Category: Celebrity Health

Celebrities With Hashimotos Disease. Named after Japanese doctor Hakaru Hashimoto who first described it, Hashimoto’s disease affects about 1 to 1.5 in 1000 people. According to the Mayo Clinic, it is the most common cause of hypothyroidism in the United States. It is found among children and adults as well as men and women but it most often occurs in women between 30 to 60 years old.

The symptoms of Hashimoto’s disease — it is also known as Hashimoto’s thyroiditis or chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis — are as follows: Continue reading “Celebrities With Hashimotos Disease: Gina Rodriguez, Kim Katrall”

Celebrities With Graves Disease. We continue blogging about celebrities focusing this time on famous people who are living with Graves Disease, a disorder in the immune system which results in the overproduction of thyroid hormones.

It’s symptoms include the following:

• hyperactivity
• mood swings – such as anxiety, irritability and nervousness
• insomnia
• feeling tired all the time (fatigue)
• muscle weakness
• needing to pass stools or urine more frequently
• excess fats in your stools – which can make them greasy and difficult to flush down the toilet (steatorrhoea)
• sensitivity to heat and excess sweating
• unexplained or unexpected weight loss – despite having an increased appetite (though in a small number of cases, the increase in appetite can lead to weight gain)
• very infrequent or light periods, or periods stopping altogether
• infertility
• loss of interest in sex, reduced libido, or erectile dysfunction

Here’s our list of celebrities with Graves disease:

Continue reading “Celebrities With Graves Disease: Survivors, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment”

Here’s a list of famous people or celebrities with Crohn’s disease. Check out what they are saying about how they were diagnosed, how they are living with the disease, and their hopes and plans for the future.

Sam Faiers, British celebrity (via Cosmopolitan Magazine): It sounds crazy to hear myself say this, but I absolutely embrace my Crohn’s disease. It has caused me agonising pain, made me cry, stopped me from eating, drinking and clubbing, and it has slimmed down my once curvy body. But it has also changed my life and it’s changed me. It’s been a rough journey, and it is most definitely not over, but now I can see that a lot of the changes are good.

(via express.co.uk): Since I have started speaking about it a lot of young girls have had tests and some of them have discovered they have Crohn’s and have caught it before a flare-up.

Continue reading “Celebrities With Crohn’s Disease: 2015 List”