November 20, 2009

opraharmsupThe news this mor­ning about Oprah made me pause.

Yes, it’s being announ­ced today that there will be no more Oprah Win­frey Show on CBS after Fall of next year.  She’s saying goodbye. And the rumor is that she will move her talk show to The Oprah Win­frey Net­work, which repla­ces the Dis­co­very Health Chan­nel. We’ll see when she for­mally announ­ces it today on her show.

But the change sure does shine a bright spot­light on a colos­sal and com­plete fai­lure by Oprah and The Oprah Win­frey Show for hun­dreds of millions of thy­roid patients. Though she had her own bout with thy­roid disease (and may still be dea­ling with it when you con­si­der her weight issues), we all win­ced a year ago when she sta­ted that a month long Hawaiian vaca­tion and eating fresh foods with soy milk (a goi­tro­gen) were a great way to treat her thy­roid con­di­tion. Yikes.   We equally squir­med in our seats when Dr. Chris­tiane North­rup made the com­ment that our thy­roid pro­blems were due to an “energy bloc­kage in the throat region, the result of a life­time of ’swa­llo­wing’ words one is aching to say.” Dou­ble yikes.

And since then, we have watched nothing, zilch, zero from Oprah and The Opray Win­frey Show about a horren­dous 55-year medi­cal scan­dal of thy­roid treat­ment that has nega­ti­vely affec­ted the lives of hun­dreds of millions of thy­roid patients world­wide. T4-only meds like Synth­roid, the dar­ling medi­ca­tion of the medi­cal com­mu­nity for hypothy­roi­dism treat­ment, has left hun­dreds of millions sick.  The TSH lab test has equally sent us to hell.  Because we have been for­ced to live with con­ti­nuing symp­toms of hypothy­roi­dism, we’ve endu­red much more tes­ting and have been put on many other medi­ca­tions to ban­daid our con­ti­nuing symp­toms. And a majo­rity of us have had to deal with the addi­tio­nal bur­den of adre­nal fati­gue thanks to all the above.

It’s been hell, Oprah. But you never lis­te­ned.  So for me per­so­nally, I could care less what you do now. You’ve let millions of us down.

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On a far bet­ter note:  Last night’s Thy­roid Patient Com­mu­nity Call on Talkshoe was exce­llent. From thyroid/adrenal patient Vale­rie Tay­lor, who is abso­lu­tely one of the most know­led­gea­ble patients in the world about adre­nals and RT3, we gai­ned good infor­ma­tion how it rai­ses its ugly head when you have high or low cor­ti­sol, low B12, low ferri­tin and other untrea­ted issues, and how to treat it. You can go back to Talkshoe and lis­ten to the broad­cast, which was Epi­sode 7.  See my blog post right below this. As far as future Talkshoe Com­mu­nity Calls: they will always be announ­ced here first.

Below that, you’ll read how cellu­lose as a filler just may be a huge pro­blem in natu­ral desic­ca­ted thy­roid meds. But we are also dis­co­ve­ring that a good desic­ca­ted thy­roid like Natu­reth­roid, even with its cellu­lose, can seem even worse if we have undis­co­ve­red and untrea­ted issues like low B12, low Vit. A, low ferri­tin, low Vit. D and other con­di­tions com­mon with hypothy­roi­dism.  Make sure you have tes­ted for these.

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8 Responses to “Oprah leaves her show behind in 2011, and also leaves millions of thyroid patients in the dust”

  1. Rachel said:

    Nov 20, 09 at 1:26 pm

    Right on, Oprah has defi­netly let us down!

    I would like to add to the “..55-year medi­cal scan­dal of thy­roid treat­ment..” that it has also left many many peo­ple UNDIAGNOSED and still need­lessly suffering.

    I like Dr. David Derry’s com­ment regar­ding the use of the TSH test for diag­no­sis and treat­ment (ins­tead of cli­ni­cal pre­sen­ta­tion), “The con­se­quen­ces of this have been horrendous.”

  2. Rose said:

    Nov 21, 09 at 12:48 pm

    Can you leave a link to the Takshoe show? Thanks much, Janie. Rose

    From Janie: link in blog post right below this. lol.

