TSH 3.5 GP won't treat - Advice please!

[Char2878]

I have had hypothyroid symptoms for 2 years. I have been tested for everything under the sun & it's comes back as 'normal' in the meantime I have gained 3 stone, have the bed routing of a 3 year old, a memory like a sieve, depression & my periods have stopped, all I have been offered is Anti- depressants & the contraceptive pill?! Feel like I have been labelled a hypochondriac & no longer want to see my GP, is there anything that I can do for myself treatment wise or could anyone recommend a private consultant either in the south west or wales? Am willing to try anything, it gas gotten to the point where it is really affecting my life & am not sure how much longer I can cope!

[Char2878]

My last free t4 was 11.3 not sure about the rest, will message u about the NDT & look for a private consultant I think, just know i'am not right!

[shaws Administrator in reply to Char2878]

For information:-

thyroiduk.org.uk/tuk/testin...

[Char2878]

Thanks so much for all of your help!

[dgleds]

wow!!! I had a similar experience about 16 years ago...I think I was around 3.5 and felt really rotten, but he wanted me to wait the gp....He also gave me anti depressants...and I gained lotsa weight too...After a year I some how got to see a different gp, and he said "Im putting you on levo- Synthroid right away"!! Thank goodness for mini miracles...Im not in the UK, but use to live there...Over here in Canada you use to be able to ask for a different GP, but not anymore....and there is a shortage of GP. I just get who I get now, but boy I go in armed with notes!!!!

[Char2878 in reply to dgleds]

Thanks for sharing your experiences it so nice to know I'm not alone!

[dgleds in reply to Char2878]

I hope it all works out...

[MULLIONAIRE]

Ask for your Thyroid Peroxidase antibodies to be checked, my TSH results were not conclusive and this result allowed me to be prescribed thyroxine. Good luck

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I was not treated until my TSH was 5.3. The doc didn't event test T4 or my thyroid antibodies. That was in 2009 and 3 months before that I was with a different Gp practice and had thyroid tests, and all I was told was that they were normal, no readings. I now ask for them with every test. My gp wont increase thyroxine and a private gp recommended an increase and gp still would not do it. I now self medicate like many others and have a referral to a 2nd endo. However, I live in Wales and there aren't any endos who specialise in thyroid here, only diabetes.

I will PM you with a private GP though x