Thyroid UK is a non-profit organisation campaigning for, and providing information and support to those with Thyroid or related disease.
Aims of Thyroid UK
Thyroid UK was formed for the following reasons:
- To provide advice, information and support to sufferers of Thyroid disease.
- To promote public awareness in regard to Thyroid disorders.
- To act as a resource centre and disseminate information.
- To encourage scientific research for the education, alleviation, care, treatment and cure of thyroid disease.
- To raise funds needed to achieve the stated objectives.
A message from Lyn Mynott - the current chairperson
I have had many telephone calls and letters from people who are now feeling better, because they have taken our advice.
I am campaigning to help people who are having symptoms of thyroid disease, but whose blood tests come back “normal” or “borderline” and also to help those people who are on thyroxine for their underactivity and who are still ill.
I appeared on Watchdog Healthcheck on 15th March 1999 regarding this and since then I’ve had thousands of e-mails and letters, all telling me the same story. It’s about time the GP’s helped us a bit more!
I am now trying to make doctors understand that even though the blood test results come back “normal”, one person’s normal could be at the bottom of the range, and another person’s could be at the top of the range. How can the doctors know which person is which. How do they know that a particular person’s blood test is at the correct point – it could have gone up or down within the range? Five points within the range could make a lot of difference to how one person feels.
Some people who are on thyroxine could have a conversion problem and need to be on either T3 or the natural medication, Armour thyroid. They will not become well on Thyroxine alone as this is only one of the hormones the thyroid produces.
Please let me know how you get on - I am trying to make a database of those of us who were able to start on thyroxine and got better so that I can show the statistics to those in high places!! Also, once you find a sympathetic doctor who agreed to put you on a trial of thyroxine, please give me his name and address - I want to make a database of doctors so that we can help others in your area.
Best Wishes,
Lyn Mynott
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