I bought this Saturday from Smiths. Only £4.95. I bought it for a giggle to be honest but I was rather surprised!!
Written by a professor of endocrinology who specialises in thyroid disorders.
Every issued I have raised with my endo and was told was irrelevant or caused by something else, is according to this professor attributable to Graves' disease !
I have a gp appointment Tuesday. I'm going armed with this little book and the great advice from the wonderful people on this forum
So I'm advance I would like to say thank you and I will keep the forum posted No longer will I be fobbed off. 4 years of being lied to is quite enough!!!!!
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He was President of the British Thyroid Association.
What I disagree with is his agreement that the TSH has to reach 10 before being diagnosed. Some can be quite ill even before TSH reaches 10 and for some people it never does but they have disabling clinical symptoms.
Did your doctor do FT4 and FT3 - they don't usually as they're told TSH and F4 are fine. They don't bother checking if we have sufficient Active hormones circulating.
Yes I saw it and Dr Toft did say some patients do well on T 3.
I am currently seeing Dr Toft privately every two months but he is still resistant to me having NDT. I emailed him last month to say I had started T3 myself . I will see him again on the 3rd of May and have new blood results ready for him..
I hope he will support me on my desision on taking T3 because I have never felt this well in 30 years.
The whole situation regarding treatment of thyroid disorders is to put it mildly rather barbaric!! You have 54,000 odd people on this forum all saying the same thing and apparently 54,000 of us have no idea what we are going on about!!!
I feel I'm brewing to write a letter to an MP !!!! Shock horror !!!!
You have no idea the dramatic improvement to my life , it's beyond belief.
I am a mental health professional so very cynical about dramatic or exaggerated claims.
I would shout from the rooftops about my life now compared to how it was. Friends and family can't believe the difference in me and I haven't even told them about my treatment.
I feel frustrated that I had to self medicate myself even though I have been asking Dr Toft for several months for either NDT or T3. I shall post his response and my blood results after the 3rd may.
He does know because when I told him via email I also asked him could my GP prescribe it for me.
He told me just to carry on getting it from Greece as it was a reliable source. He also said he would discuss it with me at my next appointment which is next week.
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