Well done The Telegraph!

[Churchie]

Well done to today's Telegraph for having another article on this unsexy disease. Raising more awareness amongst the public can't be anything but a good thing.

[LouiseRoberts]

link: telegraph.co.uk/women/women...

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[Angel_of_the_North]

And Mark Vanderpump is the guy who tells us that we have a somatoform disorder (we are mad) if our bloods are normal but we still complain of symptoms. What a two-faced $^&(*)@

[humanbean in reply to Angel_of_the_North]

I thought it was Tony Weetman who thought we were all mad. I hadn't realised Vanderpump was just the same.

[Angel_of_the_North in reply to humanbean]

I'm probably wrong, perhaps he doesn't agree with Weetman. But he was one of the people who decided that we should only get TSH tested and can't get NDT. I know Weetman comes across as totally awful (sort of the Prince of Endo Darkness). I'm sure someone here saw MV and had a bad experience (but again someone else had a good one). He's made some comments in Pulse...

[humanbean in reply to Angel_of_the_North]

Prince of Endo Darkness... I LOVE it!

[rosetrees]

We need lots of people to hop over and leave a comment on that article.

[Clutter]

Thanks for posting, Churchie. I'm absolutely gobsmacked about Mark Vanderpumps comment “It is a crude test,” and his desire to have women's TSH tested at 30! Not at all what I expected to hear from him.

[Churchie in reply to Clutter]

Hi clutter

Please could you tell me what a hemilobectomy is?

Thanks

Xx

[Clutter in reply to Churchie]

Churchie, it's removal of half the thyroid gland, partial thyroidectomy.

[Churchie in reply to Clutter]

Thanks

[Spareribs in reply to Clutter]

They usually say TSH is an 'exquisite' test - flummoxed too, <shrug smiley>

here's hoping for a u-turn then!

[Clutter in reply to Spareribs]

Spare, perhaps he's read Diogenes paper and accepts the premise. It's a welcome u-turn for sure

[helvella Administrator in reply to Spareribs]

Classic mis-interpretation.

The TSH tests have become exquisitely sensitive - meaning that they can fairly consistently measure incredibly low concentrations of the substance in blood. But that has got absolutely nothing to do with diagnosis and treatment of hypothyroidism - it simply means that the difference between totally suppressed TSH and "very low" TSH is an incredibly fine line with, possibly, little clinical relevance.

Rod

[helvella Administrator in reply to helvella]

That is, of course, meant to be misrepresentation of the test by the medics - not you, Spare!

[Spareribs in reply to helvella]

lol! - it's just that expression (whatever it means!) is daft!

from "exquisite" to "crude" - a bit of a difference!

then again Mr V goes onto say [the test] "does not take into account differences of height, gender or age" - eh?

reminds me that I could wake up tomorrow 6" taller and still be in 'normal' height range (but very odd for me)!

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Talk about being hidden away for not many people to see! It should be in their Health section.