BTF Thyroid & menopause webinar (6/6/23) - Link to recording

[J972]

 helvella shared details of the above webinar and I had every intention of joining it live, but, life intervened.

Fortunately I’ve been shared a link to the recording, thus:

btf-thyroid.org/meet-the-ex...

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[helvella Administrator]

Thanks for posting that.

[TiggerMe Ambassador]

Hmmm.... liothyronine didn't get a mention!! 😳

email sent to point out the gapping hole😁

[J972 in reply to TiggerMe]

Was it me or did they seem particularly wedded to the idea that the TSH holds the key to diagnosis and symptom control?

[TiggerMe Ambassador in reply to J972]

Absolutely! TSH and adjusting Levo and also a bit about TSH naturally gets higher as we age... and also often puts itself right if left untreated 😱

TSH and age

[pennyannie in reply to J972]

It wasn't you -

probably because the sole focus was on just tracking the TSH :

No - I was left feeling that it was all so, so difficult = ?????

[mrskiki in reply to J972]

lots of average graphs and numbers thrown up on screen but I can’t say I learned anything.

On the other side of the spectrum- Can’t wait for the thyroid uk one to go up as the genetics and t3 conversion was really interesting but I can’t remember it all.

[mrskiki in reply to J972]

I was a bit surprised they said we were probably all a bit iodine deficient too as I hadn’t realised that.

And selenium wasn’t that much help.

I understood that our se intake in UK had dropped a bit with foods imported from non se rich soils.

I’m sure I saw a program where they analyse content by pulverising food before analysing, so for nuts unless you’re teeth and digestion are exceptional I wonder how much you really get from their suggested 2 brazils, even se rich ones?

[buddy99]

For some reason this really got my gills up. Possibly because it was so focused on TSH and seemed to emphasize that symptoms are NOT a good diagnostic tool. Maybe I have heard just that so, so many times when I suffered with so many symptoms (especially when T4 was lowered yet again), that now that my TSH is quite low, it drives me wild to listen to "experts" who completely deny my reality, which is that symptom based treatment was a total game changer for me. In the end I don't know whether this will be good or bad for my body. Maybe I am focusing on feeling so much better now and to heck with the consequences. I really don't know. Too much conflicting information. I hope it will get figured out with solid, irrefutable scientific evidence some day.

[Purplebum]

I only watched for 30 minutes and felt the speakers (whilst experts!) came across as very patronising and why so many graphs of nothingness? I was not impressed at all, so I switched off.

[mrskiki in reply to Purplebum]

I have seen a few webinars from that endo now, and she did not come over as very empathetic.