Tragic death of Thyroid patient: irishtimes.com... - Thyroid UK
Tragic death of Thyroid patient
Why was she given Carbimazole when she was hypothyroid?
Exactly what I was wondering. I'm hoping it's misreporting of facts because if that's true then no wonder it ended so badly.
Sounds like a right mess on the who-knows-what front.
As you titled it - Tragic.
It is the saddest story I have heard. I tried to comment on the page but I don't have a Facebook/Twitter/linkedin.
Very sad I have posted on my fb for all to see we need to get the message across. I become more determined every day to do this.
I feel very sad now after reading the article it's a disgrace. The past three years the incompetence and neglect within the NHS is getting worse.
The NHS either needs to have a complete u turn get the matrons and sisters back and doctors that were doctors not a business.
Or delare the NHS over and allow everyone to have insurance I am sure it would be fairer if not then I fear it is going back to victorian times.
This took place in Dublin, as I read it, which would possibly be under the Health Service Executive of the Irish government - not the UK's NHS. (Someone from RoI able to confirm or correct?)
That does not reduce the importance of the story one iota, and both the HSE and the NHS have plenty of problems.
Details of the inquest verdict here:
irishtimes.com/newspaper/ir...
So sad and avoidable I believe with better knowledge, care and treatment
From what i've witnessed during the time my friend has been ill i'm frankly surprised that this doesn't happen more often. If she wasn't so clued up these idiots (NHS GPs) would have given her life threatening medication on a couple of occasions!
How absolutely awful - such a sad story and surely such an avoidable death. My heart goes out to her family.
So sad.
I am so saddened and upset that poor desperate woman her poor husband an children. When I read the inquest report I was furious. To say there was no connection between thyroid and Mental Health had misinformed was he. Misinformation on thyroid I think is the biggest symptom of this disease I asked the question re mental problems and thyroid on the forum at the weekend. Some people can forward, I'm sure others did not because of the stigma of Mental Health. I should know, I was sectioned under the MHA and days later diagnosed with Graves. So if anyone says there is no stigma, I can provide you with evidence. I have emailed the Irish paper and offered them my storey. This must never happen again.
I can't understand what they thought they were doing, The whole thing is a total shambles from start to finish.
I have twice been diagnosed with mental health problems (once when hyper, once when hypo) and the first time I was put into a mental hospital, the result being I lost my job as a junior/music teacher.
When I recovered I tried to clear the record but with no success, They wanted a written guarantee that I was not going to 'break down' again! I had to turn my back on the job I loved and was in accounts for the rest of my working life.
There were times during that period when I thought of suicide but being a single mother kept me from doing it.
Reading that account was horrifying, confusing and disturbing. 100 years ago doctors were fully aware of the impact of thyroid illness on mental health. What on earth is the matter with them? Are they just too clever nowadays to recognise a tree when they see it?
Tragic, Words fail me, Feel so sad for her family. ''Wake up''medical world, thyroid problems are real and not just in our head!
Nobody should have to feel so utterly helpless and hopeless because of a lack of proper diagnosis, care and support.
I know exactly how desperate this dear woman felt.
Quoting from the Irish Times inquest story,
Dr Farrell accepted there was a “temporal relationship” but there was no evidence of a connection between the thyroidism and the psychosis.
I'd really like to know exactly what would constitute 'evidence'. How on earth can we ever get the message through? 
discharged that night on the basis that her thyroxin levels did not appear to warrant urgent medical attention.
aka you're well because you are within the range. Makes my blood boil.
PERHAPS DR CHRIS STEELE NOW OUR PATRON COULD BRING TO THE ATTENTION OF ALL GPS HOW IMPORTANT IT IS 1) LEARN MORE ABOUT THYROID DISORDERS
2) LISTEN TO THE PATIENT
3) DO THOROUGH TESTING
THEN MAYBE TERRIBLE INCIDENTS LIKE WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THIS POOR WOMAN MAY BECOME A THING OF THE PAST, WE MUST HOPE SOMEONE OUT THERE CARES ENOUGH TO DO SOMETHING,
I've only just managed to read this - and I am so deeply upset - and fearful. what about those of us - like me - who don't have sufficient capacity to work out how to treat ourselves like some of the amazing people on here? And who - like me have been treated for severe depression, when it may have had something to do with the fact that our thyroids are terrible out of kilter? Or those who - like me, had a miscarriage for "no real reason - it just happens" as the doctors said, and who never were able to carry a pregnancy again, only to find out after menopause that it was probably the thyroid problems that were at the root of it?
What hope is there really when the doctors are, by and large, overpaid grandees now in charge of their own budgets with no incentive to challenge the pharmaceutical empires and so lose their perks?
The story is nothing short of tragic.
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