We have today reached 100,001 members on our online community! This goes to show how much this community is needed and how big the problem of thyroid disease really is.
I'd like to say a HUGE THANK YOU to all the admin who work tirelessly answering questions and keeping an eye on the community. I would also like to thank all members of this community. Many of you become so well informed that you are then able to help new members with their queries. Without the admin and the members, this community would not be able to function as it does and thousands of people would not be able to gain the support they need.
Thanks also, goes to HealthUnlocked. Thyroid UK helped HealthUnlocked design this platform and our community and without them, this community would not exist.
I have huge admiration for you all - thank you so much.
Lyn Mynott
CEO
Thyroid UK
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lynmynott
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Congratulations. I've been keeping an eye on this milestone for a few weeks. I remember the early days when everything was done by post. Thanks to the team for many years of hard work and support and achievement.
I can remember working in my dining room and sharing the computer and laptop with Louise, depending on who needed online access! We were so happy to be able to help start this online community with HealthUnlocked. I remember meeting Matt from HealthUnlocked at a conference in London and the rest is history!
It is due to you, Lyn and some others who actually got together initially and that you had to use the facilities of your garden shed to start off TUK. I think you're family, too, had put in an enormous amount of help/support.
I do hope that members on Healthunlocked TUK also join Thyroiduk itself, so that it will enable you and assistants to not worry about the upkeep of up-to-date equipment:, travelling costs involved in bringing the attention to the masses, i.e. The Lords etc.
I do hope, too, that Thyroiduk is able to pay their staff a going rate. ( I would think that at times that loads of unpaid hours are givin) to forward the 'change attitudes' to the diagnosis and treatment of hypothyroid people.).
Not necessarily ..... people can seek to simply broaden their knowledge and understanding of their diagnosis without necessarily being dissatisfied with their treatment; likewise to access answers to a particular question; and others seek to be part of a larger group of people with the same condition simply because they feel isolated by being the only person they know, with their disorder. There are many people who join and never write anything from which we can assume different things. Yes there are certainly those who are dissatisfied and vocal, but you can't extrapolate from those, that everyone is.
Where is it suggested above by Lyn that everyone on this forum is dissatisfied with their treatment?
Yet again you seek to analyse a post, primarily with a critical eye.
Advice is one thing....
This is a patient to patient support forum which is greatly appreciated by thousands of us, not a platform for critical evaluation.
Here, we are all simply patients seeking a way forward and, I guess I speak for most members here, hugely grateful to lynmynott and her team for all the work they do on our behalf.
Without TUK I would be very ill indeed and I know I'm not alone. I may be sticking my neck out here but I think your negative comments are unjustified and unfair.
I was confused by this post too but I think it was in response to a post that has now been deleted and not to me. Thank you for your kind comments though.
Congratulations to Thyroid UK on their first 100,000 members! This is a fantastically useful forum to so many people, and helps so many to feel more in control of their own bodies, lives and health. Long may it continue!
Congratulations and thank you all so much for all your hard work in setting up ThyroidUK and the forum. This forum is such a great resource for us all.
I was pleased to discovered thyroiduk myself. I was given answers to my questions from knowledgeable people here and learned a lot about being hypo. for which I am grateful.
A few days ago I fell and broke my wrist so I am only reading posts atm. typing with one finger on my left hand isn’t easy but it isn’t stopping me from coming here every day to keep up.
Thyroiduk is such an important resource, long may it continue. x
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