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I want to ask everyone the following question: How many of You have direct relatives(mother, father) with Thyroid problems?

Thanks in advance for the replies.

Me! My mum has hashimotos. Why don't u run a poll....
No close relative with autoimmune disease
Close relative with autoimmune thyroid disease (hashimotos)
Relative with other autoimmune disease

No.

One thyroid problem and one MS diagnosis in my grandparents generation. Not the same person.

Yes - My mom has some mysterious issue where her TSH has varied between .1 and 7.5

nothing here re thyroid.

none that I know of.

Sister diagnosed with Hypo seven years

My daughter has hypothyroidism and takes Synthroid; she is not diagnosed with "MS."
My mother has hypothyroidism and takes Synthroid; she was never diagnosed with "MS."
I do not have any thyroid problems but do have diagnosed "MS."

Just for thought... Dr. Sclafani presented a case on his thread about how blocked IJV valves caused venous blood to find its way down a patient's thyroid veins thereby engorging the thyroid and making it very large, just like my daughter's thyroid. She has not been tested--neither by DUS nor PTA--for CCSVI. After PTA, Dr. Sclafani's patient's thyroid returned to normal size.

Thank you all. I've asked this question with a reason.

And now i am wondering the following: Is MS caused by immune system attacking the myelin, or the myelin cannot be regenerated or even produced by the oligodendrocytes. The thyroid hormone is responsible for the differentiation of those brain cells.

http://endo.endojournals.org/content/145/11/5013.full

There is more and more information over the web.