Living with Hypothyroidism

Treatment can help improve your symptoms of hypothyroidism by replacing the specific hormone your thyroid makes called thyroxine. Helping to keep your thyroid in balance usually means taking replacement medicine for the rest of your life.

Adjusting to lifetime treatment can be a challenge

Maybe you did not have any symptoms before you were diagnosed with hypothyroidism. If so, it may be especially hard to accept the fact that you have to take medicine every day for life even though you feel fine. You may not have been given much information about how to take your medicine. It may also be hard to understand the importance of taking your medicine the right way every day.

This section can help you explore how you may feel about living with hypothyroidism. Here you can learn:

It may help to know that you are not alone.

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