Best GP ever

[Rudegirl]

I've just had a call at home from my GP.. She's booked me in for all my necessary blood to be done before I begin NDT.. She's is reading @stop tge thyroid madness".. I've opened up a new world to her & she's now looking at suppliers & nhs prescriptions!!! Whoop whoop

[nightingale-56]

Tell her to spread the word to other GPs! Hang on to he, she sounds good.

[Rudegirl in reply to nightingale-56]

She really is.. unfortunately it's been a locum Dr I've seen since diagnosis due to too many patients..

[Flower3]

That's really amazing!!! Now you can work together on getting your health back, that's much better than to fight every time to get what you think you need and want.

I'm happy for you.

[Jazzw]

Wow. Hope the other doctors at the practice aren't the sort who might consider reporting her to the GMC...

[faith63]

I was not impressed with the way sttm pushes ndt.. it makes some people with hashi's worse.

[shaws Administrator in reply to faith63]

Faith,

The benefit of natural dessicated thyroid hormones is that:-

It has been in use in several forms since 1892 and is synergistic with our human body rather than a synthetic form for many people.

It contains all of the hormones our own thyroid gland produced, i.e. T4, T3, T2, T1 and calcitonin. The latter two Ts may have very little but there has to be some purpose for Mother Nature providing these and calcitonin is used for osteoporosis.

In the UK the BTA guidelines say that levothyroxine only is to be subscribed on the NHS. The fact that it makes many more unwell, regardless of the form of dysfunction we may have, is causing untold misery to thousands of people.

We don't have the option and doctors are afraid of prosecution for prescribing a hormone which has the potential of letting us lead a normal healthy life if levo is making us more unwell. Hashimoto patients do eventually become hypothyroid.

In the USA prescriptions for levothyroxine is the highest above any other prescription and that's only due to the vigorous pharmaceutical companies promotion of it, through monetary incentives to the doctors.

This is an explanation of taking NDT with hashimoto's:

I KEEP READING THAT WE SHOULDN’T BE ON NDT IF WE HAVE HASHI’S. IS THAT TRUE? Not according to a huge body of Hashi’s patients who reported they have soared with NDT. Granted, patients have noticed that if they stayed on lower doses too long and/or didn’t raise high enough, quick enough, it fed the attack, not stopped it. You then have further swelling in your throat, or hair loss, or high anxiety, or a raise in your antibodies…and heightened hypo symptoms with a higher TSH. And doctors who aren’t knowledgeable about desiccated thyroid might put you back on synthetics, or take you off your meds completely. The solution discovered by patients is to raise the desiccated thyroid faster and according to the elimination of symptoms and NOT labs. Many seem to end up in the 2-5 grains area to stop that attack. This is where individuality comes in.

stopthethyroidmadness.com/h...

[faith63 in reply to shaws]

I think everyone should have the right to try all kinds of thyroid hormone available. It was explained to me that desiccated is like giving the Hashi's more fuel, because it is so much like our own thyroid. The Synthetics are bio identical tho, too, if they weren't they wouldn't show up on the thyroid labs as ft4 and ft3.

[Rudegirl in reply to faith63]

I'm sure pig kidneys & a heart has been transplanted to humans!!!

[helvella Administrator Thyroid UK in reply to Rudegirl]

Only as far as a baboon so far as I know:

sciencedaily.com/releases/2...

And this about kidneys:

blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethic...

Rod

[shaws Administrator]

That's absolutely wonderful news. I only hope that those 'powers' don't interfere with her decision to help. This one way you can assist her too:-

thyroiduk.org.uk/tuk/treatm...

thyroiduk.org.uk/tuk/treatm...

web.archive.org/web/2010032...

web.archive.org/web/2010073...

[Rudegirl in reply to shaws]

Yeh when I said I'd bought NDT she said she was very interested to monitor & work along side me.. Then she took a deeper interest.. All I have to do is have all my blood checked & up to par before we begin!

[Jackie]

HI I use Springfield, Richmond by post.

Jackie

[Leeanne73]

Wow that's great news . Hopefully some gps are starting to have a open mind about it. I've thought about giving my books to go to read bit unsure as to how she would take it (she is within range and that's it! !)

[Rudegirl]

It's my books my GP is reading.. I just said I was reading a real interesting book about another treatment.. But I didnt understand a lot of it... She said she was interested to read it.. I told her to keep it & now she can lend to other gps!!

[Spareribs in reply to Rudegirl]

please let us know how this pans out... J

[Rudegirl in reply to Spareribs]

Will do..