I have tried in vain to find the podcast of Paula Dakin’s CBC report. Can you help me?

thanks

I am taking dessicated thyroid now…and have added in Essential Therapeutics Adrenal Cortex found online…seems
to help too. I don’t do any testing (maybe the benifit of not having an endchrinologist)…just take the amount that makes me feel better. I am possibly not the same as other people…but don’t want to be silent if I can give anyone some hope. I’m not 100 percent better yet…but as sick as I was…any inprovement…is worthwhile…praying for wisdom for the rest.
Thank you again to all who have helped to fight this fight…don’t give up!

Maybe the endocrinologist’s comments were included in the interest of balanced reporting, but when you have the experiences of patients who are benefiting from desiccated thyroid, why must we take the word of someone with really no experience using or prescribing, and no INTEREST in using or prescribing it? Who decides that this doctor’s opinion is the last word on the issue? The patients who would benefit from this old fashioned, but extremely sensible treatment are not in the minority. How many people (mainly women, and herein may lie the problem) do we know who are hypothyroid, take Synthroid (only enough to catch the very limit of the “normal” tsh level), and then they go on to tell us of their other illnesses like allergies, depression, joint pain, fibromyalgia,etc. and yet they still continue to exhibit classic symptoms of hypothyroidism? Then they are told their thyroid is normal, it’s all in their heads, here take a prescription for more drugs to treat all these other disorders. As long as the makers of synthetic (read: patentable) drugs are allowed to infuence the curricula of our medical schools and press our doctors and pharmacists to only consider their drugs as viable treatments, this situation will continue. I had great hopes that this report would be different than the reports we get on American television, but sadly it’s kind of more of the same.

I am a thyroid patient in Canada, who has been dealing with the effects of Graves Disease and Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis for over 20 years. My doctor was not interested enough to even find out what diseases I had, didn’t think it was important enough. Thankfully the internet came along, because this website and others like it emboldened me to ask for a referral to a specialist. First I got an internist who didn’t care about thyroid disease, then finally an endocrinologist, and that was frustrating too, because he wasn’t interested much in thyroid, being more of a diabetes specialist. At least he finally gave me desiccated thyroid, and it’s been an ongoing battle, but I finally take 8 x 30mg tablets/day, divided into 4 doses about 4-5 hours apart. I’m doing much better than I ever did on Synthyroid (I just returned from a tropical vacation with my husband, something that would have been too daunting before desiccated thyroid). My tsh is at 0.03 – 0.04 (see the post below about lower tsh levels being safer than previously believed). I am 50 and have the bone density of a 20 year old. I joined Curves and get there 2 – 3 times/week, not possible before desiccated thyroid). I am awaiting results of a 4-point cortisol saliva test to see if more improvement might occur as a result of addressing possible adrenal insufficiency. That’s another battle, but it’s my body, and I will no longer let others decide what’s best for it without at least researching my options.

(From Janie: You know, I’m saddened if the report thinks that the false opinion of the Endocrinologist is “balanced reporting”. That’s like saying if a program is done on the importance of drinking water, there should also be someone on there who says drinking water is bad for one’s health. i.e. there’s no balance whatsoever. There’s just a truth and a wacko statement.)