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Since I created this site around November of 2005, I’ve had several of you ask if you could donate, somehow, somewhere. I wasn’t sure how to do that. What I did know is that millions of patients have suffered, and still suffer…and this site was to help educate you on what we have learned…and that education, in turn, could be taken to your doctors on how to stop the madness.

But, I found out that STTM can have a way for those that appreciate and use it to donate money towards the cost of HAVING THIS SITE UP—towards the hosting fees. Yes, STTM costs me. So…at the bottom of any non-forum page, just like this one, you will see a small rectangular button that says: HOSTING DONATIONS ACCEPTED You can donate any amount–high, low or in between–to the company that hosts STTM. It’s totally your decision.

Yes, it helps me, but it certainly underscores that STTM is “everyones” site, not just mine. So for those of you who have really wanted to help, and to feel a part of an important worldwide patient revolution, there it is. And thanks.

NO.

The Endocrine Society’s 89th Annual Meeting is going to occur in Toronto, Canada, June 2-5th this year. And one of the scheduled presentations is titled: Thyroid Hormone Therapy: Why Some Patients Are Unhappy.

Now based on that title, you can be an optimist and decide that yes…a presentation is going to be given that will give a clue why MILLIONS of us are unhappy, unhealthy and reeking of hypothyroid symptoms with a “normal” TSH….and have been for FIVE DECADES!! It’s enough to get your hopes flying.

But below is what was said by the speaker:

Today, pure synthetic T4 is the medication that the vast majority of hypothyroid patients use. Most physicians now consider desiccated thyroid and the combinations of synthetic T4 and T3 to be obsolete. Since they contain both T4 and T3, and T3 is absorbed and used by the body more quickly than T4, their T3 content can cause some patients to develop temporary symptoms of hyperthyroidism (palpitations, nervousness) after a tablet is taken. Also, desiccated thyroid, derived from slaughterhouse animals, may have variable potency from batch to batch, depending on the animals’ diet, the season of the year, and the species of animal used to make the tablets.

Huh?? That “obsolete” desiccated thyroid is turning lives around 180 degrees! And those “temporary symptoms of hyperthyroidism” are caused by low cortisol in some, not by a problem in the tablet. And finally, funny that those of us on dessicated thyroid aren’t noticing any issues of variability.

So, unless I hear differently, I can only presume that in early June, these Endocrinologists will only continue to be prescribing medications that do NOT work (e.g. Synthroid), and making ink spots on a piece of paper (called the TSH lab and range) far, far more important than obvious hypothyroid symptoms in their patients. i.e. they will continue the treatment which has only served to keep ALL of us SICK.

Cuiusvis hominis est errare; nullius nisi insipientis in errore perseverare

And to the list above, I can add any and all mainstream press media out there. Because you are ALL falling behind. There is a HUGE revolution going on among thyroid patients against DECADES of lousy treatment, and YOU are failing monstrously to see it and report it.

So take heed. We are UNIMPRESSED with your deaf ear and dumb vision and monkey-says, monkey-do reporting. There is a LOT more going on than what the medical establishment is going to feed you. Millions of patients across the nation AND THE WORLD have been paying an appalling price for decades due to a contemptible method of thyroid treatment that involves a medication that has NOT worked, a TSH lab range that keeps patients hypothyroid, and rigid doctors who’d rather bandaid continuing hypothyroid symptoms with anti-depressants, statins, pain meds, and psychotrophic meds rather than open their eyes and think outside their Medical School Training Box. Stop the thyroid madness!

The needle on the record player keeps skipping over the same note. News/Entertainment programs like NBC’s The Today Show continue to present the same inaccurate globbity-glook that has always been presented by news media.

The segment on today’s April 10th program, in a “Today’s Woman” interview by Katie Couric with Dr. Judith Reichman, was only more of the same flawed and toxic information that has kept potentially MILLIONS of thyroid patients sick for decades.

So what if the TSH “is a very simply blood test”, as stated by Reichman. It’s an INACCURATE blood test! The TSH test, with it’s lousy range, fails to show the problem for years, even while patients have symptoms that scream hypothyroid–which of course, doctors ignore. And when the TSH does show a problem, the patient is kept within it’s dubious range, and told that those lingering hypo symptoms have nothing to do with their thyroid. Give me a break.

Additionally, it was clear that the medication of choice referred to by Reichman is the substandard T4-only medication, commonly known by the brand names Synthroid or Levoxyl. THEY DON’T WORK, any more than an elevator that only rises to the 5th floor in a 50 story building “works”!!

This site does not exist because T4 meds have been working! This site exists because thousands upon thousands of patients have had continuing symptoms on these lousy medications for years upon years, and have been ignored and put on anti-depressants, statins, and anti-anxiety meds (to name a few) to counter the very symptoms brought on by an inferior medication and a rigid reliance on a TSH lab test.

To NBC’S TODAY SHOW: if you are simply a monstrous media machine that regurgitates the same lousy and vacant information that has always been out there, so be it. Your reputation will preceed you. Or, if you want to become known as a organization that is UP-TO-DATE and willing to HELP the millions of viewers who can potentially be watching you, GET IT RIGHT!!! Because what you presented on this segment STUNK TO HIGH HEAVEN and only serves to keep millions of thyroid patients sick.