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
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!
The
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.
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.
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.
Ric is 26-year-old guy who suffers with hypothyroidsism. He's not getting
the treatment Ihe needs off the NHS and is sick and tired of being fobbed
off!! If you have not felt well since starting a thyroid replacement then
this is the place for you! He wants to make everyone an "expert patient"
and make the doctors understand they don't know everything! We need the
correct treatment and we deserve to get it too! Come read Ric's blog.
