I am Qassi Gaba. I built Haloscan, and I write everything on this blog.
I am a software developer. I am not a doctor, a nurse, a dietitian or a scientist, and nothing here is written from clinical training.
What I do have is eleven years of watching my mother manage Hashimoto's. The appointments, the results that came back normal while she felt anything but, and the spreadsheet she kept because no app would do it for her. Haloscan started as an attempt to replace that spreadsheet.
That is what these articles are written from. Someone who has read a lot of lab reports, sat in a lot of appointments, and built software around what was missing from both.
By finding out what people are actually asking. The questions on this blog come from Google's own autocomplete and from thyroid communities, not from a keyword tool's guess at what might get traffic. The tool that collects them is in the open.
If forty-four different phrasings of one question turn up, that is an article somebody needs and nobody has written properly.
Anything that tells you what your own results mean, or what to do about them.
That is the same rule the app is built on. Haloscan shows you your data and the questions worth asking, and it never tells you what is causing how you feel. An article that crossed that line would contradict the product it is published beside.
Where a topic genuinely needs clinical judgement, either it gets reviewed by somebody qualified and their name goes on it, or it does not get published.
If something here is wrong, I would rather know. Write to qassi@haloscan.co and tell me what and where. I will correct it and say that I did.