This guest post is authored by Gisele Gautreau, a Canadian thyroid patient who has given us permission to share her image and story. Gisele: For those questioning the plight of thyroid patients in this country, the following is my story: I’m in New Brunswick, and I was diagnosed with a thyroid autoimmune disease called Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis in 2014. I had not been feeling well for 8 years. My TSH was checked every year, the result would always fall within the accepted Canadian range, so I was considered “normal.” The last few years before diagnosis, I couldn’t exercise anymore. I had …
Category: Patients’ stories
Calling for Canadian thyroid patient stories
If anyone wants to share their Canadian thyroid therapy struggle publicly on the Thyroidpatients.ca website and its Facebook and/or Twitter feeds, please either send it to our website’s contact form at https://thyroidpatients.ca/contact/ OR send it to us via FB private message. We will edit and post it as time permits. This way our voices can be amplified and we might make real change as our petition now heads to its reading in parliament. No doctors names please, but make it as factual, vivid and as detailed as you can be. Be prepared, we / you might get the attention of …