helvella's documents

[helvella]

A list of documents I have assembled which could be of interest or use to thyroid patients.

Some document names have recently been changed (albeit just a single character in several cases). And others I have removed for various reasons.

helvella - A brief thyroid glossary

A short document to help newcomers understand the basic concepts.

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helvella - Abbreviations and Acronyms

An extensive document containing most of the abbreviations and acronyms you will find in the HealthUnlocked Thyroid UK forum and elsewhere.

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16/02/2022

The information above have now been incorporated into my Vade Mecum document.

helvella - Vade Mecum for Thyroid

The term vade mecum means:

1. A referential book such as a handbook or manual.

2. A useful object, constantly carried on one’s person.

Please don't get put off by the number of pages!

Not everything is in this one document - my major medicines document is still separate!

From Dropbox:

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From Google Drive:

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helvella - Accessing Medical Records (UK)

Introduction and links regarding access your own medical records within the UK.

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helvella - Causes of Interference with TSH, T4 and T3 Tests

A brief list of possible reasons interference with thyroid blood tests (TSH, Free T4 and Free T4) which could cause misleading results.

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helvella - Data Matrix Codes

A brief overview of the codes which appear on most packaged medicines in the UK, the EU and in many other countries.

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helvella - Digital Object Identifiers (DOI)

A brief overview of the use of Digital Object Identifiers as permanent links to online documents.

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helvella - Dosing by Age and Weight

A discussion on the use of formulaic prescribing based on age and weight of patients.

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helvella - Estimation of Levothyroxine Requirement in Adults

A spreadsheet with active formulas which work out possible levothyroxine requirements including NICE NG154 guidelines.

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helvella - Famous People With Thyroid Disorders

A list of some famous people, some living – some historic, known to have thyroid disorders.

People are added as and when I think to do so. There is little or no rhyme or reason to who is included.

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helvella - Fine Dose Adjustment for Levothyroxine

Some suggestions as to how you can adjust your levothyroxine dose by very small amounts.

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helvella - Historical Context of Thyroid Treatment in the UK

Extracts of possible interest mostly from The Chemist and Druggist. These documents are currently still being developed.

Pre-1900 document

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1900-1949 document

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1950-1999 document

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2000 onwards

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helvella - Historical Prices of Liothyronine Tablets in the UK

Showing the changes to the price or Liothyronine (T3) tablets in the UK in recent years.

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helvella - History of Thyroid Hormone Medicines in the UK

A collection of (hopefully) quite interesting information about thyroid hormone medicines, companies, brand names/trade marks, and much else.

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helvella - Iodine Content of Thyroid Hormones

An explanation of the amount of iodine in the principle thyroid hormones.

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helvella - Iodine Patch Test

Why the iodine patch test is not appropriate for indicating iodine status.

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helvella - Iron Document

Information collected and linked regarding iron and iron supplementation.

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helvella - Jostel Index Calculator

A simple spreadsheet for calculating the Jostel Index.

This is an Excel spreadsheet but is likely to work in other spreadsheet software.

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helvella - Levothyroxine sodium - Anhydrous vs. Pentahydrate

An explanation as to why sometimes the levothyroxine ingredient or content of says "anhydrous" and sometimes not.

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helvella - Micrograms Milligrams and Grams

An introduction to some of the units used in thyroid medicine.

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helvella - Prescription Requirements by Country

Details of the need for prescriptions to obtain thyroid hormone medicines in several countries. There are many gaps in the information.

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helvella - Range Calculator Spreadsheet

A spreadsheet for calculating a test result as a percentage through the reference interval (range).

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helvella - Selenium Document

Information collected and linked regarding selenium and selenium supplementation.

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helvella - The end of Thyroid BP

A published letter which highlights the attitude regarding desiccated thyroid shortly before it was dropped from the British Pharmacopoeia.

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helvella - Thyroid Hormone Medicines

Updated 2023/01.30

I have a blog page which links to my medicines document. It offers at least two different ways of accessing it. And adds a QR code to make it easier for phones.

Please go to my medicines document via this link in future:

helvella - Thyroid Hormone Medicines[/i

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helvella - Thyroid Hormone Packaging

Some images of the packaging of several thyroid hormone medicines from various countries including the UK.

