symptoms tags

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.