Posted by Bookgurl99 on June 24, 2002, at 14:35:21
Every day lately, I've been thinking about ways to kill myself.
I've never been like this before. But in the last 4 months, my cognition and memory have taken a sharp plunge. My symptoms? Trouble recognizing places I've been before, short-term memory virtually gone, concentration tremendously low, trouble finding words, slower CPU in general. My age? 26.
I've just been diagnosed with Hashimoto's thyroiditis, although I was being treated for low thyroid before. My fear is that I could have a rare comorbid condition, called Hashimoto's encephalopathy, which is where Hashi's antithyroid antibodies attack the brain instead of the thyroid. Most doctors have not heard of it, as there's only about 30 diagnosed cases in the U.S.
Don't get me wrong -- I'm not the kind of person who goes around thinking she has a rare illness. It's the symptoms that have caused me to consider this possibility.
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