I am sorry to hear your mother is suffering from her dry skin. I hope she is better now. Dry skin and other skin conditions are associated with hypothyroidism, including cases where the person's hypothyroidism is not being treated properly by their doctor. I suffered terrible dry skin, cracked heels before I was properly treated. I discovered the hard way that the lack of awareness in the medical community is pervasive. I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism following the birth of my first son in 2006 and experienced many of the symptoms you have listed. I trusted my doctors completely assuming they knew everything there was to know about this disease, especially when I became pregnant again in late 2008. How wrong I was! Under their care my TSH, the gold standard for measuring thyroid function, rose high above the safe range for pregnancy and I miscarried. I vowed to myself that I would research everything there was to know about hypothyroidism and warn other women. I fulfilled my vow and launched my blog Hypothyroidmom.com in memory of the baby I lost to hypothyroidism.
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I am sorry to hear your mother is suffering from her dry skin. I hope she is better now. Dry skin and other skin conditions are associated with hypothyroidism, including cases where the person's hypothyroidism is not being treated properly by their doctor. I suffered terrible dry skin, cracked heels before I was properly treated. I discovered the hard way that the lack of awareness in the medical community is pervasive. I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism following the birth of my first son in 2006 and experienced many of the symptoms you have listed. I trusted my doctors completely assuming they knew everything there was to know about this disease, especially when I became pregnant again in late 2008. How wrong I was! Under their care my TSH, the gold standard for measuring thyroid function, rose high above the safe range for pregnancy and I miscarried. I vowed to myself that I would research everything there was to know about hypothyroidism and warn other women. I fulfilled my vow and launched my blog Hypothyroidmom.com in memory of the baby I lost to hypothyroidism.
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