Doctor here??????

[Ashishk]

Can we find any doctor here...who uses the forum on regular basis..???

[Gambit62 Administrator]

Not aware of any doctors using the forum

There is an organisation called B12d.org in the UK that is run by Dr Chandy - you could try contacting him

b12d.org/

scroll down to the section on Dr Chandy which gives an email address

[fbirder]

If I were an MD I think I'd keep my head down and not let it be known. Far too many people too quick to label them as lackies of the pharmaceutical industry who deliberately mistreat their patients in order to reap the millions that they get paid for prescribing antidepressants instead.

[Marz in reply to fbirder]

If you could spend a few hours on the Thyroid UK forum with over 41,000 people - you could be excused for thinking that is the case

[Polaris in reply to fbirder]

thecommissioningreview.com/...

To be fair FB, it's not particularly the fault of the GPs but the way the system has been set up (with input from BIg Pharma perhaps?). Surgeries are paid more for patients with mental health problems, dementia, heart conditions etc. and much less for thyroid disease - probably nothing for PA/B12 def. - Jeremy Hunt described PA as 'a rare disease!

In our family alone, misdiagnoses of autoimmune disease has meant various classifications under heart disease, ME, mental health, dementia and so on,...resulting with over prescription of BP medication, betablockers, etc. PPIs, antibiotics, anti psychotic drugs....

"Although adding a patient to the hypothyroid register does not have a large cash value...." '

"The two areas where each addition to the register is most

valuable are mental health and dementia care."

"Patients who are prescribed lithium are added

automatically to the mental health register, but patients on

other medications for bipolar disorder, such as valproate

sodium, are not."

"Similarly for patients with a diagnosis

of dementia after 1 April, make sure that they have bloods

including B12 and folate soon after diagnosis."

Hmm - I wonder how many patients with early dementia are actually tested for B12? My relative was not - referred only to ME and memory clinics and initially refused B12 injections and prescribed anti psychotic drugs, even when GP was told she was unable to walk and that the drugs made her dizzy, risking further damage from falling.

I cannot forgive the system which has and is still causing such unnecessary devastation to people's lives.

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My relative after injury to head went into severe short memory loss and then delusions and paronaih also had coeliac since the 50's but getting a tiny B multivitamin with psychotic drugs...Specialists have to stay on prescribed tracks...no going back to ground zero @Dulaigh