  3. Val M. said:

    Nov 22, 09 at 10:57 am

    To me it looks like Oprah is a vic­tim of this thy­roid scan­dal– she has hel­ped so many in other areas. Her doctor/endocrinologist is pro­bably also Igno­rant of what we now know or one of them Rigid ones who worships the false god of t4 only for ever­yone des­pite con­ti­nuing symp­toms. Assu­ming this is true… how do we edu­cate and help Oprah? Before I found this site, I was una­ware of the t3 thing, having an endo that never even told me about natu­ral thy­roid and having end­less symp­toms while on synth­roid. Is it pos­si­ble Oprah falls into this boat some of us were in? Could be. So lets try to help her.. If she dis­co­vers what we know to be true and finds relief.. Im sure she would start sprea­ding the news. Time to go to Oprah.com and post yer sto­ries in a calm lucid tone. Peo­ple are more apt to lis­ten then,. since shou­ting never wor­ked for me.

    (From Janie: Great post, Val. I want to add that patients have been sen­ding her calm lucid emails for years. :( So far, no res­ponse whatsoever.)

  4. Val M. said:

    Nov 23, 09 at 3:55 pm

    Thanks Janie, Someone on oprah.com keeps pos­ting that Oprah does not read the com­ments… If thats true perhaps one of her wor­kers is “fil­te­ring” the posts Oprah actually reads. I say never give up. Even­tually something should hap­pen ( I sure hope so).… and maybe Oprah falls into a boat I once occu­pied.. belie­ving without ques­tion– wha­te­ver the doc­tor said, being led into a pre­ma­ture RAI pro­ce­dure and given vir­tually NO infor­ma­tion as to the side effects Rai can give you.. In my case the radia­tion dama­ged my Parathy­roid gland and now Im con­ten­ding with that pro­blem too.
    When I had trip­ped out symp­toms I called the endo’s office who told me my symp­toms had NOTHING to do with my thy­roid. I then got onto the net and dis­co­ve­red they were in error. I do not see him any­more. I have a new doc­tor whose eyes are open as well as her mind and am impro­ving. Lets just hope –in regard to Oprah. I per­so­nally feel she would not mali­ciously ignore us or dis­miss us if she was on to what is going on. But, indeed, it is a sad state of affairs that the emails from us thy­roid suf­fe­rers who share in her disease have not yet been either addres­sed nor brought to her atten­tion so she can inves­ti­gate for herself.

  5. Lee Roy said:

    Nov 23, 09 at 4:28 pm

    So sad about Oprah (don’t have pay TV)
    mainly trying to con­tact you janie about some thy­roid issues. is this the right place? please email me Thanks

    (From Janie: Hi there. If it’s non-personal-treatment ques­tions, there’s a Con­tact Me form on any page on STTM. Or, if you need feed­back on your per­so­nal thy­roid issues, here’s where you go for feed­back: http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/talk-to-others )

  6. micheleabelle said:

    Nov 26, 09 at 8:14 pm

    i don’t unders­tand why we should care? she didn’t exactly let us down, as she was never on our side to begin with. she doesn’t “get” it, never did and pro­bably never will. she para­des so-called medi­cal “experts” around in front of the unsus­pec­ting mas­ses who will go on fee­ling ill, thin­king all that is nee­ded is to NOT “swa­llow their words” in order to feel bet­ter. i say good rid­dance. that woman has irri­ta­ted me for over 20 years.

  7. Donna said:

    Nov 30, 09 at 11:45 am

    Janie: Have you con­tac­ted Oprah’s peo­ple about repor­ting on your fin­ding on her show? Get her the book! We will all corro­bo­rate your fin­dings– BTW– Has anyone felt very HOT– like a bur­ning sen­sa­tion across the back of the neck and arms? I have had this for years and have just rea­li­zed (now that it was gone when I was on Natu­reth­roid and is back now that I have begun NDT) that it is as a result of a need to correct dosing– more correc­tions are nee­ded, I guess– Pain­ful. Would love to hear comments

    From Janie: Yes, and a hand­ful of peo­ple have used the publishing com­pany to send her the book. She has igno­red it all. As far as the issue you men­tion, also use this page: http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/talk-to-others )

  8. London lady said:

    Dec 15, 09 at 12:42 pm

    Hi there, lis­ten folks, Oprah is just one human being. It is not her res­pon­si­bi­lity to fight anyo­nes health cor­ner. She is a chat show host not a health guru. The world gives her two much power. As a collec­tive it is up to us to make a real dif­fe­rence and raise these issues any­way we can.

    I have been asked today to make a docu­men­tary on the thy­roid scan­del. I live in Lon­don and would love to speak with indi­vi­duals who could sup­port this docu­men­tary in anyway.

    I have also suf­fe­red with this dis-ease for 10 years and am finally on cyno­mel. Please email me on carterchat@hotmail.com.

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