Comments on: Rare Disease Day -Hypothyroidism https://mywalkingpath.com/2017/02/28/rare-disease-day-hypothyroidism/ My Walking Path Tue, 28 Mar 2017 00:53:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 By: gbaugh https://mywalkingpath.com/2017/02/28/rare-disease-day-hypothyroidism/#comment-10192 Tue, 28 Mar 2017 00:53:16 +0000 http://mywalkingpath.com/?p=3385#comment-10192 In reply to Jan Morrison.

Hi, Jan! Thank you for stopping by and commenting I am very happy to hear your opinion.

Congenital hypothyroidism is a rare form, a person is born with it instead of having the thyroid deciding to stop working. I had a link in the post, I should have added it again at the end of the post. I am overjoyed that newborns are being tested for this disease.

Chronic diseases need to be talked about so everyone gets their facts right. I am truly sorry that both you and your sister have thyroid issues.

]]> By: Jan Morrison https://mywalkingpath.com/2017/02/28/rare-disease-day-hypothyroidism/#comment-10043 Wed, 01 Mar 2017 13:54:34 +0000 http://mywalkingpath.com/?p=3385#comment-10043 I totally appreciate your comments. I have hypothyroidism as well. So does my sister. It is, however, not a rare disease. The estimates vary, but approximately 10 million Americans have this common medical condition. I think what might be rare is the severity of your symptoms. Normally I wouldn’t pick like this, but I believe it is hard enough to have any chronic disease so we have to be factual when we talk about it.

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