McCall McPherson says 1.5 to 4 million people rely on thyroid medications. She shares how levothyroxine improved her quality of life and discusses the Thyroid Health Alliance's push to speed up FDA approval for thyroid treatments.
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You know, I think so many 1.5 million people up. You know, I've read a stat up to 4 million people rely on these medications. I know so many of my patients do, certainly, and myself included, I take run thyroid. And so I don't want to lose access to that. It completely changed and revolutionized my life and gave me my life back. So I'm really hopeful that we'll continue to work towards that. For anyone listening that might want to get involved, we've created what's called the Thyroid Health alliance to just communicate with our congressman and petition and stay up to date on the latest of this. And you can find out more@the thyroidhealthalliance.org, notcom.org and you can sign up to be part of our little movement. How are you all navigating this landscape? What are you feeling like? Do you feel pretty confident that, hey, the FDA is going to come through, we don't need to worry so much? I'm curious your take.
So the way I look at it is, number one, we need to work on things that we can control and that is getting the product approved as soon as we can. So that's our main focus going forward and getting it approved. We did see obviously the FDA notice, but as I mentioned a week or so later, the comments from the FDA commissioner gave us a little bit of a comfort level, or more than a little bit, actually a decent comfort level.
