For all of you who have a Thyroid problem

I have had an underactive thyroid for the last 18 or so years, my symptoms have always remained despite taking T4.

At the end of last year I joined a UK support group and visited a recommended Dr in the UK.

He changed my medication and I am now getting back my life. (turns out I wasn't lazy, mad, overeating and always tired for no reason after all, just on medication which was not working)!

This support group has just sent out information on a new Dr who will help advise them - good news he is in Dubai, I think at the medical centre in the Green community.

For those of you who have Thyroid problems and are looking for a good DR please see info below.

Dear Members,

I am very pleased to announce to you all that we have a new Medical Adviser.

Dr Malcolm Maclean is a Scot (that makes two with Dr Skinner). He is a
graduate of Cambridge University and Westminster Hospital Medical School,
who developed an interest in Thyroid disorders, having himself been
diagnosed as being hypothyroid in his 50s.

Mainly practicing in the fields of general practice and child health, Dr
Maclean undertook epidemiological and biochemical laboratory research into
the causes of birth defects, focussing on the possible role of a thiol
enzyme (COMT) as a factor in these disorders. He has a continuing interest
in the possible role of thiol enzyme defects in the development of disease.

As a Scot, he is particularly interested in the view that Scots, as a Celtic
race, are particularly at risk to hypothyroidism. That view, proposes that
races which historically were forever on the brink of starvation, developed
an "Off" switch of their thyroid system, which is on a "Hair trigger".
Viewed in evolutionary terms, families, which did not develop that hair
trigger (In order to precipitate a conservation mode at a time of
starvation), tended not survive.

He is yet another good doctor ostracised by the GMC for (Inter alia)
diagnosing thyroid cases with "normal" labs (As have so many other doctors).

He now perceives that a new dawn in medicine is approaching, which will
based on a clearer understanding, acceptance and response to the causes of
disease, thanks largely to the Internet.