thyroidpatientsca
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A short poem on our campaign in 2018
Thyroid Patients called out in 2018, “Optimize our therapy.” We climbed uphill despite fatigue, hearts full of hope. History has twisted biology, making TSH a tyrant and forcing T4 to work alone. But TSH and T4 are servants of the Queen of All Thyroid Hormones, mighty T3.
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In 2019, Together we can turn the tide
On New Year’s, let’s reflect on all our accomplishments this year with the petition and our social media. I offer two thoughts to boost our spirits for the journey ahead. You and me, as individual patients, are not alone in this struggle for better thyroid therapy. Patients who are currently doing well on thyroid therapy…
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Dosing by TSH results in FT3 inequity and health discrimination
The standard measure of thyroid gland health (the TSH normal range) is not a fair or accurate measure of thyroid hormone sufficiency in thyroid therapy. And the same meme, this time with MEN — since men have hypothyroidism too. In a 2015 article, Midgley et al (1) wrote “the effective TSH level derived in a…
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Shame on the UK for torturing thyroid patients who need T3
The UK is torturing its most vulnerable hypothyroid patients who need T3 in therapy. The medical profession is throwing away more than a century of safe, effective clinical use of T3 all over the globe. Nobody is caring enough to take the time to read the recent scientific research on the importance of maintaining upper-mid…
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MEMES: Against Table 2 in the “Choosing Wisely Canada” T3 & T4 toolkit
The “Choosing Wisely Canada” toolkit promoting limitation of Free T3 and Free T4 testing has been the food for some meme refutations. Choosing Wisely Canada. (n.d.). Toolkit: Less is More with T3 & T4. Retrieved December 30, 2018, from https://choosingwiselycanada.org/perspective/toolkit-t4-t3/ Recently, we’ve focused on their Table 2 which outlines situations they recommend NOT to order…