MAIL ON SUNDAY - REVIEW SECTION

July 3, 2011

Dear Member

THYROID ARTICLE - TPA MEMBER'S STORY

At last, the promised article has been published in the Mail on Sunday

today. You will find this in the Review Magazine on Page 23. It starts

out with Gail's story (one of our members) and then goes on to talk

about Dr Peatfield (with some very old information that should have been

updated) and what he has to say about the lack of diagnosis and

treatment for those with symptoms. The article gets in quite a few of

the points I made thankfully but there could have been more, but we have

to be grateful for the points that have been published. Dr Mark

Vanderpump of BTA states that yes, there are approximately 5% of people

who don't get well on levothyroxine-only and that they need to find out

why t his is, but then talks about the 12 studies that show that T4/T3

doesn't work any better than T3 and that T3 is dangerous, but I have

only had this article read out over the phone to me by Marie, so don't

know of the details.

TPA gets an honourable mention.

I sincerely hope that after you have read the article, you will help our

cause by writing to the Editor of the Mail on Sunday, either online or

via snail mail and put your story across and tell him what you think

about the way you have been treated and also about TPA to help put us on

the map for those people who don't know about us and who we could help.

The article sadly did NOT mention the 1032 counterexamples already

listed in our Register who remained ill on T4 only, yet whose symptoms

were mitigated or went away completely when they started taking some

form of T3, but they did mention that over 250,000 citizens in the UK

are being left to suffer.

It's about time that members of certain thyroid associations were made

to declare their interests ....

Sheila

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