Welcome to the Official Web Site of Thyroid Patient Advocacy

THYROID PATIENT ADVOCACY (TPA) is an independent user-led organisation established to ensure that all thyroid disease sufferers are given a correct diagnosis and receive effective treatment. TPA believes all patients should have access to all relevant tests and treatment, including synthetic or natural T3.

As a result, TPA campaigns for better education in diagnostics and treatment and provides extensive support and guidance for all sufferers.

TPA is managed by a group of dedicated thyroid patients who volunteer their services freely. This web site, the TPA-UK Information Pack and the Internet discussion forum is available to all and will help patients and doctors develop greater knowledge and understanding about the illness, will advise on reliable diagnostic tests, and recommend where to obtain proper, effective treatment.

In TPA's efforts, the following critical questions are being asked but remain unanswered:

1. WHY do the GMC, the RCP, the BTA et al. deliberately choose to ignore the scientific evidence that has been available for over 40 years ?
2. WHY are medical associations ignoring the 13% failure rate of T4-only therapy for the past 50 years? Why are patient's complaints dismissed?
3. WHY has there been no correction to the RCP statement when there are patients who are counterexamples to the validity of T4-only therapy?
4. WHY is the confusion of two definitions for ‘hypothyroidism allowed to continue?
5. WHY are guideline authorship and concise guidance to good practice protocols ignored?
6. WHY are individual symptoms of hypothyroidism stated to be “non-specific” when Baisier found groups of these symptoms may be quite specific?
7. WHAT further investigations for non-thyroidal causes are recommended as relevant to the symptoms of hypothyroidism when pituitary and thyroid GLAND function tests are biochemically normal – Levels of fT3, rT3 and adrenal levels?
8. WHY are the studies by Das (2007) and Lewis (2008), which found that patients could be successfully treated with thyroid extract being ignored?
9. WHY is medicine ignoring false negative test results?
10. WHY do doctors refuse to explain and/or justify their decisions, thereby withholding information necessary for valid consent to treatment?
11. WHY does the NHS refuse to take steps to protect human rights when sufferers are put at risk through a disregard of the demand that patients should be treated with fairness, respect, equality, dignity and autonomy?
12. WHY are laboratory discrepancies in serum testing being ignored?

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they
fight you, then you win." —Mahatma Gandhi