Would people with no thyroid problems feel good on NDT?

[kiltis]

When I said to my doctor that I felt much better and had stopped taking antidepressants since starting with NDT she said that anyone would feel better with extra thyroid hormones. I thought that would make someone with no thyroid problems hyper and ill?

[helvella Administrator]

I'd be so tempted to suggest that she might like to try taking some desiccated thyroid as well and, by so doing, demonstrate that she too feels better when taking un-needed thyroid hormones.

Of course, medics don't generally like facetious responses...

Isn't the name of the game "make the patient feel better"?

Rod

[Issy in reply to helvella]

Your Doctor is uneducated.

[kiltis in reply to Issy]

Yes, she didn't know what DHEA was when I told her my adrenal test came back with low DHEA.

[kiltis in reply to helvella]

Oh very tempting. I would love to see her face when being handed a few NDT pills 'to make you feel better'.

[Hidden]

depends on the definition of 'no thyroid problems' - probably according to 'normal' blood tests? (and only acting/relying upon the labs pointing out anything awry?)

I am very 'normal' with blood tests always in range - average over the last 3 years of 4ish (TSH only measured of course, latest 4.57 range to 5.5) however my family and myself beg to differ!

I don't feel 'normal' at all! and obvious symptoms ignored in favour of CFS/ME & depression/anxiety instead - despite only having half a thyroid, which seems to be of no consequence.

(with apologies for the overuse of 'I' but this is just my personal experience.)

We're not asking for the earth - just simple hormone replacement. J x

[kiltis in reply to Hidden]

Yes you are so right. Are they refusing to give you hormone replacement too?

[Hidden in reply to kiltis]

yep no treatment offered for my obvious symptoms - obvious to us only it seems (apart from antidepressants which I refuse - been refusing for 10 years now - if I was depressed that may be different and I don't pretend to have any knowledge on the subject) I have also refused carpal and cubital tunnel surgery (found I was low in Vit D instead) so I'm just awkward! J x

(btw - my Dad had acromegaly and did VERY well on piggy hormone, I would choose natural dessicated hormone above any other, if offered J)

[alangardner]

i would wonder if your doctor would prescribe 'extra thyroid hormones ' to all her patients that were not feeling well -----or maybe she has hit on the majic formula to cure all ills -----has she got feathers or is she a practicing DUCK ==== as in quack ?????.... her reply to you actually beggers belief and I wonder where she was trained and if she actually passed !!!!!!.....alan

[kiltis in reply to alangardner]

Ha ha, thanks for making me smile!

[kiltis]

Yes, as a matter of fact my psychiatrist agree because she fine well knows what T3 can do. I have now been discharged from her care as I'm not depressed, just hypo

[kiltis]

That's terrible We're so many suffering because of the tsh test and strict following of it. My tsh is 'normal' 0.93 but I'm hypo. I'm taking 3.5 grains of NDT and would like to think that if I was just imagining being hypo (as another doctor said )I would be pretty hyper now.... My symptoms wouldn't have disappeared either..