Interview with Michael Rosen

[TSH110]

The Thyroid Trust have posted their interview with Michael Rosen on Utube:

thyroidtrust.org/24-questio...

Or

youtu.be/dBmwRpsUPQM(Not working as expected?) #TTT24Q

I can’t see any post about it on here but apologies if it’s already been posted.

It’s very good.

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I feel sad for him that he was reduced from 200 (where he felt great!) To 125 and is symptomatic again. 😞

[knitwitty]

An excellent video.I have always been a big fan of Michael Rosen, I often used his poetry when I was a primary school teacher .I fear, based on personal experience , that there are now fewer doctors ( than when Michael was diagnosed ) who are able to diagnose hypothyroidism based on the myriad of symptoms that patients present with, which when added together point to obvious hypothyroidism.

This may be in part due to the fact that you are only allowed to discuss one symptom at a time when visiting the doctor and they never get a chance to look at the whole symptom picture, and partly due to the fact that they don't recognise many of the symptoms of hypothyroidism.

There does seem to be a complete over reliance on the TSH blood test to the exclusion of everything regarding how the patient feels as Michael Rosen so eloquently demonstrates.

[ShatteredofLee]

Really moving interview. I felt he put his finger on it when he described that ‘depressed emotions’ state of hypothyroidism. And saddened for the lost years where a sufferer sinks into themselves (it’s happened to me). I’m very keen to raise awareness of the physical connections to mental states. I’m pleased to say I’ve just heard my article, ‘butterfly in the room’, has been accepted by Therapy Today. This should help raise awareness amongst counsellors and psychotherapists about hypo and hyperthyroidism. Michael was lucky to find that doctor who diagnosed him. Yet in the same way, if a client presents for counselling it’s important that mental health professionals understand too what physical issues might be driving depression for example. So glad I found this site, thank you!

[TSH110 in reply to ShatteredofLee]

Yes it really chimes with me I was in a pitiful state by the time I actually got someone to listen and take my suggestion that I had a thyroid problem seriously. I felt like a “thing” by this stage as for the depression - when that doctor who did listen initially suggested antidepressants for it (I said it was the depression that had made me see him - forgetting the shed loads of other hideous symptoms I was suffering by this juncture) I just said it’s got well beyond antidepressants being able to help, this is FAR more serious. . Because I was so ill I had I lost my ability to have any nuance in my communication but thankfully he teased out of me a lot of information that made him pretty concerned and he acted fast and basically saved my life. It is in fact quite interesting in retrospect to think about what a severe lack and excess of thyroid hormones actually does to a person’s mind. Michael summed it up perfectly and the insidious nature of it so that you just accept the degeneration without really questioning it. That I’m and in my case when I did question it I was fobbed off with other ludicrous explanations as to why i felt so unwell, with all the different symptoms just seen in isolation and my family history of thyroid disorder completely ignored. One test was all I needed but it took over 10 years to get anyone to do it. Your article sounds very interesting indeed. Please post the link once it’s published as I’d very much like to read it I think it will chime with my experiences. I had a hybrid kind of thyroid disorder atropic autoimmune thyroiditis it has more in common antibody wise with Graves’ disease, there is no goitre and eventually the thyroid is destroyed and bout of hypothyroidism become the dominant whereas initially I believe I was over active in the main. It explains not eating for three days and never feeling hungry, being quite thin, having so much energy it used to drive me nuts - I’d cycle 100 miles and still not feel like I had done anything so I’d go and run eight miles and feel a bit better. I just thought it was normal 😱

[ShatteredofLee]

I feel for you that it took so long to get that diagnoses. It shouldn’t be like this. I hope Michaels interview will help medical professionals sit up and take notice. Yes I’d be delighted to post the article when it comes out!

[TSH110]

Thanks 😉 if you could PM me with the link to your article that would be grand 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