Monitoring and tracking our health

Our May Patients Voices event is now just over two weeks away and we are very excited about it! This meeting is for anyone affected by a thyroid disorder. Friends, family and interested professionals are welcome too. 

Do you keep notes about your thyroid condition and share them with your doctor? Do you keep a note of your blood test results if you are given them? Do you track specific symptoms? Do you note how much you exercise, your stress levels or what you eat? Do you make a note when you take your medication? Do you have a system for keeping track of how things may change over time? ​

How useful have you found any notes or data you keep in helping you to manage your condition with your doctor's support? What things are important to YOU to keep a note of and what has proven to be most helpful for you and / or your doctor. ​

What tips would you share with other thyroid patients and what questions do you have that you would like to ask your peers. 

This has been a subject we have touched on in previous meetings and often comes up so we are delighted to devote our May event to this conversation.

We will be joined for this meeting by guest, Mike Linskey, who is working to develop a new app for thyroid patients which he hopes will help with just this challenge! Mike is a software engineer who specialises in user experience and who's wife has a thyroid condition. His project is at an early stage and he is keen to hear from real patients to find out what we would like from such an app to help him make it as useful as possible - if indeed it is something we would be interested in using.

The Thyroid Trust does not endorse Mike's app, which is still at an early stage of development and which we are assured will not capture any patient data, but we are excited to be part of the conversation helping him work out what features thyroid patients would find most useful and also sharing amongst ourselves what systems individuals may already use and find helpful.

Mike's presentation will last around ten minutes and the rest of the time will be an opportunity for peer support, group discussion and networking.

Refreshments will be provided: tea, coffee, herbal tea, biscuits and fruit. 

There are limited places for this event so do book in advance if you are planning to attend. 

Please get in touch if you would like to help spread the word by putting up some posters in your local area for this event. Thank you!

You can download a poster here if you like - please let us know if you do - and where you put it up - it's always great to hear that a supermarket, health centre, community centre or local library noticeboard has let someone new know about our meetings and caused them to come along! Not everyone is online and those who aren't will be particularly grateful for any offline promotion that helps them find out about the peer support available to them, if they are struggling with a thyroid condition. 

We are also researching alternative venues for our events from September onwards as the church in Covent Garden unfortunately is not fully accessible for those with mobility issues. If you have any suggestions of somewhere that could be good, please let us know. 

Our biggest best and smiles to you all.