1911 thyroid treatment 🐑

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[Jaydee1507 Administrator in reply to Hidden]

In a week? 😂

That's really remarkable. I often wonder how I would have fared thyroid wise if I was around a few hundred years ago. Strongly suspect I would have ended up in an asylum!

[Hidden in reply to Jaydee1507]

and then apparently gone home a week later on sheep thyroid good as new 😂

[Jaydee1507 Administrator in reply to Hidden]

We are clearly doing it wrong these days. How did they know how much sheeps thyroid to use though?

[Hidden in reply to Jaydee1507]

I think Blood tests > clinical signs has basically left so many improperly treated ☹️ I have no idea how they knew how much to take but I guess if blood tests hadnt even been imagined awareness of symptoms and signs would be so much more acute. The beginning of Barry Peatfield’s book he writes about people eating sheep thyroid sandwiches for breakfast and that sorting the problem… I guess it was just a case of “feeling tired today, I’ll have 2 sheep thyroid sandwiches today instead of 1” 🤔

[Jaydee1507 Administrator in reply to Hidden]

Clinical signs and examination of patients has all but ceased to exist. The doctor really just sits at desk looking at computer, sometimes sparing the time to look and maybe listen to what you are saying. If whatever it is that's ailing you isn't showing up in test, baring in mind they may not have ordered the correct test, then you're sunk. It's time that signs and symptoms of conditions got higher priority.

[Hidden in reply to Jaydee1507]

Absolutely, it's abysmal.

This attitude was REALLY highlighted in the BTA's Tweet criticising a small scale study that showed LT3 improves quality of life (QoL) outcomes... This was their reply: "Big proviso: the study is unblinded and QoL is the outcome. This is how supermarkets do research; scientists need to raise their game." Honestly, it's like they're saying the bit out loud they're meant to keep quiet... QoL as an outcome isn't important to them! You're nothing but a heap of blood tests to them. And as you say, blood tests that are often not even the right ones! 😪

[Josephineinamachine in reply to Hidden]

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[DippyDame in reply to Jaydee1507]

Trial and error I expect!

[DippyDame]

Reported in NY but it happened here...

rcpe.ac.uk/heritage/foundat...

Consider also William Ord, who in 1877 wrote a paper describing his suspicions, that thyroid issues were the cause of death. This, while he did post mortems on patients who had died after presenting with what we now know as symptoms of hypothyroidism.

Myxoedema madness ....or, " the insanity of myxeodema" described in the above cutting.

He started treating those patients with raw minced thyroid...it worked!

The cause hasn't changed, the treatment has!

Sadly , in the 21st century, understanding of the problem appears to have been better back then when clinical evaluation was the basis of diagnosis, rather than an almost total reliance on the unreliable marker that is TSH...which medics now maintain is the gold standard test.

A different type of madness

[Hidden in reply to DippyDame]

thank you so much for that additional info 🙂 agreed… blood tests in thyroid world appear to have sent us all on a wild goose chase 🪶

[DippyDame in reply to Hidden]

I doubt it's blood tests per se, but rather the way they are developed and analysed

[Hidden in reply to DippyDame]

Yes I think that's what I meant 😊

[Anthea55]

Fascinating! Thanks for researching and posting.

[Hidden in reply to Anthea55]

Must say I can't take credibility for researching, it was on my instagram, but felt it worth a repost here! Very interesting isn't!

[Imaaan]

Its really is upsetting to see how far back ndt was used yet never was offered as a treatment to me and so many others. Soo much heartache. Unforgivable!

[Hidden in reply to Imaaan]

ABSOLUTLEY!