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A PDF Conversion of Dr Lowe’s Thyroid Science Website

A conversion of some of Dr Lowe’s website into a PDF to help make it accessible.

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Just adding: Of course there will be mistakes, things missing, etc. in these documents. Please do let me know if and when you find them.

[LindaC]

Thank you so much, helvella - totally appreciated 100%.

[Jacs]

That’s fantastic Hellvella. Thanks for the summary post & also for doing the research & helping those of us who aren’t as capable - it’s very much appreciated

[Jacs in reply to Jacs]

Though I wish I could access the PDF of Dr Lowe - any suggestions why it doesn’t work for me?

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK in reply to Jacs]

It is big. About 56 megabytes.

One possibility is that you are simply not allowing long enough for it to download.

I have just checked and it works for me.

Do you get a prompt when you click on the link?

What sort of device are you using?

Can anyone else let me know if it is working for them?

[radd in reply to helvella]

Yes, working for me, all 828 pages!

Thanks for all this hard work Hel, it's really helpful.

[Adam10]

Brilliant. Thanks Helvella.

Could thyroid UK publish this in a guide? It’s worth it’s own publication or booklet.

I find it difficult to download documents from Healthunlocked.

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK in reply to Adam10]

The downloads are not actually coming from HealthUnlocked - they are all in DropBox.

I know you will get a page popup, something like:

Redirect Notice

Looks like you clicked

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If you do not want to visit that page, you can close this browser tab.

That is just to give you the opportunity to see where a link is taking you and let you decide whether or not to continue. If you accept that warning, it should prompt what you want to do - view or save - and then do that.

Your experience is, of course, going to depend on whether you are doing this on a phone (IOS or Android), tablet (IOS, Android), computer (MacOS, Windows, Linux, Google OS, etc.), or something else.

(If I have made a mistake with any links, do let me know.)

[Framboise]

A very useful compilation helvella, thank you !

[Localhero]

Wow. Thank you so much for your dedication to this helvella !

[tattybogle]

well .. i'm darned if i know how you have time to make any bread.. even if it is with neanderthal grains.. Thanks so much for all your efforts

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK in reply to tattybogle]

Must say, though, that I enjoy making my own bread - and now I have identified flours that I like using, am going through lots of experimentation.

[tattybogle in reply to helvella]

recommend building woodfired oven in garden (tastes even better)... you do need a willing 'fire stoker' though and a pile of nice ash logs

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK in reply to tattybogle]

You obviously haven't been reading that wood fires are among the worst pollution sources in the country!

I know the story below is about heating by wood fire, but I can't see an oven being that much better, except it doesn't need to run for as many hours a week.

Wood burning at home now biggest cause of UK particle pollution

Fires used by just 8% of population but cause triple the particle pollution of traffic, data shows

theguardian.com/environment...

Though I would like to try a wood fired oven...

[tattybogle in reply to helvella]

Trust me .. that's only true if you burn badly seasoned wood and don't have a proper baffle at the top of the burner to reburn the secondary gasses. Far too many people making shonky wood burners and selling wood they chopped down 6 months ago.

Do it right and it's perfectly 'Eco' as long as you keep planting more trees than you chop down , and look after them properly while they grow. ..... just need a REALLY big garden

We used to heat a big building (with just 1 hour a day burn in a tiny fire box) with a very efficient swedish tiled woodburner (bit like a storage heater) .. it did the hot water too..

[Zephyrbear in reply to helvella]

Ash wood wet or ash wood dry...A King shall warm his slippers by...

[mandy-white in reply to helvella]

Do you use a bread machine ?

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK in reply to mandy-white]

No - though I have in the past.

I wish that bread machines were more flexible. I prefer a slow rise which most bread machines can't do.

[mandy-white in reply to helvella]

I can not get an edible loaf of bread from my bread machine. Have you shared on here how you make yours ? Xxxx

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK in reply to mandy-white]

No - I'm a rank amateur - there are lots of good videos on YouTube!

[Bearo]

Much appreciated.

[knitwitty]

Thank you so much, a fantastic resource to have handy.

[Delgor]

Wonderful - so informative. Thank you so much!

[Jules2194]

Thanks for these. I look forward to educating myself further😊

[Lovecake]

Thank you. Absolutely brilliant and really helpful ☺️