“Grey’s Anatomy” star Camilla Luddington
It makes chronic disease public
“Grey’s Anatomy” star Camilla Luddington has made her Hashimoto diagnosis known. So she noticed the symptoms.
“Grey’s Anatomy” star Camilla Luddington (41) is chronically ill. The actress has now spoken publicly about her diagnosis with the authimoto-thyroiditis autoimmune disease. She described her symptoms, the way to diagnose and deal with the disease.
This is how Camilla Luddington learned about her diagnosis
“About two and a half months ago I had a blood test,” said Luddington, who has been Dr. Jo Wilson in “Grey’s Anatomy” can be seen. The results of her doctor were mostly inconspicuous, “except for a little something”. Then she heard the term “autoimmune disease” – a diagnosis that shocked her: “I just thought: what the f ***?”, Luddington describes in the podcast.
Finally, it turned out that the 41-year-old suffers from Hashimoto thyroiditis-chronic inflammation of the thyroid gland, in which the immune system attacks the body’s own tissue. Women are particularly affected – about ten times more than men. The symptoms range from strong exhaustion to depressive moods to weight gain and concentration problems.
Hashimoto diagnosis was a relief
Despite the first uncertainty, Camilla Luddington finally felt relief after she received the diagnosis. “I felt like I finally got an answer to what I had felt for a long time.” She asked herself again and again whether she might be imagined her symptoms: “I have afraid. There was this moment when I thought: am I doing something myself?”
However, the symptoms were clear: extreme fatigue, freezing, concentration problems, depressive moods, dry skin and hair loss. “My husband Matt made fun of me because I slept with 40 blankets at night,” she says in the podcast. Regular training that otherwise gave her energy had to hire at some point.
As a mother of two young children, she initially considered her exhaustion to be a result of aging or family life. “I thought maybe it’s just the forties. I have two children, a lot to do, maybe it’s perimenopause.” But even enough sleep no longer helped – “At 11 a.m. it felt like I had drunk Benadryl – I was completely done.”
The disease is not curable, but is usually easy to treat with targeted hormone therapy. Luddington now takes medication and can be checked through a doctor every six weeks.
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Source: Stern
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