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Featuring our Thyroid Support Group moderators
In Thyroid Patients Canada, our growing organization now features two Facebook groups. In our new patients-only thyroid support group, Thyroid Patients Canada Support, we have a well-qualified team of SIX peer moderators. In our open-membership Thyroidpatients.ca Public Group, we have… Read More ›
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Thyroid peer support: Reasoning carefully
This post provides a tutorial for thyroid patients who want to analyze their own and each other’s health data without leading each other astray. Our Thyroid Patients Canada peer-led private support group, recently launched in April 2020, is built on… Read More ›
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Thyroid peer support: Sharing wisely and seeking evidence
We recently began a new support group on Facebook called “Thyroid Patients Canada Support.” It’s a private, patients-only group, with international members, peer-led by thyroid patients. As a patient, if you’d like to join, you must answer 2 questions and… Read More ›
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Welcome to our new Support Group
Patient-led online peer support is a lifeline for many thyroid patients, providing information and shared experience in a conversational, individualized, and timely manner. We as thyroid patient peer-leaders have decided to establish a new private Thyroid Patients Canada Support group… Read More ›
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Research: TSAb antibody and TSH
According to scientific research, the Graves’ TSAb stimulating antibody can directly manipulate the TSH—independently of thyroid hormone levels. For many decades, scientists have been very puzzled by the fact that “TSH can remain suppressed after treatment for Graves’ disease, even… Read More ›
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The Spectrum of Thyroid Autoimmunity
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… Read More ›
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Overlooked: How many Hashimoto’s patients with TSH-Receptor antibodies?
Graves’ disease patients routinely get tested for the TSH-Receptor antibody (TRAb) when they become hyperthyroid. Hashimoto’s patients with TRAb antibodies, on the other hand, are overlooked. Just how many of us are being overlooked in various countries? The thyroid-stimulating antibody… Read More ›
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Remissions and fluctuations in autoimmune thyroid disease: TRAb
Stories of complete remission from autoimmune hypothyroidism circulate on internet forums. Stories of significant fluctuations in thyroid status that allow one to reduce thyroid medication or require a major increase—these also circulate. I suspect most autoimmune hypothyroid and hyperthyroid patients… Read More ›