Incase you’re not aware…Professor Kristien Boelaert is confirmed President Elect of the British Thyroid Association.

[witchcat43]

twitter.com/btg_uob/status/...

There’s no hope for us…

[Marz]

Judging by the necklace wrinkles on her neck its possible she has a thyroid problem ! Perhaps we can be of help. 🌻

[witchcat43 in reply to Marz]

oh Marz I almost spat my tea out when I read that…thanks for the laugh, I really needed it 😂

[Marz in reply to witchcat43]

A Greek Doc in Crete said he always knew if a patient had a thyroid problem if he observed necklace type wrinkles on the neck.

Guess that was from the days when Docs observed you carefully ! The body busily signposting 🙃

[Margo in reply to witchcat43]

Hilarious!

[tattybogle in reply to Marz]

The current president SP had half his thyroid out for a ca. nodule a year ago , that didn't seem to help him be any more understanding of struggling thyroid patients ....we'll not so far anyway .

How often do they change presidents ? ie . is this change by any chance because SP feels crap now and needs levo ?? ( we can but dream ).. or is it just a routine re -election of new head .

[Marz in reply to tattybogle]

Really couldn't guess ! Think they should check out this forum for candidates next time ! If we are to have progress then she must be able to handle NICE 😊

[arTistapple in reply to tattybogle]

There is someone who keeps an eye on the BTA on the forum who has been saying for some time that this presidency was about to come to an end. TanyaJ?

I am intrigued about you knowing his personal medical history! I am always wishing thyroid issues on some of these people. However human nature being what it is, can make someone entrench their opinions even more strongly, in the face of contradiction. His illness could explain some rumoured ugly outbursts with patients.

[tattybogle in reply to arTistapple]

he posted about it on twitter last year, so it's public knowledge.

twitter.com/simonhspearce/s...

he had no thyroid issues other than a suspicious/ Ca. nodule that was removed by hemithyroidectomy . I don't think? he had RAI .

He had his attitude long before that and it hasn't changed since .

As far as i know ,he's made no mention in public of feeling unwell / becoming hypothyroid since the hemi thyroidectomy , or needing to go on levo. ( and i'm sure if he was on Levo he'd be shouting about if from the rooftops to confirm his view that it works for everyone).

personally i'm not sure i would trust him to be honest about it if he went on levo and didn't feel ok on it . His view that 'any remaining symptoms people think they have (once TSH is in range on levo) are due to 'something else, not thyroid' is pretty entrenched . It would be a massive climb down for him to say "i'm on levo now and it didn't make me feel better "

[arTistapple in reply to tattybogle]

Absolutely agree. Plenty of time yet for symptom development. He is only in his fifties. Wonder where he will end up looking for help? There won’t be anyone thoroughly trained enough to help. He and his ilk have seen to that.

[TaraJR in reply to tattybogle]

I'm pretty sure they elect a president every 4 years. Krish Chatterjee was there till 2019, and Simon Pearce since since then

[arTistapple in reply to TaraJR]

Sorry TaraJR. These nommes de guerre are difficult to remember.

[Jazzw]

I had to Google her to find out why this isn’t good news. I see she’s very much against the prescribing of T3 (or at least that’s the stance she took during a videoed debate).

Sigh.

[Staffsgirl in reply to Jazzw]

Bear in mind, as you say, it was the stance she was taking. I don’t think we can conclude she is necessarily against it.

[helvella Administrator in reply to Staffsgirl]

As I posted on the other thread, she did stand up and criticise the excessive cost of liothyronine.

Seems unlikely that someone who is wholly against it would have signed this paper.

This is the paper of which she was a co-author:

Liothyronine cost and prescriptions in England

Peter N Taylor

Salman Razvi

Ilaria Muller

John Wass

Colin M Dayan

Krishna Chatterjee

Kristien Boelaert

Published:January, 2019

DOI: doi.org/10.1016/S2213-8587(...

thelancet.com/journals/land...

[tcpace]

My daughter saw her and Professor Franklyn at the QE Birmingham. Both were very much proponents of the "TSH is the gold standard" meme and couldn't accept that someone diagnosed as unequivocally hypothyroid by the late Dr S could possibly be hypo if their TSH is on the high side but in range.

[Alanna012 in reply to tcpace]

I honestly don't know why these people bother going into medicine, it's like they actually wanted a career in politics, but settled for medicine instead.