Just sharing a thought

[Sususulio]

NHS Self Care

People have a key role in protecting their own health, choosing appropriate treatments and managing long-term conditions. Self-management is a term used to include all the actions taken by people to recognise, treat and manage their own health. They may do this independently or in partnership with the healthcare system.

I have just been reflecting as I battle away at trying to sort out thyroid problems the one sided expectation of the 'self care' agenda - the quote above is from the NHS site.

Any views I might have in terms of self care and how I am trying to improve my general health through informed thyroid treatment are dismissed. The private blood tests I have sourced have more often than not been pushed back across the table to me without much of a glance and I am left pondering as we move towards more and more scant resources through the NHS how we can achieve some parity and recognition for private tests and the part they play in our self care...... Just thinking

[Hidden]

Sususulio it's almost impossible to change closed minds. Many of us have given up and do our own thing, not caring one iota whether the NHS approves or not. I prefer to save my energy and not waste it battling the NHS.

Patients are naturally terrified of taking their health into their own hands, it seems wrong but we must learn and learn to trust our instincts as well.

[shaws Administrator]

I agree with Hidden we can recover our own health without the need for doctors or endocrinologists. We can get our own blood tests and source our own thyroid hormones (sometimes we may have to try several) but we can get there in the end, feeling well with relief of all symptoms.

Most on this forum know far more than doctors or endocrinoloigsts of necessity because we haven't got well with their efforts and in fact can be far worse, so we've no one to blame if we 'do it ourselves'.

Many frighten us that we will get heart attacks or osteo but we wont if we go slowly and surely.

Thyroid hormones are the driving force for our whole metabolism so every single one of the billions of receptor cells need T3. Converted from levothyroxine or contained within a natural dessicated thyroid hormone, the very original since 1892 - but of course there are different manufacturers and it contains all of the hormones a healthy gland would i.e. T4, T3, T2, T2 and calictonin.

[Hidden in reply to shaws]

Well said shaws , you're spot on.

[Sususulio in reply to Hidden]

I agree with you both too - just expressing disappointment I suppose in what's promised and proposed against what's actually delivered. ☹️

[Angel_of_the_North in reply to Sususulio]

It's all just politically correct speak - or even doublethink.

They want you to think for yourself but only if it results in the same conclusions that they came to. Just like school really.