I wrote a post a little while ago and thankyou for the replies I received. My daughter who is 27 and has congenital hypothyroidism has now been sectioned. They have stopped her thyroxine for the last week, would not let her see an endocrinologist at 2 hospitals despite being told she would. Her results for a endocrine tumour were ' lost ' at one hospital, repeated at the recent hospital then not given. She has been put on rispiredone today which can lower thyroid function even more and should not be given to anyone with an adrenal tumour. After taking her blood results there yesterday showing her dosage and what has been happening with her tsh, t3, t4 levels yesterday I was assured she would be given thyroxine today but they won't give it to her. She told me last week she was going to die in hospital and I have no way of helping her now she's been sectioned. She has never had any previous mental health problems until they began giving her pain relief last weekend and she collapsed then her mental health deteriorated rapidly.
We have received appalling care from the nhs since a complaint was made, Inc the care of my 14 yr old daughter after a car accident.
My God, you are in some nightmare and you have my sympathy what with the worry about your daughter not having any medication plus being sectioned.
It is not the first time that people have been diagnosed with a mental health condition, when the actual problem was either undiagnosed hypothyroidism or too low a dose.
There was the case of another Mother's daughter being removed so I am going to search and try and find some details, including the person who assisted in helping.
For them not to give your daughter thyroid hormones is completely inhumane - no other word for it and you are completely helpless.
Our brains need the active hormone T3 and if your daughter's free T3 is too low that may be giving her symptoms if she has been prescribed levothyroxine alone. Some of us cannot convert it sufficiently to T3.
Regards