Hi , I've been back and forth to my go over the last year for numerous things ,joint pain, carpal tunnel , tiredness,not being able to lose weight,constipation,lower back pain ,longer periods, pain in my neck , glands popping up, cold all the time , eyebrows hair falling out , they have ran routine blood test after suggesting I could have hypothyroidism and said they came back normal , they prescribed me with anti depressants , I am not depressed so went to see , another doctor who knows me better , I wrote all my symtoms down and said I wanted to no the full results of bloods ,she said my tsh was 3.6 which is normal but said last year it was 1.6, they will not run any other test because of the normal results , apparently the range in my area is 0.4 - 4 .
after being on this forum and reading other stories like my own , I really do think I have a problem with my thyroid , I have a strong family history my mother , gran and aunt all suffering with it, I would be so grateful of any advice on how to even get a diagnosis , I am willing to pay privately for blood test I just don't know where to look to have them Thanks
Omg you sound just like me, my dr has said I have ME. I have put a post on tonight Please help! Let's hope the more knowledgable people can help. X
I read your post earlier, it's grinding me down , I'm fed up of feeling like this , but I don't know what to do about it, I'm banging my head against a brick wall with my gp and I don't know enough about thyroid trouble other then I tick the boxes in 99% of the symptoms , where do we go from here !? X
See my response above to Bevs.
Before the blood tests were introduced along with levothyroxine, people were diagnosed according to their clinical symptoms and medicated with natural dessicated thyroid hormones (NDT) until they were well.
Since the blood tests were introduced in the 60's it has slowly revolved so that the doctors who have trained today are only taught about using the blood tests alone and have lost their skill in diagnosing by clinical symptoms, or at least paying attention to them.
One of our favourite doctors, Dr Skinner, died last year of a stroke brought on no doubt by the GMC's asking him to appear in front of them (not Dr S's patients complaining) for prescribing on clinical symptoms and giving medication. He was pursued by the GMC for seven years.
This is self-explanatory and Dr S tried to get a meeting with all Endocrinologists to discuss with them (how he was taught as a Medical Student). He invited all of them and the ALL refused to attend.
So, you see, it would apper they did not want to be knowledgeable about the Thyroid Gland and its functions or non-functions or enable the patients to recover.
Since the introduction of the blood tests and levothyroxine, new diseases were named, ME, CFS and Fibromyalgia. My view is that these symptoms, if they didn't have a thyroid gland dysfunction, that the prescribing of thyroid hormones on a trial basis must have had a good effect on the patient.
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