Could we post links to "classic posts" that really helped you ?
My pitch
Just "found" this gem of a post from 3 years ago ... saved
Thankyou humanbean and helvella and the group
healthunlocked.com/thyroidu...
Just "found" this gem of a post from 3 years ago ... saved.
Fabulous reading for newer sufferers like me.
How dangerous is too much?
plantar fasciitis ... (feet, heal and calf pain)
Digestive problems and damage
Poor treatment of woman's health...my Mums 25 years in
Thankyou
I have been around too long. At one and the same time, I remember unbelievable numbers of threads. And forget so many - at least fail to recall if nothing triggers a memory.
I'll likely easily recall some specific thread which has little interest to our members. Or miss some of the most obvious and useful ones.
Because of this, I am probably one of the absolute worst to "revive" old threads - at least, to choose which ones to revive.
Mostly we wouldn't want to see new discussion on threads that haven't been touched in years. In general, if I were posting about an old thread in this way, I would close the old thread to replying to prevent discussion splitting between a new thread and the referenced old thread.
Also, an awful lot of old threads will contain information which was true, or believed to be true, at the time, but things have moved on.
If you post links, it can be really, really helpful to post more than the bare link. To make an example of the link on your post:
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Fear of thyroid hormones
This post is aimed at people who are taking Levo or NDT or T3 or any combination of these, or who should be taking Levo or NDT or T3 but aren't.
I often read posts on this forum where it is clear to me that the writer is frightened of thyroid hormones and they appear to be under the impression that these hormones might be deadly in some circumstances.
healthunlocked.com/thyroidu...
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I have taken the post subject and put that in bold and italic.
I have taken the first two paragraphs and put them below the subject line, it italic. This gives a flavour of what you will find if you follow the link. Sometimes it would be better to quote something else, or write a new sentence or two as an introduction.
And then the link. Remember that the link will be truncated when appears, like the attached image. So readers cannot see the link ends with "fear-of-thyroid-hormones".
In summary:
You (or someone else) can post referring to an old thread.
Do not be surprised if we turn off replying on the old thread.
Please do your best to explain why members should look, and what they will find.
And please avoid reviving threads which are obviously out of date.
Thankyou Helvella for the wise words and organisational guidance
It always takes me ages to remember how to find saved posts - you click on the green home button and they on on the left hand side menu ...
ctrl b makes bold ctr i makes it italic
Memory loss success, B12 injections by Zmalp in Pernicious Anaemia Society 2 months old
"I’m now posting an update in case it helps anyone else in his position. In summary he had experienced symptoms over a couple of decades since he was twenty which we now recognise as slowly developing B12 deficiency and autoimmune thyroiditis. After 4 years of misdiagnosis he was finally diagnosed with autoimmune thyroiditis and treated but it didn’t resolve his cognitive and memory problems and these continued to deteriorate. Against GP advice we trialled B12 injections at loading dose levels. After 3, we knew we’d found the missing link. Several months on and he’s like himself again, has been able to go back to his original profession, and his memory continues to keep improving."
This is one of helvella 's posts that I think is very useful - I find the graphs very helpful, but need a reminder from time to time. There may be a more recent thread with the same info but I haven't bookmarked it :
healthunlocked.com/thyroidu...
A couple of links on the same subject, but from thyroidpatients.ca :
thyroidpatients.ca/2020/07/...
thyroidpatients.ca/2020/07/...
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On a completely different topic - text emojis/smileys in posts that, personally, I prefer to the newer ones supplied by HU :
healthunlocked.com/cllsuppo...
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A link to a page with an alternative version of the HU help :
If you ever want to contact HU help/support without going through the standard, "answer a thousand questions" link, their email address is :
support@healthunlocked.com
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If you ever want to know the date a post was posted, rather than being told it was written "2 weeks ago" or "5 years ago" or "1 hour ago" or whatever, you can put your cursor over where it says one of those (don't click) and it will tell you the day, the date and the time a post was actually posted. This works for posts, replies, and in chat.
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Going back to useful threads :
Iodine gets a lot of mentions on the forum, and tattybogle has written an excellent post on the subject :
healthunlocked.com/thyroidu...
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More useful stuff from tattybogle :
healthunlocked.com/thyroidu...
healthunlocked.com/thyroidu....
healthunlocked.com/thyroidu....
healthunlocked.com/thyroidu....
healthunlocked.com/thyroidu...
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A useful link showing a graph of the distribution of TSH :
web.archive.org/web/2004060...
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This website is worth knowing about :
And some of the useful pages within it (or about it) :
rt3-adrenals.org/Iron_test_...
rt3-adrenals.org/cortisol_t...
rt3-adrenals.org/does_it_af...
healthunlocked.com/thyroidu...
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Symptoms of thyroid disease :
It’s great to have the old posts. But, I would much prefer repeated new posts form all around the UK so that experiences and information are current.
blood test results
Eyes & Hashimoto's
Depression - by Sally Brampton
