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UPDATE: I am plea­sed to announce that the most gutsy, revo­lu­tio­nary, com­prehen­sive and prac­ti­cal book on the sub­ject of diag­no­sis, treat­ment, and medi­ca­tions for hypothy­roid, as well as rela­ted con­di­tions, inc­lu­ding low ferri­tin, adre­nal fati­gue and other pro­blems which befall hypothy­roid patients…is out! This is YOUR book as a patient-to-patient book.

The link below will take you to the Publisher’s web­site. On the home page, you can read about the publisher. Then click on the PRODUCTS page to see the book and infor­ma­tion. Click on the DOUBLE GREEN ARROWS to open up the entire text plus ship­ping infor­ma­tion.

www.laughinggrapepublishing.com

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Yup, it’s done. It’s com­plete. And I can say without a doubt that there is NO book on hypothy­roid as hands-on as this one. Why can I say that? Because the book is based on YOUR EXPERIENCE and thou­sands like you. Because this is THE patient-to-patient book. Yes, I wrote it, but YOU wrote it, too.

Where is the STTM book avai­la­ble? It will FIRST be avai­la­ble right here on the site in appro­xi­ma­tely two weeks. It’s about 300 pages and will sell for 19.95. So keep coming back here.

Is the STTM book a copy of the web­site? Not exactly. Yes, you will see some things in the book that ARE on the web­site. That was impor­tant. But.…you will also find a chap­ter totally on T3. You will learn some his­tory that’s not on the web­site. You will get more details on adre­nal sup­port. You will have new sto­ries of others. You will read a chap­ter totally writ­ten for and about doc­tors. And there’s much more that is not right on the STTM site…little details inser­ted here and inser­ted there.

Why did I write it? Because though the STTM web­site has done WONDERS to reach peo­ple, MORE is nee­ded. There are folks out there who are NOT coming to the web, or even know to look for ans­wers, and this book will reach them. And.…it can simply be more pro­duc­tive to have a BOOK to refer to and a BOOK to read when you are tra­ve­ling in the air­plane or wai­ting in the doctor’s office. AND.….FINALLY, we have something to HAND THE DOCTOR when he or she doesn’t get what we are tal­king about…or to our family or friends when they don’t get it, either.

Get ready. I’m exci­ted. I hope you are too.

P.S. Guess what Oprah Win­frey may be drin­king daily?? Soy milk. And since soy is a known thy­roid inhi­bi­tor, guess what she’s doing to her thy­roid? Quo­ted directly from her site: Thanks to all the yogurt and calcium-enriched soy­milk she con­su­mes, she’s get­ting an ave­rage of about 1,100 mg of cal­cium daily OOPS.

I have had many folks email me about their con­cern that Oprah is not only fai­ling to get the mes­sage about her thy­roid issue, but thy­roid advo­ca­tes and inter­views are not sen­ding the mes­sage about what infor­ma­tion is nee­ded out there…and the media has STILL not caught on to this HUGE treat­ment scan­dal of the use of T4-only meds and the TSH lab. So, by request, I have crea­ted a let­ter tem­plate that you can use to be part of a mas­sive letter-writing cam­paign to Oprah.

Yes, I’m sure she’s very dis­trac­ted by the hear­tsick tra­gedy of her Lea­dership Aca­demy for Girls in South Africa, but it may also wor­sen her thy­roid con­di­tion, as well as create a poten­tial adre­nal pro­blem. So THIS is the TIME to make a MOUNTAIN in her mail room. Go here: www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/letter-to-oprah-winfrey/

Please note that you can also use the above tem­plate let­ter to email her, but if we can ALSO send REAL LIVE let­ters as out­li­ned in the above page, that can make a HUGE VISUAL dif­fe­rence as to what we are trying to tell her.

Cuz it ain’t the one WE live on, dah’ling.

For a few years now, patients have repea­tedly writ­ten the Oprah show, beg­ging her to address the thy­roid scan­dal of deca­des of T4-only medi­ca­tion and the lousy TSH lab, both of which have left MILLIONS of patients with lin­ge­ring hypo symp­toms while our doc­tors proc­lai­med we were NORMAL…and about a FAR bet­ter treat­ment called natu­ral desic­ca­ted thy­roid and dosing by symp­toms, NOT the TSH.

And when she finally has a pro­gram which somewhat addres­ses the thy­roid issue this week, she allows her hallo­wed guest, Dr. Chris­tiane North­rup, to state “your symp­toms are actually your soul’s way of brin­ging dee­per issues to your atten­tion.” Hog­wash! And thy­roid patient Mary Sho­man has rightly proc­lai­med that “thy­roid disease is NOT your fault, des­pite what Dr. North­rup says.”

But the issue goes even further. Oprah implies, by her own expe­rience, that taking a month vaca­tion and eating fresh foods is enough to make one well from thy­roid disease?? Dou­ble hog­wash! Thy­roid patients seek to live some of the healthiest lifesty­les there are. All you have to do is observe the con­ver­sa­tions in most any inter­net thy­roid patient talk group, and you will see daily posts on the best sup­ple­ments to take, healthiest foods to eat, and best ways to de-stress our lives. We are ove­rall a VERY edu­ca­ted group of patients about health, and we prac­tice it. We HAVE to be in light of how poorly edu­ca­ted most of our doc­tors are about our thy­roid disease. And in spite of all the above, our thy­roid con­di­tion per­sists.

