Patients and advo­ca­tes from around the world are doing a bang-up job trying to spread the word about desic­ca­ted thy­roid and pro­per thy­roid care. This page will con­ti­nually have new glo­bal infor­ma­tion added as I receive it. Use the Con­tact Me form to send me your info.

February 2009: Read Sheila Turner’s infor­ma­tion that gives hope about get­ting Armour presc­ri­bed by Endoc­ri­no­lo­gists in the UK: http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/relationship-between-the-RCP-and-MHRA/ (See other Feb. 2009 entries below)

February 2009: This month pro­ved to be straight out of a horror movie for UK patients. The Royal College of Phy­si­cians announ­ced that thy­ro­xine is the ONLY treat­ment for hypothy­roi­dism. You can read about it here:  www.opednews.com/articles/The-Royal-College-of-Physi-by-Janie-Bowthorpe-090210 – 698.html

Then, we find out that Sheila Tur­ner, UK’s thy­roid patient advo­cate for UK-TPA, had her Armour taken away. Read about it here.

Next comes Sheila Turner’s and Eric K. Pritchard’s bri­lliant res­ponse to the RCP:  http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/uk-tpas-response-to-the-rcp/

January 2009:  Lyn Mynott has announ­ced that Thy­roid UK has been awar­ded a grant from the Lottery’s “Awards for All” to help finish the log cabin they are buil­ding for their head­quar­ters. And in their first annual report, they state that some patients are repor­ting some NHS doc­tors presc­ri­bing Armour. Con­grats to Thy­roid UK!

March 2008–Thy­roid Patient Advocacy-UK (TPA-UK) has writ­ten two bri­lliant res­pon­ses to the Bri­tish Thy­roid Asso­cia­tion, and to all NHS endoc­ri­no­lo­gists and Pri­mary Care Trusts etc, about Armour and the use of desic­ca­ted thy­roid. Both can be used to take to your doc­tor: Go here and here

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***Here is a post from a gal in Ire­land on how to get Armour in the UK: 

I’m in N. Ire­land and I get my armour presc­ri­bed by my GP on a named-patient basis, and it doesn’t cost me anything as i have the NHS exemp­tion cer­ti­fi­cate http://www.thyroiduk.org/ Accor­ding to the MHRA, a GP in the UK is allo­wed to presc­ribe any of the natu­ral thy­roids on a “named patient basis” on the NHS or pri­va­tely. Your doc­tor can give you a nor­mal green presc­rip­tion (FP10) and write Armour Thy­roid on it, (or any of the others). Then your local che­mist can con­tact: Idis World Medi­ci­nes, Mill­bank House, 171 – 185 Ewell Road, Sur­bi­ton, Surrey KT6 6AX. Tel: 020 8410 0700/ Fax: 020 8410 0800. Email: prodinfo@idis.co.uk or idis@idis.co.uk for orders. Web­site: http://www.idis.co.uk. If your doc­tor or phar­ma­cist needs infor­ma­tion from them, they must set up an account first, but they are not obli­ged to purchase anything. You just need to per­suade your doc­tor that you need Armour because the synthe­tic hor­mone does not suit you. Ask him for a trial, at least. (And remem­ber that a trial should allow you to raise from the ini­tial intro­duc­tory dose up to 3 grain) This com­pany imports Armour and adds a very small admi­nis­tra­tion charge.

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Click here for the August 7th, 2006 let­ter, writ­ten by thy­roid patient advo­cate Sheila Tur­ner, and sent to 36,000 Gene­ral Prac­ti­tio­ners in UK, plus every Endoc­ri­no­lo­gist and their Regis­trars, and Junior Hos­pi­tal Doc­tors. Why? To cur­tail the con­ti­nuous non-factual and mis­lea­ding infor­ma­tion about desic­ca­ted thy­roid. Sheila has a thy­roid advo­cacy site wor­king to inc­rease awa­re­ness for pro­per diag­no­sis and appro­priate treat­ment for this disease. See her link below.

Also, UK’s SheilaTurner’s web­site for down­loa­da­ble & prin­ta­ble info to give to your doc
www.armourinfo.freeuk.com

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WEBSITES FROM AROUND THE WORLD:

Ger­many: www.kit-online.org/ crea­ted by Sabine

France: www.geocities.com/thyroide crea­ted by Susanne

UK: tpa-uk.org.uk crea­ted by Sheila

UK: www.thyroiduk.org crea­ted by Lyn

UK: thyroid-disease.org.uk crea­ted by Dawn

UK: www.thyroidresearch.com crea­ted by Edna with a wealth of infor­ma­tion on artic­les and research rela­ted to thyroid

UK: http://www.well-women.com crea­ted by Marianne with a focus on women and thy­roid health


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