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"The Linguistic Etiologies of Thyroxine-resistant Hypothyroidism" by Eric K. Pritchard

TPA-UK conducts levothyroxine patient survey

TPA-UK publishes inaugural quarterly newsletter

Publication of Hypothyroid
Patient Survey results

Dr Theodore Friedman joins
TPA-UK as medical advisor

UPDATED Dr Peatfield
clinic schedule

Anti-fluoride campaigner
John Warman launches Welsh
Assembly e-petition against
adding fluoride to Welsh drinking water . . . Sign the petition now

Mercury and the Thyroid

The Blue Printing Company
and Active International Print
and Mailing Solutions help
TPA-UK campaign

TPA-UK responds to BTA
statement on Armour Thyroid

TPA-UK responds to BTA
statement on combined T4/T3
therapy

TPA-UK Information Pack
online ordering now available

National Pure Water Association
shows the "yellow card"

Send this "Yellow Card" to
your water company chairman

Sign the Petition to stop
fluoridation of our water

Write to your MP to protest
the addition of fluoride to our
drinking water!

78.4% of treated patients feel
optimum health NOT regained!

A question for BTA president
Professor Anthony Weetman
and his response

Sign International Thyroid
Patients Petition

News Archive

Percy - TPA-UK LogoThe NHS is Killing Us!

Thyroid Patient Advocacy-UK is a web site and campaigning and patient support forum with the objectives of increasing awareness of the prevalence of hypothyroidism, and the difficulties facing patients in obtaining a correct diagnosis and appropriate treatment for this disease within the NHS.

If you, or someone you know is suffering from hypothyroidism or has signs or symptoms of this disease, we hope you will find the information we have provided to be of help and comfort, and will encourage you to join our Internet discussion forum.

Please note that in order to bring an improved level of information and care to those with thyroid disease, Thyroid Patient Advocacy UK works with medical professionals who specialise in thyroid disorders.

Hypothyroid patients are desperately seeking an understanding and partnership with their NHS doctors to get the best treatment possible. We believe that every patient has the right to optimal treatment, including treatment with natural desiccated porcine thyroid extract (Armour Thyroid, USP being the most well known), and which can be prescribed within the NHS. The current situation, whereby hypothyroid patients are, through the neglect of NHS doctors, being left to self-diagnose, self-treat, and self-monitor owing to a lack of understanding of the disorder by NHS doctors, is unacceptable and, in my view, indictable, on the grounds of causing patient harm through professional neglect.

Some common and often undiagnosed symptoms and dangerous consequences of low thyroid include: serious mental problems, seizures, heart disease, diabetes (including misdiagnosis and complications) and constipation, resulting in colon cancer. Other symptoms include all female problems—due to high amounts of dangerous forms of oestrogen— such as tumours, fibroids, ovarian cysts, PMS, endometriosis, breast cancer, miscarriage, heavy periods and cramps, bladder problems leading to infections, and others.

We are fighting to remedy this. Our aims are to persuade the medical profession to re-examine current diagnosis and treatment protocols of hypothyroidism, which are urgently overdue, to raise awareness of treatment options amongst the general public and the medical profession, and to provide educational and emotional support to patients and their families.

Sheila Turner
Thyroid Patient Advocate and Founder of TPA-UK

Talk with Other Thyroid Patients and Get Support! Help Us Campaign for Better Diagnosis and Treatment!

TPA-UK online community forum on Yahoo Groups If you would like to learn more about thyroid disease — and hypothyroidism in particular — or suspect you have a thyroid disorder, you can talk with fellow patients anytime day or night on our Yahoo Health Groups community forum! Believe it when we say that it's NOT all in your head! Why not join a cracking group of people, all of whom have been there, done that, and bought the t-shirt!


 

Dr Barry Durrant-Peatfield Clinics

Dr Barry PeatfieldNew and current patients can schedule any new or ongoing consultations with Dr Peatfield with clinics held throughout the country through April 2008. These clinic dates are updated on a regular basis. Dr Peatfield has also announced his new clinic relocation and well as clinic information.

Dr Gordon Skinner Condemns GMC

Dr Gordon SkinnerDr Gordon Skinner speaks out about the recent General Medical Council (GMC) proceedings as well as on the diagnosis and treatment of the clinically hypothyroid patient in this five-document series. The official GMC FTP hearing transcripts as well as all of Dr Skinner's news and articles are also available here.


 
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