect, I had to pretend I wasn't about to go to sleep! I got so exhausted that I went to my GP asking for sleeping pills, and she told me that while she wasn't prepared to give me sleeping pills, she could prescribe me Prozac (fluoxetine) and that would probably make me sleep anyway. Having reached this point of too many stresses piling up, I finally agreed.
Now it turns out that Prozac just happens to be one of the worst drugs I could have taken, but that's not the point; the point is that I 'broke the seal'; I spent a year trying out prescription medication to combat the chaos in my head, and while it was a really destructive thing for me at the time, it did show me that you can balance things a little bit that way - it certainly helped me sleep - in fact I lost my part-time job because I couldn't get up in the morning for a fortnight!
Ten years later I've tried out several rounds of SSRI prescriptions. I'm not resistant like I used to be - not least because I found out of course that the real problem was that I needed Levothyroxine medication daily, so if I have to take that every day for the rest of my days, what's really so different about taking SSRIs? Thyroxine affects my mood and thought patterns just as profoundly; in fact I feel its absence far more noticeably. But having experienced fragments of peaceful living, bereft of the brain tumult and dramatic despair and blank apathy that have dogged my days in the past, there's just no difficulty choosing these days - I start a course of anti-depressants the second I can feel the cold fingers creeping into my brain!
I don't usually take them for more than 4-6 months at a time, but I am more than happy to take them now; I feel like I don't have the time anymore to want to 'beat' something on my own! As far as I'm concerned the battle is a chemical one and needn't be fought in my mind. If I've got something that works, and I'm used to predicting my behaviour, then it's just a perfect solution for me! Sure there are side effects to most things, but they do pass after a few weeks; and actually, Sertraline is one of the most benign things I've tried, though this is a low dose so perhaps it is more invasive in higher dosage?
I used to also get problems with psychosomatic vomiting - which started at the same time as the sleep problems at university and never really left! However, since meeting Tom my incidence of nausea has radically decreased, so maybe there IS a cure! For the times when there isn't, Motilium (domperidone) will sort you out - you can buy this OTC in pharmacies but it's pretty poor value; I think you can only buy 2 packs of 6 pills at a time or something, because they don't want you using it to mask symptoms I would imagine.
StilNoct (Zolpidem Tartrate) is my ill-advised love; an instant hit to send me to sleep with a rosy glow in the morning! It's too addictive to take long term but like codeine-based painkillers, when you really need it (like now, for me!) it's just the thing to send you to sleep without too much brain-clattering for hours on end! Otherwise I just use Benedryl.
I still suck at remembering to take paracetamol or ibuprofen though. I'm not a huge fan of taking pills if you can get away with not doing; but I think when it comes to mental health concerns, it's just not that big a deal. Life is much better when you feel like you're in the right state of mind to live it!
Today I have been getting in the right state of mind with the aid of the completely amazing Katzenjammer (thanks to Clare's previous post about their brilliance) so I invite you to enjoy some sea-shanty gypsy folk with an electroswing bent in the form of A Bar in Amsterdam! (It reminds me of some of the music from Mysterious Cities of Gold!) They are my new favourite band. They even do a cover of Lands of Confusion (AND it's really good) so that's basically a winner right there!
The anatomy and physiology of the throat chakra aka Vishuddha are associated with those of the endocrine system.
The endocrine system is an interdependent system of endocrine glands, which secrete various different hormones in the bloodstream keeping the body function in an optimally balanced...
cross section: human thyroid gland
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hematoxylin eosin stain
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cross section: human thyroid gland
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cross section: human thyroid gland
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cross section: human thyroid gland
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cross section: human thyroid gland
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Bladder biopsy (86y/o female) - Cystoscopy: bluish discoloration near trigone.Needle-shaped crystals, blue in color, that polarize in blue and yellow. They are of undetermined origin. Probably exogenous mineral-type foreign bodies. Bottom photo: Polarization.
