Interesting!

[Sewnsew]

Have a read, it explains the difficulties we have with our Drs!

drmalcolmkendrick.org/2015/...

[Glynisrose]

Without reading the article I can say that most doctors are poorly educated about hypothyroid!!

[silverfox7]

Thank you for posting. Sadly the ones who should be reading it won't!

[greygoose]

What a lovely man! And what a great article! Thank you for posting, Sewnsew.

[Schenks]

Brilliant thank you! Never seen this site before - and he's in England! (Naturally, he's a Scot!)

[sulamaye]

He's a great read, he was a speaker at TPAUKs conference last week or the week before. His special focus is being anti statins and big pharmas and his posts are always interesting and entertaining.

[ElspethMann]

Indeed an interesting read, most of which sadly we have all discovered over the years...I may send it to the recent NHS endochronologist I consulted with, but of course their hands are tied...and then they get all huffy and wonder why we self medicate. Thank you.

[Sue-b]

Thank you for posting. It breaks my heart that my daughter is struggling so and the medical profession are not interested and would prefer to prescribe anti depressants and sleeping pills than getting her better.

[lola1956]

Thankyou so much for posting this great article . .will print off and show to my doctor who is running scared of my blood tests due to my self medicating t3

[TigerTea]

Someone clone this brilliant doctor then we'd all get better and give the nhs peace!

[Salsa2014]

This is fantastic! I have had half my thyroid removed for an indeterminate nodule and have started to develop some symptoms of lowered thyroid hormone-erratic v heavy periods, poss carpal tunnel syndrome, pulsatile tinnitus?, depression etc. Of course, I am told my blood results are 'normal' even though my FT3 is at the bottom of the range, my FT4 is several points lower than before surgery and my TSH, although not particularly high, is over double what it was before. When I pointed out to my Consultant that the results are not 'normal' for me he said that it doesn't matter where I am in the range as long as I am within it, even though he has evidence that my biochemistry has changed! It seems crazy that after half of someones thyroid is removed that they don't aim to give replacement hormone to bring it back to previous levels. The results are obviously not normal for me, as evidenced, and he can see that. I can already see that I'm going to have an almighty battle to be treated properly and at the age of 43, where I once had plans and enthusiasm for life, I now feel like I can't make them, as my health may continue to deteriorate. I was lucky enough to be v healthy before this op. At the moment I am still strong enough to fight and I really think we all need to be doing as much as we can, collectively or alone, to challenge this ridiculous and criminally negligent state of affairs. If we don't continually challenge GP's/ endo's etc, as exhausting as that may be, nothing will change and lives will continue to be ruined. We cannot let the medical establishment continue to do this. I wish we could all get together for a mass demonstration with other thyroid support groups-or as someone else mentioned previously, go to the press or media.

[Agapanthus]

Thank you for posting - well worth reading! I am one of the lucky ones that gets T3 on the NHS without a struggle, but I know there are many more on the other side who need better treatment from informed GPs and endocrinologists.

[Zephyrbear]

Thanks for posting this! It proves there are still doctors out there who are willing to pick up the gauntlet and fight our corner, especially after having lost both Drs John Lowe and Gordon Skinner. I shall print this out and give it to both my GPs surgery and endo to 'enlighten' them!

[ursa]

It is NICE, the 'National Institute of Clinical 'Excellence'', that needs an urgent overhaul.

It is them that give strict guidelines to GP's, like prescribing statins to everybody above a certain age with a cholesterol level above 4, prescribing anti-depressants to older people, whether they are really depressed or not - just as 'preventative medicine. But, then, they 'guide doctors as to what NOT to do when it comes to real problems.

[Fox123]

This makes scary reading. Is there any hope for us? It is comforting though to have it confirmed that I am not going mad! That despite my GP and a Private Endo telling me that my thyroid "levels" are ok, I still feel like crap! If Doctors are afraid of being struck off, they're never going to treat us correctly. I despair. I think I will now go off trawling the Internet for some NDT!!!