In the spring of 2004, I was diagnosed with Grave's Disease - an autoimmune disease characterized by hyperthyroidism. I'd felt unwell for years before and it had finally come to a point. I was diagnosed as if by accident after having given up on finding a cause for my exhaustion, sleeplessness, tremors and general sense of poor well-being. Indeed, routine blood work at a health fair yielded a result for TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone) that was virtually nonexistent. Of course, TSH is a poor marker of thyroid health so you can imagine just how sick I was.
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