Thyroid App

[ellarose1234]

Not sure if anyone will be interested but have listened to the facts on You Tube:

youtube.com/watch?v=XAKkqMq...(Not working as expected?)

Here is the App:

play.google.com/store/apps/...

It's free and worth taking a look at?

Probably more use to newbies?

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK]

It is a real shame but it looks to me to be useless.

You are forced to answer a series of questions and then invited to send your list of responses off to find out whether or not you are likely to have thyroid issue. The catch is that unless you do, you don't seem able to do anything else. And I am not sure my answers would be interpreted as being hypothyroid - I am not convinced of the rigour of the interrogation.

In fact, there is no built-in way of quitting - once you start you have to use a forcible termination if you do not wish to go through the questions again.

Rod

[ellarose1234 in reply to helvella]

Hmmm! Pretty useless then!

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK in reply to ellarose1234]

Unfortunately. I have given some thought to what a thyroid app could do - and the list I came up with is short. Most things are better done on a device with a larger screen for a start.

It could be useful for checking whether, say, Mercury Pharma levothyroxine is simply when the company name changed from Goldshield (which it is). That is the sort of thing that might be useful in your pocket/handbag. And reminders to take pills - but why something special for thyroid? Why not the best reminder app which will work whatever you are taking?

[daized]

If you go through the questionaire, it then offers to sell you a Thyroid Blood testing kit. it seems the entire app is one big marketting tool.... (Read some of the reviews on Play.com

[ellarose1234 in reply to daized]

Oh dear...beginning to wish I had never mentioned this. Sorry to waste everyone's time. Just that I am into "Apps" at the moment and most of them are very useful. Sadly this one isn't...apologies.

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK in reply to ellarose1234]

Don't feel bad - your post has now effectively warned quite a few people here.

[rosiebones in reply to ellarose1234]

It may have been great, it was certainly worth following up and it was good you aired it. I found the idea at least interesting so thank you.