History was of recurrent UTI symptoms for 2 months, Urinalysis showed pyuria. Cultures negative., There is no history of stones in the kidney and/or bladder and the patient has not been catheterized . Medications are Glicazide, Metformin, edoxaban, statin, prednisolone, thyroxine, amitriptyline, bisoprolol, tramadol, frusemide, omeprazole, calcichew, alendronic acid.
Images contributed by Dr. Flavia Guzman - @flavia_guz
These tyrosine crystals can be seen in pleomorphic adenomas, a type of tumor typical of the salivary glands. Tyrosine is a non-essential amino acid that is part of many proteins and is a precursor to several neurotransmitters (eg, dopamine, norepinephrine, epinephrine), hormones (eg, thyroxine), and melanin.
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Hi George Willingham here, I'm a hypothyroidism sufferer, my doctor used to prescribe me thyroxine pills daily. If I didn't take them, I'd feel very tired and just feel like sleeping all day, so hard to get things done.
Then my niece Sharon told me about this online treatment program (Hypothyroidism Revolution), which gave me a 60 day step-by-step plan to follow. I also followed their hypothyroid Monday to Sunday meal plans (they have 1 for men and 1 for women) and avoided the list of foods with thyroid suppressing toxins (which I have previously been eating without knowing!).
I find the Thyroid Function Tracker Tool very useful in monitoring my thyroid function. These are all included in the treatment program, which also gave me Email Coaching on my hypothyroidism.
-I chose the online digital program because it was cheaper and I had instant access to it at only $97, but if you also want the hard copy of Hypothyroidism Revolution, they would also ship it to you for an extra fee.
They are so confident about this system that they are even offering a 60-day full money back guarantee.
So I thought what do I have to lose, I am still under follow up with my doctor but I feel so much more energetic now, and have even loss quite a few pounds over the past 3 months.
I highly recommend this program to any of you or your loved ones who are also suffering from hypothyroidism like me.
Learn more at www.curemydisorder.com/links/hypothyroid-diet-plan
14-01. Today was not the greatest of days. 2.5 years ago I was diagnosed with an overactive thyroid and after all that time of the doctor telling me that the medication he gave me should take it back to normal and "cure" me I found out today that it doesn't look likely. I was told that I now have to kill my thyroid off either by having it removed by surgery or by taking radioiodine. I will then be on thyroxine for the rest of my life. Joy. I wasn't very happy of being told this and then having to make a decision straight away so I have to go back in March (the day before my birthday, again - joy) and discuss it again then. I just can't wait to feel better again - not being constantly tired all the time will be the best thing.
16 Random Things About Life Without a Thyroid
1.I had a thyroidectomy late 2004. Doctors said the sub-sternal goiter was malignant, but pathology results were totally benign. ARGH!
2.I was put on Synthroid ($$$ pharmaceutical $$$), and told the little pill would replace everything the thyroid gland would do. Yeah, right.
3.After about 6 months, a severe depression, and a lot of research, I changed to Armour Thyroid (natural & cheap). Ahhhh!
4.I also added Iodine. The thyroid gland uses iodine from food to make two thyroid hormones, thyroxine (T4) and the more active triiodothyronine (T3). Iodine is also used by the thyroid hormones throughout the body. Now, that's not the skull & crossbones iodine that goes on boo-boo's, but rather iodine in the form of Iodoral or Lugol's, which are safe to digest.
5.I added Selenium, which helps conversion of T4 to T3.
6.I added Pantothenic Acid (B5) along with a good B-Complex, both which have numerous health-giving benefits for thyroid & adrenals. I also take over a gram of Vitamin C a day, for the same reasons.
7.It wasn’t enough. I was still miserable, and my doctor wouldn’t listen.
8.I joined a thyroidless group on Yahoo, and had my eyes opened!
9.I bless the moderator from the group; she has been my mentor.
10.Those durn adrenals were the real issue. Mine had been overly stressed by the surgery and poor post-treatment. AH HA!
