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2014 ATA Therapy guidelines: 3. Desiccated thyroid

May 14th, 2019thyroidpatientsca1 Comment

This post continues my paraphrase of Jonklaas et al’s 2014 “Guidelines for the Treatment of Hypothyroidism: Prepared by the American Thyroid Association Task Force on Thyroid Hormone Replacement.” Posts in this series: 2014 ATA Thyroid therapy guidelines: 1. Levothyroxine 2014 ATA Thyroid therapy guidelines: 2. Ethics 2014 ATA Therapy guidelines: 3. Desiccated thyroid [this post] 2014 ATA Therapy guidelines: 4. Using Synthetic T3 2014 ATA therapy guidelines: 5. Research 6. [ not yet published; still in draft form] 7. [ not yet published; still in draft form] If we want to disagree with the American Thyroid Association’s prejudice against animal …

2014 ATA Thyroid therapy guidelines: 2. Ethics

May 13th, 2019thyroidpatientsca0 Comments

Here I move on to part 2 of my summary of ATA thyroid therapy guidelines. Posts in this series: 2014 ATA Thyroid therapy guidelines: 1. Levothyroxine 2014 ATA Thyroid therapy guidelines: 2. Ethics [this post] 2014 ATA Therapy guidelines: 3. Desiccated thyroid 2014 ATA Therapy guidelines: 4. Using Synthetic T3 2014 ATA therapy guidelines: 5. Research 6. [ not yet published; still in draft form] 7. [ not yet published; still in draft form] In this instalment, I pick things up where they try to defend the ethics their own stance (Jonklaas et al, 2014). Their self-righteous, defensive and arrogant …

2014 ATA thyroid therapy guidelines: 1. Levothyroxine

May 12th, 2019thyroidpatientsca1 Comment

In this series of posts, I paraphrase a 2014 thyroid therapy guidelines document in a way that even the brain-fogged hypothyroid patient can understand more quickly and easily than reading the original version. Posts in this series: 2014 ATA Thyroid therapy guidelines: 1. Levothyroxine [this post] 2014 ATA Thyroid therapy guidelines: 2. Ethics 2014 ATA Therapy guidelines: 3. Desiccated thyroid 2014 ATA Therapy guidelines: 4. Using Synthetic T3 2014 ATA therapy guidelines: 5. Research 6. [ not yet published; still in draft form] 7. [ not yet published; still in draft form] MY SUMMARY’S AIMS AND METHODS Every thyroid patient …

Gisele’s thyroid therapy journey

April 30th, 2019thyroidpatientsca11 Comments

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 …

Biondi and Wartofsky’s 2014 dismissal of desiccated thyroid

March 1st, 2019thyroidpatientsca4 Comments

Bernadette Biondi and Leonard Wartofsky’s article in 2014 titled “Treatment with Thyroid Hormone” summarily dismisses the use of desiccated thyroid medication in thyroid therapy. Tracing the logic of their dismissal back to their citation, a 1980 research article, reveals a fallacious chain of argument based on a very thin foundation. This pathway of reasoning promotes mistaken assumptions and long-standing medical biases against this alternative mode of thyroid therapy. These biases are largely founded on the fear of the unknown and the unwillingness to carefully investigate the reasons why desiccated thyroid therapy can often yield no signs or symptoms of hyperthyroidism …