The mission of the The Thyroid Project is to encourage sharing of information and experience between the public and the medical community about the treatment of hypothyroidism (low thyroid function). For at least the past few decades there is a growing awareness of “something missing†in the way suffers of hypothyroidism are treated for their disease.
Too many patients, as documented in an on-line study of 12,000 individuals conducted by the American Thyroid Association published in June 2018, (https://doi.org/10.1089/thy.2017.0681) , complain of persistent symptoms of hypothyroidism despite what their doctors believe is successful treatment with levothyroxine (brands include Synthroid, Unithroid, Tirosent, Levoxl). We believe something needs to be done to resolve this conflict between patients and their doctors.
The first step in our mission is to provide a series of 1 minute, raw and unedited, unrehearsed interviews with patients with hypothyroidism during their actual visit with an endocrinologist. All identifying features (that’s why no faces) have been removed to protect patient privacy. Signed consent was also obtained from each person shown.
We hope these videos will be a good first step to opening the conversation between medical professionals and their patients about this serious and decades old controversy. In our introductory interview we share the experiences of a typical person caught in this sad predicament.
Watch the first Thyroid Project Patient Interview here: https://youtu.be/8-3MM9ZdAW8
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