with well over 100,000 members on here it’s a sad commentary that we are still struggling to get even 10,000 signatures
if you at U.K. citizen and haven’t already signed this extremely important petition please consider doing so now
petition.parliament.uk/peti...
previous posts with more info
Hi, I’m amazed that it’s taking so long to get 10K signatures. It only takes seconds to fill out the form, the verification email arrives instantly and only needs one click, it took 12 seconds from start to finish.
I’m trying to get it on Mumsnet, can anybody try too plz? I’m not familiar with their site or terms.
Thank you.
So are we - those who have signed it and posted about it here and elsewhere.
Unlike some petitions, I find it really is so easy to agree with. Even if the government agreed, there are many further steps before any research gets done. But we have to start somewhere.
Thanks for flagging this SD 👍
Maybe we should try to post a daily reminder as this might trigger more responses at this busy time of year.
Yes good plan
Total so far is 8,951.
I got my husband to agree to sign it , PLEASE if everyone just asked a husband , partner , son, daughter to sign we WILL get there 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻
If we could post it on facebook then I am sure we would get many more. I have only seen one post that enabled this, and I did share it, but it seems to have vanished from facebook again.
To Regenallotment and Rapunzel , someone must have heard, as when I opened the Petition page, facebook has been added now. Let's hope that helps quite a bit! Everyone get posting please! xx
Awesome 👏
Thyroidy Power! We got it! ( But not on Facebook for me, I'm not giving that disengaged metaweirdo a second glance...)
Agree with what you say Rapunzel , but some of it is useful to me. Hope you are well.
but some of it is useful to me
Ah nightingale. Doubtless some of it useful to me, too. Won't go there, nonetheless. I'd imagine that some stuff on there is useful to your son, too. What we do for our children, what what? My three thankfully well ATM. Season's Greetings lovely x
Best Wishes to you and yours Rapunzel . xx
anyone reading that hasn’t signed pls sign, we will all benefit 🙏🌱
I've signed this, but must admit I kept thinking about it and putting it on the "to do later" pile. I think it's because this isn't the first government petition I've signed about thyroid treatment, and sadly they never seem to change things. I think there was one a few years ago where the government response was something along the lines of "we're not going to change anything because most people are ok with current treatment". After 30+ years of being hypo, being belittled by doctors, having to fight for T3 and advocating for my own health it's difficult to feel positive that anything will ever change. But... I have signed and shared and I know this is a poor attitude. I know things have improved thanks to the tireless campaigning of people and groups like Thyroid UK and ITT. Just thought I might not be alone in feeling like I do and that might explain the lack of signatures.
AlisonL, Many of us have been around long enough to know about previous petitions. But...
If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again!
It only take s a few moments to sign. If we don't bother to sign, we are admitting defeat, and 'they' will have won.
If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again!
AlisonL I hear ya. You don't have a poor attitude, you have just got to the end of your tether. You and I and countless more are part of the group of 'others' not 'most' and it's only because of support such as this that we know one another exist. Besides, 20%, the oft touted number who don't get on with 'current treatment' is not a small number - look at the numbers on TUK HU; we are legion. Few lurk here if they feel well, with a few notable and lauded exceptions.
I think I'm still kicking @rse in the hope of preventing my children, with their poor hand of inherited genes, and their children from suffering my same fate: affording alternatives to the dread and utterly useless levo by the skin of my teeth and constantly worried, as alternatives disappear/get reformulated/are withdrawn/proscribed that I will be left with the one choice to prevent my demise...levo, levo or levo. In which case, I would very soon feel wretched enough to take that one-way ticket to Switzerland. I will not suffer like that ever again and having my GP recommend I go home and rejoice makes me want to take his lights out
Feck levo. Feck belittling doctors. But feck keeping quiet and going gently into that long goodnight. Cowa freaking bunga.
There are millions of people diagnosed with hypothyroidism in the UK, yet we are still struggling to reach the minimum 10,000 signatures.
What we really need, is to reach all the people who are not on this forum, believing that they are adequately treated for their hypothyroidism. And that all their ailments are nothing to do with their thyroid treatment, because that's what their doctor has told them.
9237 …. Creeping up 🙏
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Parliamentary petition for more thyroid research funding
Petition for better thyroid treatment next target 4000 signatures. Have you signed yet?
A very important petition re patient choice