11.On trusted advice, I went overseas to order hydrocortisone to heal the adrenals, to be taken at the low dose the body would naturally produce.
12.I took the hydrocortisone in small graduating doses, up to 25mg, which stabilized my temperature.
13.Then I went overseas to order more thyroid hormone, since my doctor wanted to keep me at an absurd low dose.
14.I take the thyroid pills sublingually, and worked up to a level that brought my now stable temperature up to normal, and so far, that’s twice what the doctor prescribed.
15.Some days are bad, when the body realizes it is not getting what it needs, when a dose needs to be adjusted… Like the day this was posted. But when the levels of glandular hormones are right, my world sings.
16.My advice to all – If a doctor wants to remove a gland as important as the thyroid – run screaming in the other direction and do your research! Oh, and don’t get two opinions, get three, or more!
2 generic Pepcid (the pink ones), 1/2 Meloxicam (the yellow), 1 Thyroxine (the blue one), 1/2 Metronidazole (the white half-pill), 1 Tramadol (round white), 1 Methocarbamol (oblong white), 2 Gabapentin (white capsules)--all on a thin slice of Land o' Frost turkey.
The Metronidazole is an every-other-day maintenance dose; the Meloxicam (and the Pepcid to protect his stomach against the Meloxicam) are once-a-day meds. The Thyroxine is twice-a-day. The Methocarbamol (muscle relaxer), Tramadol (pain reliever), and Gabapentin (nerve pain) are two or three times a day, depending on how Sam's doing, and there's room to increase the dosage on the Tramadol and/or Gabapentin, if necessary.
Despite all these pills--well, really, because of all these pills--he seems to feel fine. He's not groggy (he doesn't sleep any more than Silver does), and he plays in the living room, throwing a toy and pouncing on it and doing zoomies. The only bad thing is the way he breathes after he plays: his normal panting has turned into a harsh, raspy sound.
Oh, and he feels well enough to raid the kitchen trash can at least two or three times a day.
Glande thyroïde. Chez beaucoup de poissons osseux, cette glande consiste en de nombreuses petites unités, les follicules (1), localisées dans la région du pharynx, à proximité de l’aorte ventrale et des premières artères branchiales afférentes (2) qui en partent. Cette glande essentielle synthétise les hormones thyroïdiennes, telles la triiodothyronine (T3) et la tétraiodothyronine ou thyroxine (T4), toutes deux impliquées dans le métabolisme en général, tant glucidique que lipidique, et aussi dans des phénomènes physiologiques. 3 : cellules musculaires striées squelettiques en coupe transversale / 4 : pièce de cartilage hyalin / 5 : cavité branchiale
- Pour plus de détails ou précisions, voir « Atlas of Fish Histology » CRC Press, ou « Histologie illustrée du poisson » (QUAE) ou s'adresser à Franck Genten (fgenten@gmail.com)
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Thyroid gland. In most bony fish the thyroid gland is
found in the branchial region along the ventral aorta
and afferent branchial arteries (2). Thyroid
is usually not a compact gland and consists most of
the time of numerous scattered units called follicles
(1). The thyroid gland secretes two iodine-containing hormones : thyroxine (T4) and tri-iodothyronine (T3)
which play major roles in maintaining general tissue metabolism.. 3 : cross-sectioned skeletal muscle fibres (= rhabdomyocytes) / 4 : piece of hyaline cartilage / 5 : gill cavity
- For more information or details, see « Atlas of Fish Histology » CRC Press, or « Histologie illustrée du poisson » (QUAE) or contact Franck Genten (fgenten@gmail.com)
Overview
The thyroid is a portion of the endocrine technique. It is a modest, butterfly-formed gland at the foundation of the throat. It has a remaining lobe and a appropriate lobe. The center of the thyroid gland, the place the lobes fulfill, is named the isthmus. The thyroid can make the hormone thyroxine. This will help the human body control fat burning capacity, blood force, coronary heart fee, human body temperature, and fat.
