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NEW Have some fun on a snowy day with our Kick Off the New Year Quiz - And win some money too! See details on our home page

NEW Download the December TPA-UK newsletter (PDF)

NEW Dr Peatfield clinic schedule

NEW TPA-UK announces new medical adviser

Adrenal/Thyroid Presentation by Dr Nigel Abraham, Scientific Director, Genova Diagnostics

Endocrinologist Dr Richard Guttler makes false claims about natural desiccated thyroid medications (PDF format) - published in Thyroid Science 4(9):C1-6, 2009 www.ThyroidScience.com

TPA newsletters and special events

SPECIAL News section TPA battles against the Royal College of Physicians on thyroxine and hypothyroid statement

Post your comments over inappropriate diagnosis and treatment of primary hypothyroidism on the Medical News website

Research papers to give to your doctor

BTF finally responds to our research papers and TPA replies . . . and STILL NO WORD from the BTA Executive Committee

TPA-UK responds to BTA statement on Armour Thyroid

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

78.4% of treated patients feel optimum health NOT regained!

Sign our Medical Justice Petition to the UK Office of Fair Trading

TPA-UK is accepted into NHS Patient Advice and Liasion Service (PALS)

Buy anything from Amazon and TPA receives 5% donation

TPA-UK Information Pack online ordering now available

Publication of Hypothyroid Patient Survey results

Disclaimer regarding Hypothyroid Patient Survey

Sign International Thyroid Patients Petition

News Archive

A doctor writes…..

“Low thyroid function, and its evil hand-maiden, low adrenal function, are extraordinarily common and affect thousands of people – calculated by some authorities as high as one in four. Thyroid and adrenal insufficiency is the Cinderella of modern medicine. Although common, diagnosis is a hit and miss affair and treatment, when offered, can be insufficient and inappropriate. This extraordinary failure in medicine condemns thousands of people to chronic ill health. Medical practitioners shelter themselves behind test results, which are routinely used to claim more than they test. They refuse to listen to their patients or even credit the evidence of their own eyes, leaving their patients to remain ill for the rest of their lives. It is because of this disgraceful state of affairs that TPA-UK was founded.

TPA-UK’s medical advisers have abundant experience in breaking through the fog of misinformation in the minds of NHS medical practitioners, and can help correct the appalling situation which exists today.

TPA-UK is determined that the imprecise language used by the endocrinology specialty leading to ambiguous diagnosis should be eliminated. Hypothyroidism may refer to a deficiency in the secretion of the thyroid gland or it may refer to a general deficiency of thyroid hormones. Thyroid hormone may refer to thyroxine only, or thyroxine-related hormones, T3, T2, and T1. Because of medical practice guidelines, this fog, which violates tenets of clarity, precision, and valid consent, must be lifted so sufferers would no longer need TPA-UK’s support.

There is need to test for vital T3 levels or better usage. In particular, TPA-UK advocate the use of natural desiccated thyroid, widely used for over a century but now fallen into disfavour following the use of synthetic preparations, wrongly regarded by doctors – at the receiving end of remorseless propaganda from drug companies and medical authorities alike – as the treatment of choice.

TPA has access to a vast body of evidence, demonstrating the arrogance and ignorance which exists within current establishment thinking. Medical practice ignores and/or dismisses relevant physiology that has been known to medical science for nearly 40 years, ignores medical ethics, and ignores the human rights of patients.

This web site, the TPA-UK Information Pack and the Internet discussion forum is available to all and will help patients and doctors develop greater knowledge and understanding about the illness, will advise on reliable diagnostic tests, and recommend where to obtain proper, effective treatment.

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they
fight you, then you win."
—Mahatma Gandhi

Have some fun on a snowy day with our Kick Off the New Year Quiz - And win some money too!

To help you enjoy the start of the New Year and win some money in the bargain, why not kick it off by entering our New Year Quiz. This is a new idea for TPA-UK. Entry costs £1.50 for each entry form, but as we are hoping to raise funding towards our Charity status. Ask all the members of your family, friends, work colleagues and neighbours to take part too. The prizes to be won are First prize - £75, Second prize - £50 and third prize - £25.

In order to receive the Quiz, you must send £1.50 for each entry. Make your payment through Pay Pal to sheilaturner@tpa-uk.org.uk or make a direct transfer of the money to our Bank: HSBC. Sort Code: 40-26-01, Account No: 31456016, Account name: Thyroid PAUK

For those of you who would rather send a cheque, you should make this payable to Thyroid Patient Advocacy-UK and send it to Sheila Turner, Squirrel Cottage, Ickornshaw, Cowling, Nr Keighley, BD22 0DH, Yorkshire as soon as possible.

Once your payment has been received, you will receive a link to the New Year Quiz which you can either print off to complete, or you can complete and return by email. The Quiz is made up of 100 questions which includes general knowledge, cryptic clues, anagrams etc. Some are easy, some a bit more difficuilt – that is why we have given you until 31 January. ENJOY – AND DO YOUR LITTLE BIT TO HELP TPA-UK!

 

Four in five patients think they know their condition before consulting a doctor - are you one of them?

Doctor and patientThe GP on the GMTV programme highlighted this as a dangerous occupation which in some cases could be true. However, there is another side to the story. Our stories.

Please relate your stories to GMTV.

Individual letters and messages sent to the RCP regarding their thyroxine-only statement

These are messages and letters sent to the Royal College of Physicians from members of Thyroid Patient Advocacy-UK. These patients express their extreme dissatisfaction with regards to the recent statement issued by the RCP concerning the primary treatment of hypothyroidism.

 

The Quality Assessment Life-Years (QALY) Argument for Continuing a T3 Therapy

This is an analysis that you can copy and take to your medical practitioner if the Royal College of Physicians Guidelines has made them reconsider continuing giving you either synthetic T3 or natural desiccated thyroid and putting you back onto levothyroxine.

 

Genova Diagnostics makes TPA donation

Genova Diagnostics has generously donated to TPA-UK and have arranged to give us discounts on the following tests: Thyroid Screen - Total, Thyroid Hormones - Urine (T3/T4), Adrenal Stress Profile, Candida Antibody Profile. Become a TPA-UK forum member to learn more and book your tests.

 
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