Let’s get to know what many of us thyroid patients have in common, and what makes each of us unique. Are you an autoimmune thyroid disease (AITD) patient? If so, what kind of autoimmune thyroid disease do you have? How do you know for sure? I ask this final question because very few of us know our complete set of thyroid antibodies. Most of us are taught to think that “Hashimoto’s” and “Graves” are two mutually exclusive diseases, but they’re not that simple and pure. Most of our doctors are trained to focus on diagnosing and normalizing our biochemistry. They …