Thyroid & Endocrine

Each ebook in this collection holds 50 first-person accounts of one condition or treatment. The set covers an underactive thyroid and the exhaustion, cold and weight changes that travel with it; an overactive thyroid, a racing heart and heat that will not lift; the awkward middle ground of subclinical results, where the numbers look borderline and the symptoms do not; and thyroid nodules found by chance on a scan.

Beyond the thyroid there are books on thyroid eye disease, on life after a thyroidectomy and the long work of settling replacement doses, on hyperparathyroidism and the calcium levels that finally explain years of vague symptoms, on pituitary tumours, on Cushing's syndrome, and on the fatigue many people describe as adrenal. A theme runs through all of them: being told the results are normal while feeling anything but, and what eventually moved things forward. These are personal accounts, written to keep you company through the testing and the waiting. Every book downloads at once as a PDF and an EPUB.

Where to start

• Thyroid Turnaround: Hypothyroidism Treatment Stories — the usual first stop after diagnosis.
• Cooling Down: Hyperthyroidism Recovery Stories — for a racing, overheated body.
• The Gray Zone: Subclinical Hypothyroidism Stories — borderline results, real symptoms.
• Nodule News: Thyroid Nodule Treatment Stories — for anyone waiting on a scan result.
• Minus a Thyroid: Thyroidectomy Recovery Stories — surgery and the months after it.
• Master Gland: Pituitary Tumor Treatment Stories — a rarer diagnosis, plainly told.