Everyone keeps sending around this article about the sketchy doctor who is diagnosing a shockingly high number of elite runners with hypothyroidism, which may be helping them to win lots of medals. But, I just keep thinking ‘OH NO, what if I really have that and now no one will believe me?!’ One of my major fears is also being wrongly convicted for a crime I didn’t commit.
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Right!? I’ve been on thyroid meds for ~12 years now. I’m gonna call it justified… Given that my thyroid was radiated when I went through radiation therapy for Hodgkins Disease in 1999 and it no longer works at all. I swear to God I don’t consider this cheating. At all.
I think if you go through radiation therapy, you totally get a hall pass.
Kelly O'Mara 
Right!? I’ve been on thyroid meds for ~12 years now. I’m gonna call it justified… Given that my thyroid was radiated when I went through radiation therapy for Hodgkins Disease in 1999 and it no longer works at all. I swear to God I don’t consider this cheating. At all.
I think if you go through radiation therapy, you totally get a hall pass.