I’m Mike Oliver, and my wife Maria suffers from a rare and severe form of Peripheral Resistance to Thyroid Hormone and lives in constant hypothyroid state. She has no medical care. Ashley was very kind to let us post some information on her blog about Maria’s condition and our family’s struggle to cure her disease.
My wife was a wonderful artist and a successful designer but now this disease has stripped her of the ability to do all the things she loved. Her illness affects peripheral tissues, which are resistant to Thyroid Hormone, a hormone we need to live; without it, our body functions slow down and organs malfunction; if left untreated, hypothyroidism can cause a slew of diseases like diabetes, cancer and others; it can even kill. Maria has been battling it for the last 6 years, and although she is taking medication, her illness is getting progressively worse day after day. Continue reading











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Ashley resides in beautiful British Columbia with her husband, son and two dogs. She was diagnosed with juvenile hypothyroidism at the age of eight and then re-diagnosed with a thyroid conversion problem at the age of thirteen. In 2008 she was finally given a proper name for her illness; she is hypothyroid with partial peripheral thyroid hormone resistance. Searching for Health is Ashley's forum for sharing information on thyroid resistance and empowering chronically ill individuals to live their healthiest life.