Here’s why Hashimoto’s is the perfect disease for people like me: it causes rapid weight gain (I put on 33 pounds in four weeks); your hair falls out in clumps; your nails peel off; you lose the outer third of your eyebrows (oddly); big angry pimples festoon your face; there’s extreme sweating, stomach bloating, water retention, constipation, sluggishness and an inability to exercise (when you try to exercise, all of the above symptoms worsen); you develop debilitating indecisiveness (this has been linked to faulty thyroid function); this weird thing happens where foundation turns white on
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