Difficult breathing. 1  dryness and peeling of skin. 2  fainting. 3  hives or itching. 4  redness of the skin. 5  swelling of the eyes, face, lips, or tongue. 6  tightness in the throat. 7  unusually warm skin.
The thyroid gland lies in the front of your neck in a position just below your Adamâs apple. It is made up of two lobes - the right lobe and the left lobe, each about the size of a plum cut in half - and these two lobes are joined by a small bridge of thyroid tissue called the isthmus.
190 Followers. A. The thyroid is a butterfly-shaped gland located in the front of the neck just below the Adam's apple. The gland wraps around the windpipe (trachea) and has a shape that is similar to a butterfly formed by two wings (lobes) and attached by a middle part (isthmus).