Camilla Luddington is still getting used to her new normal after being diagnosed with Hashimoto’s disease earlier this year.
“It’s still new to me,” the Grey’s Anatomy star told People in an interview published on Saturday, October 4. “I got the diagnosis at the beginning of summer, so I’m fresh into this journey. I am on Levothyroxine, which is a thyroid medicine, and I can tell you that a lot of things have changed.”
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