Thyroid most cancers is the most widespread variety of endocrine most cancers. Analysis is on the increase in the United States. This may possibly due to the fact it has turn into less complicated to uncover the ailment. The Countrywide Most cancers Institute (NCI) estimates that far more than fifty six,000 new situations will be identified in 2012. Thyroid most cancers is also projected to lead to far more than one,seven-hundred fatalities. papillary-thyroidcancer.com/worried-about-cancer-check-ou...
"Axolotls exhibit a property called neoteny, meaning that they reach sexual maturity without undergoing metamorphosis. Many species within the axolotl's genus are either entirely neotenic or have neotenic populations. In the axolotl, metamorphic failure is caused by a lack of thyroid stimulating hormone, which is used to induce the thyroid to produce thyroxine in transforming salamanders. The genes responsible for neoteny in laboratory animals may have been identified; however, they are not linked in wild populations, suggesting artificial selection is the cause of complete neoteny in laboratory and pet axolotls."
Theodore came in for a recheck and to repeat his thyroid test. His levels were still low so his thyroxine dose was increased.
Today I had my 18 month post-radiation check up. All is well and frankengland continues to behave itself. Now I just take one of these little pills every day (Thyroxine, 50 ug).
Two years ago this was my life. I like my life now much better!
Hypothyroidism is really a condition by which the human body lacks sufficient thyroid hormone. Hypothyroidism can also be referred to as an underactive thyroid. It occurs once the thyroid gland doesn’t make enough thyroxine. Most of the apparent symptoms of hypothyroidism are extremely...
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Theodore came in for a recheck and to repeat his thyroid test. His levels were still low so his thyroxine dose was increased.
The long fight. Godspeed Myron.
Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma (ATC) is an aggressive form of cancer of the thyroid gland. It is one of the fastest growing tumors in humans. Unlike other forms of thyroid cancer (papillary, follicular, medullary, and their variants) it spreads quickly to other organs. It does not respond to the radioiodine therapy or TSH suppression with thyroxine used for some of the other types of thyroid cancer.
Only about 1% of thyroid cancers are of the anaplastic type.
(For scale, there are 5 people in the middle of the screen where the ice meets the greenery)
Thyroxine is a hormone the thyroid gland secretes into the bloodstream. Once in the bloodstream, thyroxine travels to the organs, like the liver and kidneys, where it is converted to its active form of triiodothyronine. Its chemical formula is C15H11I4NO4.
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Chest Pain
Marked
Hx: 10 y/o female, h/o hypothyroidism p/w CP x 1 day, cough 3-4 days, fever, tongue/lip numbness, no diaphoresis, meds: thyroxine
Iodine is an essential trace element; the thyroid hormones thyroxine and triiodotyronine contain iodine. In areas where there is little iodine in the diet—typically remote inland areas where no marine foods are eaten—iodine deficiency gives rise to goiter (so-called endemic goiter), as well as cretinism, which results in developmental delays and other health problems. While noting recent progress, The Lancet noted, "According to WHO, in 2007, nearly 2 billion individuals had insufficient iodine intake, a third being of school age. ... Thus iodine deficiency, as the single greatest preventable cause of mental retardation, is an important public-health problem.
Hypothyroidism is really a condition by which the human body lacks sufficient thyroid hormone. Hypothyroidism can also be referred to as an underactive thyroid. It occurs once the thyroid gland doesn’t make enough thyroxine. Most of the apparent symptoms of hypothyroidism are extremely...
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Thyroid UK 10th Anniversary Conference
Gilwell Park Conference Centre, Chingford, Essex
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Thyroid UK 10th Anniversary Conference
Gilwell Park Conference Centre, Chingford, Essex
Copyright Sabera Bham
Rosalind Pitt-Rivers worked in the Division of Biochemistry, and later as head of the Division of Chemistry, at NIMR between 1942 and 1972. Image via Wikimedia Commons, MRC National Institute for Medical Research w.wiki/362V