Below is a com­ment made by Ted on the forums on this site, and it expres­ses his appre­cia­tion to the mode­ra­tors who give back their time and infor­ma­tion to other patients.

But what I also see is that it’s pat­ting the back of thou­sands of you whom I observed…and whose expe­rien­ces I used, besi­des my own, to create the energy and mes­sage of this patient site – that T4-only treat­ment has been a disas­ter, that dosing by the TSH and it’s dubious range is mostly a fai­lure, that there are bet­ter labs your doc­tor can use, that desic­ca­ted thy­roid is a bet­ter treat­ment choice, and that many patients have adre­nal fati­gue that needs to be addres­sed by their doctors!

By the way, I can’t believe the veri­ta­ble trea­sure trove of infor­ma­tion on this forum. I’ve lear­ned more about my health sta­tus, and how to deal with it in one month here, than I’ve lear­ned in the last 15 years of searching books and tal­king with doc­tors. It’s hard to argue with all the prac­ti­cal expe­rience and hard-learned les­sons found here, even for a hard-headed reti­red bioche­mist. All you mode­ra­tors are to be con­gra­tu­la­ted for your tire­less energy and willing­ness to lis­ten (and res­pond) to what seems to be an ever-growing num­ber of very sick peo­ple. THANK YOU ALL!!!!!

And oh how I thank Ted back for those won­der­ful words. The very pur­pose of this site, and of those that con­tri­bute, is to edu­cate patients. And it appears to be wor­king! And hope­fully, that edu­ca­tion is being carried to the doctor’s office, and in turn, crea­ting the begin­ning of a MAJOR change in the way hypothy­roid patients are diag­no­sed and trea­ted. It’s long overdue.