Guest guest Posted July 30, 2008 Report Share Posted July 30, 2008 afternoon all, what a wasted opportunity this show was, it does however reinforce why i don't watch daytime television ! regards jane Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 6, 2010 Report Share Posted April 6, 2010 Ali Jagger. It's the same person who did an interview for the daily mail TPA Message #57312. Be interesting if she mentions taking T3. recording it to watch later. > > I expect you know but thought I'd just mention http://www.itv.com/lifestyle/thismorning/reallife/mythyroidhell/ > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 6, 2010 Report Share Posted April 6, 2010 Just watched it - this was brilliant. Really brought up how the ordinary GP appears incapable of diagnosing hypothyroidism and doesn't do the thyroid function tests that should be done. Told sufferers how, if they have symptoms of hypothyroidism but normal blood test results to go back to their GP and discuss this matter further and get a referral to an endocrinologist. Dr really was quite emotional about how badly hypothyroid patients are treated in the UK and even mentioned that those who have been given the diagnosis of CFS, ME and FM are likely to have a thyroid problem. I was really pleased with this and felt that we ARE starting to go in the right direction. I wish I could have been there and added something about those people unable to get well with levothyroxine alone, and how they needed a T3 hormone containing product could help them enormously, but…I was sat in my armchair. I NEVER watch morning television, but I had a late bath and went downstairs too have a cuppa, and switched on TV and this programme was just starting. Luv - Sheila I expect you know but thought I'd just mention http://www.itv.com/lifestyle/thismorning/reallife/mythyroidhell/ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.437 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2791 - Release Date: 04/05/10 18:32:00 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 6, 2010 Report Share Posted April 6, 2010 As an aside, Dr is i believe some kind of advocate now for celiac disease, as he has recently been diagnosed with it. But drs don't test or consider non celiac gluten sensitivity, do they. Dr C was diagnosed with very high cholesterol a few years ago, i think - wonder if he explored they thyroid/cholesterol link Chris > > http://www.itv.com/lifestyle/thismorning/reallife/mythyroidhell/ > > Here is the link to the interview. I watched it just now, but didn't see it on TV. > > It was a start that the doctor mentioned about ME/CFS/Fibromyalgia/coeliacs because there are so many of us who have Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 6, 2010 Report Share Posted April 6, 2010 I'm impressed with what Dr said though - it's a shame more GPs aren't as clued up as he is. The impression that I am now getting with more alternative-minded, T3-minded, and nutritional-minded doctors, is that they are under pressure not to let on their thoughts too much. So even when a GP is clued up, they feel unable to explain the whole picture. Even if thyroid conversion may seem complex to an ill person, when you don't have the health to read up, it is still something they could get across if they felt able to. Perhaps as Sheila said T3 is really like a 4 letter word, I bet he really does know about it though. In the meantime, while doctors are fearful of loosing their jobs over T3, therefore patients are in a mess, kept ill and it may take them a long time to find out about it. It boils down to the fact that even on-board doctors are not wanting to appear on-board, but they don't want you buying your tablets yourself on the internet. I think there is small part of some doctors conscience where they don't want us to stay ill; but don't want to do the right thing either, but don't want you to self-medicate. They know full well that they have a conflict of interests/conscience and by this conflict of interest and not quite admitting the full picture, they are deluding the public by not giving full information that there are other tablets. Yet it's a simple prescription and they shouldn't have to be under this professional conflict. There does seem to be a grey area, where a doctor makes it clear they have the knowledge, but dare not say too much, to creates ambiguity, when the full-facts could be said if it was possible. I think this goes very deep, not just this TV programme, but at medical appointments too. It really makes me wonder what other conspiracies and inadequacies there are and what other medical problems are left un-treated or treated but not in an optimum way. After all the thyroid is considered basic/common-place medical problem, so if they cannot get it right, heaven-help more rare problems. Fiona Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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