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font-size: 10px;">Associated Press</div><br/></div> <br/><br style="clear: both;"><br/><!--dd class="story-pic-bigger"><a href="http://media.buffalonews.com/smedia/2010/01/26/06/bn-20100126-C005-theupsanddownso-230054-MI0001.standalone.prod_affiliate.50.jpg" rel="lightbox[group]" title="Associated Press<br />Oprah Winfrey’s battle with thyroid disease has been well publicized.">Click to view a larger picture</a></dd--><br/><br/><br/></dt><h1>The ups and downs of thyroid disease</h1><br/><br/><br/><div class="byline">By Jessica Yadegaran</div> <div class="attributionline">McCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS</div><br/><div class="dateline-comments"><br/>Updated: January 26, 2010, 6:57 am / <span id="dateline-comment-count"><a rel="nofollow" href="#comment">1 comment </a></span><br>Published: January 26, 2010, 12:30 am</div><br/><br/><!--Updated: 01/26/10 6:57 AM --><br/><!--startclickprintexclude--><br/><br/><!-- Start /PubSys/Story/MediaBox/MediaBox.comp --><br/><div class="mediabox"><br/><br/><br/> <!-- begin story-tools --><br/><br/> <div class="story-tools"><br/> <h4><br/> Story tools:<br/> </h4><br/> <br/> <ul id="toolbox"><br/> <li id="tool-increasetype"><img style="padding-right: 8px;" src="http://media.buffalonews.com/static/images/shared/text-bigger.gif"><a rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" href="#">Larger</a></li><br/> <li id="tool-decreasetype"><img style="padding-right: 8px;" src="http://media.buffalonews.com/static/images/shared/text-smaller.gif"><a rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" href="#">Smaller</a></li><br/> <li id="tool-sav"><img style="padding-right: 8px;" src="http://media.buffalonews.com/static/images/shared/save.gif"><a rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" href="#">Save</a></li><br/><br/> <li id="tool-pri"><img style="padding-right: 8px;" src="http://media.buffalonews.com/static/images/shared/print.gif"><a rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" href="/cgi-bin/print_this.cgi" target="_blank">Print</a></li><br/> <li id="tool-ema"><img style="padding-right: 8px;" src="http://media.buffalonews.com/static/images/shared/mail.gif"><a rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" href="http://account.mybuffalo.com/media/emailthis.php?url=http:%2f%2fwww.buffalonews.com%2f2010%2f01%2f26%2f935450%2fthe-ups-and-downs-of-thyroid-disease.html&headline=The%20ups%20and%20downs%20of%20thyroid%20disease&storyId=935450" target="_blank">Email</a></li><br/><br/> <li><img style="padding-right: 8px;" src="http://media.buffalonews.com/static/images/shared/alerts.gif"><a rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" href="http://www.buffalonews.com/alerts/">Get Alerts</a></li><br/> <li><img style="padding-right: 8px;" src="http://media.buffalonews.com/static/images/shared/nsletter.gif"><a rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" href="http://account.mybuffalo.com/signup">Newsletters</a> <span style="font-size: 10px; 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Second to her intolerance for heat was the anxiety, which caused her heart to beat 200 times a minute and sent her to the emergency room a dozen times in six months. </p><p>But Gayden, then 28 and newly married, had nothing to feel anxious about. Still, doctors prescribed anxiety medication for what she described as an overwhelming sense of terror. Had they noted her family history of thyroid disease, the ER staffers may have called an endocrinologist to check Gayden’s TSH, or thyroid stimulating hormone, to see if it was too high. </p><p>The thyroid gland, located in the neck just below the larynx, is the body’s metabolism m</p></div></div>