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Thank you. :)

Which infamous Sunday Times article? Does anyone have a copy or a link? Edit : Apart from a couple of the biggest names I don't know who the good guys and the bad guys are.

I was reading between the lines on the death case too - the amount of info was a bit limited. I just assumed the person was suffering from symptoms of a heart attack, ended up in hospital, had a troponin test which came back negative and so the full list of heart attack checks wasn't carried out...

Yes I am. See this link : http://www.thyroiduk.org.uk/tuk/testing/private_tests.html I use Blue Horizon Medical @ Spire when they have special offers on and also have some coupon codes allowing money off or extra tests for free. Phlebotomy is included with the Spire testing...

I know some people do say T3 is 4x stronger. Based on my own experience I don't feel it is that potent, but I accept that some people can get a huge kick from, say, 6.25mcg T3 per day. Some years ago I read about someone who went from being bedridden to being back at work with the addition of...

It is possible that your antibodies were very much higher before you went gluten-free - but sadly you'll never know now. I wish doctors would test antibodies more often than they currently do. I hope you felt some benefit by going gluten-free. It would have been a bit of a let-down if you didn't.

I think the manufacturers are telling porkies. If they think 1 grain of NDT (38mcg T4 and 9mcg T3) is equivalent to 100mcg Levo then it means they think 9mcg T3 is equivalent to (100 - 38)mcg T4 = 62mcg T4. In other words they think T3 is (62 divided by 9) = nearly 7 times as potent as T4...

I look at things from the exact opposite viewpoint. :D I would hate to be reliant on doctors for thyroid medication of any kind. I'd prefer to take the risk and get the form of thyroid meds I want to try, and I want to take it at a dose determined by me. I've been told how I feel too many times...

Possibly because the thyroid gets smaller and smaller over time, so there is less of a target for the antibodies. The usual end result of long-term Hashi's is a dessicated lump I think. But I've also read that if thyroid activity is kept to a minimum (by giving the body sufficient thyroid...

You could always try NDT from Thailand. There are three different brands available - Thiroyd, Thyroid-S and TR Man - and they are the cheapest NDT I've come across and when I last checked (ages ago) the price difference between the Thai brands and brands from other countries is very pronounced...

This is a useful link on which tests have been shown to be unreliable if the patient takes biotin and the testing equipment uses biotin in the assay process : http://www.ddtjournal.com/action/downloaddoc.php?docid=1212 I imagine the list may be rather longer now.

Been there, done that, had the same reaction several times... And it annoys the crap out of me. Society in general accepts that women and men are not identical beings who respond to situations in exactly the same way, but doctors seem to have different attitudes. For me (I'm female, despite my...

I have had this problem. I take magnesium supplements (magnesium citrate - I alternate between 200mg and 400mg per day, and on occasional days I don't take any) and potassium supplements (I take 99mg x 1 or 2 per day, and on occasional days I take none). If I stop either of these supplements for...

Some time ago I read that L-Glutamine was required by the gut to help healing and that it could be supplemented, and it helped lots of people with gastritis and other gut problems. I bought it in a powder form and started taking it. I've seen recommendations for people to take anything from 20g...

The whole paper can be found at sci-hub and I think it is worth downloading a copy. The quote about "1 excess hip fracture for every 1000 person-years" can be found in the Analysis and Commentary section: http://sci-hub.bz/10.1089/ct.2015;27.174-176

You may find this post on another forum of interest with respect to osteoporosis and thyroid levels : https://healthunlocked.com/thyroiduk/posts/132045680/straining-at-a-camel-and-producing-a-gnat

I watched the entire film, and I found it really shocking. Surely, any kind of testing needs to be tested itself for accuracy on a regular basis e.g. every 6 months or every year. People's whole lives depend on it. So, if a particular test is done on hair at Lab One, it should also be compared...

I remember my husband telling me years ago that him and his British colleagues used to wind up an American colleague at work. They would tell him that they would do something "presently". To a Brit, of course, that means at some indefinite time in the future. But to an American, apparently...

That's true. But they could have avoided probably 5 or more years of heavy costs, and stopped torturing (or never started torturing) so many thyroid patients if they'd paid attention to patients' warnings. It's too late now for most people who were prescribed it though. Very few patients still...

I saw this news earlier today. But I doubt it will make much difference to patients. NHS England is in the process of banning T3. Most, if not all, CCGs have already banned it anyway. Concordia is going bankrupt, so the NHS won't be able to get its money back. I imagine the profits they...