Dr Sarah Myhill has a new book on thyroid - see amazon or her website for details.

[Santolina]

Thyroid issues globally are being ignored by the medical profession, except for Sarah Myhill and Jannie Bowthorpe's 'Stop the thyroid madness'.

Generics are unstable, making us unstable. NDT is not discussed or approved of by the powerful pharmaceutical corporates. It collects the vulnerable and continues to rake in immoral profits for unregulated drugs.

[edited by admin to add book title and link to Dr Myhill's website (where you can read the first chapter free). The Underactive Thyroid: Do it yourself because your doctor won't'; Dr Sarah Myhill & Craig Robinson drmyhill.co.uk/wiki/My_Book... ]

[RedApple Administrator]

Santolina 'Thyroid issues globally are being ignored by the medical profession, except for Sarah Myhill and Jannie Bowthorpe's'

For clarity, Dr Myhill is a genuinely UK medically qualified practitioner. Janie Bowthorpe is not.

Dr Myhills website is here drmyhill.co.uk/ I don't see any book on thyroid listed on her site. Can you give us more information please.

[Santolina in reply to RedApple]

I just ordered it on amazon uk

[RedApple Administrator in reply to Santolina]

Title please?

[RedApple Administrator]

Santolina, 'Generics are unstable, making us unstable.'

I don't know where in the world you reside (perhaps add that into your profile), but here in the UK, levothyroxine and liothyronine have to conform to strict regulations (MHRA). So 'instability' of thyroid medications is not usually an issue here.

[Santolina in reply to RedApple]

the pharmacists association has been flagging unstable generics for decades. Levothyroxine is one of five that fall into this category. It's all part & parcel of the unfortunate erosion of infrastructure that benefits the corporates.

[RedApple Administrator in reply to Santolina]

Which pharmacists association are you referring to? UK? USA?

[Santolina in reply to RedApple]

UK

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK in reply to Santolina]

Did you mean this one?

The NPA

The National Pharmacy Association is the representative voice of independent community pharmacies across the UK and a leading provider of services to the entire sector.

npa.co.uk/the-npa/

[Santolina in reply to helvella]

I don't know - I just assumed there was just one. Also, this was verified by two medical journalists, one out of Brussels and one based in London. It appears that some of their findings that were accessible two years ago, has disappeared ... somewhere.

[RedApple Administrator in reply to Santolina]

' flagging unstable generics for decades. Levothyroxine is one of five that fall into this category.'

In which case, please provide a direct link to this. It's important to validate such information, so that you don't appear to be spreading unsubstantiated gossip.

These days, we don't have 'generics' of levothyroxine in the UK. All are branded and under strict MHRA scrutiny.

[Santolina in reply to RedApple]

yes, you're quite right & I just did a search and the link is missing. It was there two years ago ...

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK]

Please would you explain exactly what you mean by "Generics are unstable"?

The most significant NDT, Armour Thyroid, is made by one of the largest pharmaceutical giants - Allergan. Who are in turn owned by the even bigger AbbVie (since 2020).

[Santolina in reply to helvella]

Armour is the ONLY one that's stable. When they have a manufacturing hiccup, they withdraw and re-configure.

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK in reply to Santolina]

You said:

NDT is not discussed or approved of by the powerful pharmaceutical corporates.

It seems a little odd to claim that and then say that Armour Thyroid is stable because its manufacturer, a powerful pharmaceutical corporate does very much the right thing when there is a hiccup. It clearly must be discussed, manufactured, marketed.

[Santolina in reply to helvella]

I didn't say that.

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK in reply to Santolina]

Your original post included:

Generics are unstable, making us unstable. NDT is not discussed or approved of by the powerful pharmaceutical corporates. It collects the vulnerable and continues to rake in immoral profits for unregulated drugs.

Or am I misinterpreting what you didn't say?

[Santolina in reply to helvella]

that's shocking - it's not what I wrote. Could it be that predictive text has over-ridden and I didn't notice ?! if so, that's shocking. So ... natural dessicated thyroxine - of which Armour is the main manufacturer - is the only one that worked for me. We can't get it in Europe and I won't buy from the Far East as I don't trust the chain of verification. I now supplement the bog-standard levothryoxine with Metavive - a glandular. With trial and error, this works well. But it did take six months to get the balance/dosage right. Frequent blood tests.

[RedApple Administrator in reply to Santolina]

'Could it be that predictive text has over-ridden and I didn't notice ?'

Personally, I've never seen predictive text substitute whole paragraphs like that. Usually it's a single word or very short phrase that gets substituted.

[Santolina in reply to RedApple]

yes, I agree. odd

[tattybogle in reply to Santolina]

if you click on 'more' ~ directly underneath your original post~ you can edit the text to say what you did mean to write.

[Santolina]

'The Underactive Thyroid: Do it yourself because your doctor won't'; Dr Sarah Myhill & Craig Robinson

[RedApple Administrator in reply to Santolina]

Thanks. Here's the link to it on her website (where you can read the first chapter free). drmyhill.co.uk/wiki/My_Book...

[Jaydee1507 Administrator in reply to Santolina]

The co author is Craig Robinson. Nothing to do with Jannie Bowthorpe and STTM.

[jimh111]

Do you mean this book? amazon.co.uk/Underactive-Th...

[radd]

Santolina,

Dr Myhill's book isn't out for release until 24.11.2022.

Others have already supplied the links.