What has CHANGED our lives is lea­ving the scan­dal of T4-only treat­ment in the dust, and lear­ning about desic­ca­ted thy­roid like Armour, switching to it, and dosing accor­ding to the eli­mi­na­tion of symp­toms, NOT simply labs. We have also faced the fact that at least 50% of us have adre­nal fati­gue, which lea­ves us impa­tient and angry, with hea­daches and body aches, chro­nic back pain and body aches, a loss of pas­sion, and sleep issues. And we have tread new ground in our know­ledge on how to treat it, when many of our doc­tors pooh-pooh the rea­lity of adre­nal fatigue.

I love ya, Oprah, as do millions of women out there. But taking a month vaca­tion and eating fresh foods does NOT cure our thy­roid disease. So time will tell what went on with you! So now, all we can do is hope eter­nal that Oprah will get on the pla­net that the rest of us live on, and help us to spread the word as to why millions of thy­roid patients have been suf­fe­ring and about a far bet­ter treat­ment. If you can con­ti­nue to have per­sis­tence, you can email her here. STOP the thy­roid madness!

P.S. Go here to read thy­roid patient Anna’s humo­rous expe­rience with follo­wing the same kind of advice given on Oprah’s show.

At the heel of Oprah’s reve­la­tion that she has a thy­roid con­di­tion (see my blog post below) comes this article on Sep­tem­ber 13: Sta­tins: Doc­tors ignore patients’ com­plaints of reac­tions to drugs

Boy howdy, doesn’t THAT sound familiar!

Sure, it’s about a non-thyroid drug called a sta­tin, which has an adver­ti­sed pur­pose of lowe­ring your high cho­les­te­rol. But the infor­ma­tion MIRRORS the expe­rience of ALL thy­roid patients!! Namely, the article shows that doc­tors rarely believe that the pill you are on is to blame for your “real — or ima­gi­ned reactions”.

The article out­li­nes a study that invol­ved 650 patients who had com­plai­ned of par­ti­cu­lar reac­tions after taking their sta­tin. And the pro­blems these patients obser­ved are COMMON to being on sta­tins — muscle pro­blems, cog­ni­tive loss, and nerve pain called periphe­ral neu­ro­pathy (and my dear mother-in-law, who is on a sta­tin, has all three). And what they got across the board is that their doc­tors either denied or barely con­si­de­red that the sta­tin could be cau­sing the pro­blems which the patient com­plai­ned about!

And there’s a huge dou­ble whammy irony here. Namely, not only do thy­roid patients have this exact expe­rience when we are on T4-only meds and con­ti­nue to have hypo symp­toms that our doc­tors dis­miss, but WE ARE A CERTAIN BODY OF THOSE ON STATINS because of one of the key con­ti­nuing hypo symp­toms that our doc­tors dis­miss – high cholesterol.

Cli­ni­cal pre­sen­ta­tion has gone by the way­side in favor of a lazy worship of the infa­lli­bi­lity of pills.

.…if you will take the time to read here of what thou­sands of patients have found out about the medi­ca­tion you will PROBABLY be put on, and about the lab you will PROBABLY be dosed by.

For those who haven’t heard, Oprah announ­ced on Sep­tem­ber 10^th during her Good Mor­ning Ame­rica inter­view that she “blew her thy­roid out”. Now that also sounds sus­pi­ciously like she also has adre­nal fati­gue, but time will tell.

And Oprah will now join the club of an esti­ma­ted “billions” world­wide with thy­roid disease. But even worse, she may also be joi­ning the club of those who for nearly 50 years, have been put on the lousy T4-only medi­ca­tions (Synth­roid, Levoxyl, Levothy­ro­xine and others) and who have been terro­ri­zed with the TSH lab and it’s dubious and pathe­tic “nor­mal” range.

Yes Oprah, begin­ning in the 1960’s, doc­tors star­ting put­ting ALL of us on T4-only meds, and in the early 1970’s, dosing by the TSH lab. And NEITHER have wor­ked. Sure, some will state they felt bet­ter. But many will tell you that NOTHING chan­ged. And ALL, to one degree or another, have been left with a variety of hypothy­roid symp­toms while doc­tors have been proc­lai­ming that those VERY symp­toms had nothing to do with hypothy­roid since we were now “ade­qua­tely” treated.

But we have NEVER been “ade­qua­tely” trea­ted, Oprah. Doc­tors became cattle in the chu­tes of their pharmaceutically-financed medi­cal schools, blindly belie­ving that T4-only meds were wor­king and that the man-made TSH was the gold stan­dard of diag­no­sis and dosing…and igno­ring cli­ni­cal pre­sen­ta­tions which sho­wed the opposite.

And when we still com­plai­ned of symp­toms, we have been put on anti-depressants, sta­tins, anti-anxiety meds, and a variety of other pills to ban­daid our con­ti­nuing hypo symp­toms.

And we finally fought back Oprah. For the last 7+ years, patients like myself found out that there has always been a MUCH bet­ter treat­ment (desic­ca­ted thy­roid), MUCH bet­ter labs (free T3 and free T4) and much bet­ter dosing stra­tegy (by symp­tom eli­mi­na­tion). Our lives have become far bet­ter because of what we have lear­ned.

This web­site repre­sents the know­ledge of a large and cons­tantly gro­wing body of patients world­wide, and some wise doc­tors, which goes totally COUNTER to nearly 50 LOUSY years of piti­ful thy­roid treatment.

You, Oprah, are a megaphone of influence. And if you can take the time to read this web­site, you might play a huge role in hel­ping to change MILLIONS of lives. Because right now, the vast majo­rity of the medi­cal com­mu­nity does NOT get this, and is con­ti­nuing to keep patients SICK and TIRED and/or with con­ti­nuing hypothy­roid symp­toms of some kind. And YOU are going to be one, with your own con­ti­nuing list of symp­toms, if you don’t con­si­der what thy­roid patients are trying to tell you by nearly 50 years of LIVING it.