International Thyroid Awareness Week 2010....

This perfectly illustrates the frustration of so many of us with thyroid "issues"!

Did you know this week was International Thyroid Awareness Week?.... No?.... Nor did I!

Well it is!.... Apparently!

Please follow the link.... International Thyroid Awareness Week 2010

Now in my humble opinion it is not perfect.... it is funded by the pharmaceuticals industry.... but as "they" say.... there is no such thing as bad publicity!

Only when public awareness has been achieved can we then take our position within it. Until that day arrives how can I preach that it does not fit with those of us for whom synthetic T4 only treatment does not work!

The pharmaceuticals industry is quite happy for thyroid "issues" to stay on the back burner and only pay lip service to the issue with campaigns such as this.... the status quo is good for them.... the gravy train keeps on running unhindered.

If the pharmaceuticals industry were serious about raising the profile they would make sure the supporting literature to this campaign was available in every doctors surgery up and down the land.

I only stumbled across this campaign because of my obsessiveness.... which is a by product of.... wait for it.... are you ready?.... ok then.... one.... two.... three.... my extremist personality!!!!

Never forget my beloved extremist personality! My coping mechanism for the twenty years I was undiagnosed and the years since diagnosis.

As always please form your own opinions by following the link to the International Thyroid Awareness Week 2010 

I concede that for someone new to thyroid "issues" there is much to be positive about. It just doesn't cut it with this particular cynic with an.... extremist.... personality!!!!

Oh, come on! I need a laugh today....