Re:www.medhelp.org wants to post to our message board

[Guest guest]

Hi, Ira. The discussion of allopathic medication for hypothyroidism is

a major part of our " product " ; sometimes it is cussed and sometimes

praised. With hypothyroidism even those who would prefer totally

" natural " or " alternative " treatments often have to combine aspects of

both schools of thought in their treatment because there are no

supplements that will provide a " cure " or even relief if you do not have

a working thyroid gland. IMHO if you were to refuse inclusion of

allopathic treatment for hypothyroidism then you would probably lose a

lot of members; and those left would be ill served because frankly

some/many of the " alternative " treatments may be ineffective or harmful.

BTW, those of you who have received a " page not found " [or similar]

error need to delete the period at the end of the URL. It should be:

http://www.medhelp.org/land/thyroid-hormones-tracker

<http://www.medhelp.org/land/thyroid-hormones-tracker.>

That being said I don't know anything about medhelp.org, or how helpful

it would be to us. I do notice that the person who contacted you is " VP

of Sales & Marketing Operations " ; but I don't know if his job is to try

to sell us something or not. That would be something that IMHO we DO

NOT need [whether it is an allopathic or alternative product].

Regards,

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> www.medhelp.org wants to post to our message board

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> Posted by: " Ira " iramfine@...

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> iramfine <iramfine>

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> Sat Jun 14, 2008 5:44 pm (PDT)

>

> hello, members

>

> i received the following email requesting permission to post to our

> message board. i read the message, and it sounds appropriate to me,

> however, i do now know if this particular procedure is allopathic in

> nature, and not alternative. however, since it does sound like the

> sort of thing that members might want to pursue, i have decided to

> allow the posting. your comments are welcome.

>

> ira m fine,

> group moderator

>

> Hi,

>

> I'm from www.medhelp.

> org and we're an online health community that has

> communities for over 200 conditions, of which Thyroid Disorders is one

> of the bigger ones. We have been rolling out a series of what we call

> trackers for various conditions, and with the help of our thyroid

> community and doctors, we have just rolled out a new tracker specific

> to thyroid disorders. It allows you to track hormone levels, symptoms

> and treatments with an interactive calendar/charting tool. As far as

> we know, this tool is the first of its kind, and the feedback from our

> Thyroid community has been terrific. I thought this might be something

> your community might be interested in, and wanted to reach out.

>

> We'd love to be able to post about this at the hypothyroidism

> group, but wanted to ask your permission before doing so. Let me know

> if this is ok, or if maybe you'd rather do it yourself, or if you'd

> rather we didn't. To take a look at it, or to try it out, go to:

> http://www.medhelp.org/land/thyroid-hormones-tracker.

> <http://www.medhelp.org/land/thyroid-hormones-tracker.>

>

> Thank you for your time.

>

> Harry Radenberg

>

> Medhelp.org

>

> Harry Radenberg

>

> MedHelp.org

>

> VP of Sales & Marketing Operations

>

> P: (978)-405-2192

>

> M: (978)-460-0637

>

> F: (978) 841-7895

>

> harry.radenberg@... <mailto:harry.radenberg%40medhelp.org>

[Guest guest]

Thanks , I did run into that problem. Ira, I have to agree with

to some extent. I do not know enough about this company to

agree or disagree.

Venizia

>

> Hi, Ira. The discussion of allopathic medication for hypothyroidism is

> a major part of our " product " ; sometimes it is cussed and sometimes

> praised. With hypothyroidism even those who would prefer totally

> " natural " or " alternative " treatments often have to combine aspects of

> both schools of thought in their treatment because there are no

> supplements that will provide a " cure " or even relief if you do not

have

> a working thyroid gland. IMHO if you were to refuse inclusion of

> allopathic treatment for hypothyroidism then you would probably lose a

> lot of members; and those left would be ill served because frankly

> some/many of the " alternative " treatments may be ineffective or harmful.

>

> BTW, those of you who have received a " page not found " [or similar]

> error need to delete the period at the end of the URL. It should be:

>

> http://www.medhelp.org/land/thyroid-hormones-tracker

> <http://www.medhelp.org/land/thyroid-hormones-tracker.>

>

>

[Guest guest]

In my reply I provided a corrected link for the bad URL by copying the

original and correcting it; and the result you see is the one on top

below. For some reason my browser [i guess] thinks the original should

also be included and adds it back in. So the top one is correct and the

bottom one is the incorrect original that got back into my post only God

knows how. Sorry...

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> www.medhelp.org wants to post to our message board

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> Posted by: " " res075oh@...

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> jamesl33511 <jamesl33511>

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> Sun Jun 15, 2008 1:28 pm (PDT)

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> [,,,]

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> BTW, those of you who have received a " page not found " [or similar]

> error need to delete the period at the end of the URL. It should be:

>

> http://www.medhelp.org/land/thyroid-hormones-tracker

> <http://www.medhelp.org/land/thyroid-hormones-tracker>

> <http://www.medhelp.org/land/thyroid-hormones-tracker.

> <http://www.medhelp.org/land/thyroid-hormones-tracker.>>