Fifteen years ago, I was diagnosed with Hashimoto's Disease, which is an autoimmune disorder that affects your thyroid function.  It affects every aspect of my body because your thyroid controls all body processes.  Early on the first few symptoms were severe weight gain and then weight loss and then weight gain again (up to 80lbs in a month), my hair would fall out, my skin would dry up, and I'd have pregnancy mask-like hormonal skin changes. 

The skin changes were the worst.  Not…