Brain fog in hypothyroidism: recovery or dementia?

  1. Audhild Løhre, professor emerita12
  1. 1Department of Teacher Education, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
  2. 2Patient author
  1. audhild.lohre{at}ntnu.no

Papautsky describes developing brain fog on starting chemotherapy for breast cancer.1 Brain fog affected my life both before and after diagnosis of hypothyroidism, as is typically seen in the disease.2 I got the diagnosis in 1989, at the age of 38, and my doctor prescribed levothyroxine. Looking back, I see that the disease and symptoms started six or more years earlier, after having children.

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