Thyroid Patient Advocacy (TPA) is in the process of creating the FIRST WORLD REGISTER OF COUNTEREXAMPLES TO T4-ONLY THERAPY.

This short survey is applicable only to those who continued to suffer symptoms on T4-only therapy, and who found those symptoms were mitigated or disappeared once they were started on a T3 hormone containing product.

The Register of counterexamples will be used to draw to the attention of those responsible authorities throughout the world, the dire need for an urgent re-examination of the existing protocol for the diagnosis and management of the symptoms of hypothyroidism and challenge studies previously undertaken (900 participants), which concluded that T4/T3 combination worked no better than T4-only therapy.

Counterexamples prove incontrovertibly that endocrinology's stance is dangerously wrong. Doctor’s continuance of practising in line with the T4-only treatment dictat for all sufferers of the symptoms of hypothyroidism is pernicious. The number of patient counterexamples stands at the present time at 1407.

(A counterexample is a situation which fits the concept or premise of an idea but produces a different result.  To be responsible, a scientist who finds a counterexample to his idea, must limit or abandon his idea as unworkable or not reliable.  The T4-therapy does not work for all. 

If you fit this category, please will you complete the 3 questions with either 'YES', 'NO' or N/A here. 

All responses will be collated online, and your email address (if you provide one) will be used ONLY to contact you at a later date should this be becomes necessary.

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Dr Skinner's WORLD THYROID REGISTER can be completed here.

"A World Thyroid Register has been formed to address the parlous situation of patients who are hypothyroid and have yet not been diagnosed, and indeed, patients who are being managed with an unacceptably low level of thyroid replacement. The situation has significantly worsened in the last one year pursuant to pronouncements in the United Kingdom from the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of General Practitioners who inter alia, have suggested that patients should not be diagnosed with hypothyroidism if the TSH is <10.0, and moreover, that Armour Thyroid is a 'bad' preparation because the proportions of T4/T3 may not reflect the human proportions while contemporaneously suggesting prescription of T4 alone; this makes no sense at all". Dr Skinner