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Psy 410 Week 1 Essay

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Hello Class,
My grandmother suffered with thyroid and use to always ask me if I had thyroids. I remember a time when she told me to get a quarter and some iodine to put on my stomach above my navel. She told me if it changed colors that I had thyroids. Also, because I felt so drained most of the time and would swell in my body often, she had me to consult with my physician about the matter. My grandmother was a very intelligent woman that was very health conscience about herself and her family.
Now looking back at it all she may have been trying to diagnose me for goiters. A goiter is swelling and may be harmful. Goiters illustrate an iodine deficiency, and may also connect to Hashimoto’s thyroiditis a thyroid inflammation. http://www.webmd.com/women/picture-of-the-thyroid …show more content…

This may be because they are suffering with underactive thyroid or hypothyroidism. http://www.yourhormones.info/hormones/thyroid_stimulating_hormone.aspx I believe my grandmother suffered with the underactive/ hypothyroidism thyroid, because she was sluggish, a heavy set woman in her later years and always felt like she was freezing even in the middle of the summer time. Nevertheless, she believed in vitamins and took them daily. I cannot say what they were, but feel like maybe her thyroid problem was the reason to her suffering with stage 5 breast cancer. If she would have known that they had something to regulate thyroid back to normal, I am sure she would have tried to get

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