A open forum for discussion of thyroid disease, including hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism, thyroid nodules, cancer, weight loss for thyroid patients, alternative therapies and treatments, alternative thyroid drugs, and more.

The forum was founded, and is lightly moderated by, Mary Shomon, a patient advocate, thyroid patient, and author of numerous thyroid bestsellers. Mary's books include the New York Times best-seller, "The Thyroid Diet" (http://www.thyroid-info.com/dietbook.htm ), Amazon best-seller "Living Well With Hypothyroidism, (http://www.thyroid-info.com/book.htm ), "Living Well With Graves' Disease and Hyperthyroidism (http://www.thyroid-info.com/graves ), The Thyroid Hormone Breakthrough (http://www.thyroidbreakthrough.com ), and other books. Mary is editor of the subscription print newsletter on thyroid disease called "Sticking Out Our Necks" (http://www.thyroid-info.com/subscribe.htm ) as well as its related free email edition (http://www.thyroid-info.com/newsletters.htm ). Since 1997, Mary has also been Thyroid Guide for the popular Thyroid Disease site at About.com, located at http://thyroid.about.com , and part of the New York Times Company.

This list encourages OPEN discussion about thyroid problems, and is NOT SPONSORED by any pharmaceutical manufacturers or doctors.

(We ask that you refrain from spam, multilevel marketing, marketing pitches, marketing of other sites and forums, unconstructive attacks and criticism, trolling, profanity, and recommendations that people buy medications without prescriptions or change their treatment approaches without a doctor's oversight.