Happy Father's Day, guys

[Eddie83]

If we have any guys here with newbie thyroid issues, note that Izabella Wentz recently posted this updated Father's Day article about men and thyroid issues.

thyroidpharmacist.com/artic...

[Eddie83]

Tend to agree. The most authoritarian, inflexible docs I've met, have been male.

[clubby29 in reply to Eddie83]

Hi there probably is a stack of them out there, problem is I think it’s seen as a female problem. The first GP I had said it was very very very unlikely for a man to have thyroid issues. I raised the question of hashimotos and he looked it up on google and said no definitely not. I have had every blood test going in the last 7 years and still my endo doesn’t really get it. You’ve gotta laugh

[Eddie83 in reply to clubby29]

When you're REALLY sick, it's not a laughing matter! The stats I've read say that the male:female ratio for thyroid problems is 1:8. After I had had it with MDs, I went to a naturopath and got a proper diagnosis. The extent of MD ignorance about how to test and fix thyroid problems, is huge. Most of these guys don't even look at thyroid antibodies when someone comes into their office with thyroid symptoms, and most of them are stuck in the TSH/T4 diagnosis/treatment fallacy.

[Eddie83]

One of my favorite sites that mentions the 300+ symptoms of thyroid disorders, has a lengthy section on Menstrual Disorders, which includes menopause. Of course MDs don't read this, they probably consider it "anecdotal".

hypothyroidmom.com/300-hypo...