Hypothyroidism
Mimics Require Consideration by Eric Pritchard, M.Sc. with TPA-UK letter
to BTA
She wakes tired. Struggles to get up. Dresses slowly. Now exhausted, she
falls back into bed. Once again she will have an after-nap breakfast.
She wakes for her doctor’s appointment. Once again, he claims her
tests were normal. Once again she claims she is sick. Once again, he writes
the same old prescription, saying that she is really suffering from functional
somatoform disorders. Once again, she is reduced to tears. “Why
again? Must I suffer more? Why can’t you help me?” Is the
diagnosis and treatment of hypothyroidism trivial? Or, is it more complex,
even mysterious?
Evidence-based Medicine
Leads to Mediation of Symptoms of Mimics of Hypothyroidism by Eric K.
Pritchard, M.Sc.
Evidence Based Medicine is a modern, scientific alternative to the eminence
based medicine. Currently, eminence based medicine is ignoring the mimics
of hypothyroidism. Consequently, those patients are seemingly doomed to
a life of chronic suffering with the symptoms of hypothyroidism, constant
exhaustion, hypo-metabolism, hyper-cholesterolemia, deformity by myxedema,
droopy eye lids, weight gain, etc. Furthermore, these patients are doomed
to a life shorted by their greater susceptibility to life’s great
killers, diabetes and heart disease.
TPA-UK Hypothyroid Patient
results published
In this survey of 1500 hypothyroid patients, which was undertaken in 2005-6,
the dissatisfaction of many patients is highlighted. Of all respondents,
93.8% (n=1407) had not been told of medicines other than L-thyroxine by
their medical practitioner. 38.8% (n=768) felt they had “not been
dealt with very well” or “not very well at all” by their
doctor whilst seeking a diagnosis of their symptoms; 233 (15.5%) had given
up paid employment; 300 (20%) had taken time off work as a result of thyroid
illness; 500 (33.3%) felt their close relationships had been affected
by thyroid illness and 632 (42.1%) had stopped or altered their exercise
routines as a result of their symptoms. When asked of those patients undergoing
L-thyroxine therapy, “Do you feel that you have fully regained your
optimal state of health?”, 1176 (78.4%) Answered “No”.
The Linguistic Etiologies of
Thyroxine-Resistant Hypothyroidism
by Eric K. Pritchard
The thyroxine resistant victims of hypothyroidism are not suffering because
there is no treatment available—the Food and Drug Administration
approved and indicated them long ago. These victims are suffering because
the proper treatments are not considered—linguistic etiologies keep
the science of “exo-endocrine” (outside of the endocrine system)
hypothyroidism beyond the reach of the practicing physician with the confusion
of “overinclusion” (identical treatment of two classes that
burdens one excessively). The linguistic etiologies must be eliminated.