Feeling very very very ashamed because I consider myself a normally assertive person, however....
I think of myself as lucky to have found a private endo who prescribed me a trial of NDT, raising it appropriately (according to advice I have received through this site and contacts I have made through this site [for which I will be eternally grateful] ) until just recently when they added in Levo 25mcg instead of a T3 increase which might just have got me into optimal.
Feeling very frustrated I contacted them and they advise to retest in 3 months, but a more thorough consultation will cost money (who can afford to keep paying out money to be told ‘no’?) and the temptation to purchase from Thailand is enormous now.
One member said something really helpful, about the value of a prescription and a supply, which I really really appreciated, but come blood test time, my results are (hopefully) going to be so fabulous that the prescription will be the same, and I am going to run out if I take more than they prescribe aren’t I? And I find it really hard to break rules.
I realise that I keep asking for more and more encouragement, which you lovely people keep giving, and I struggle with the courage to implement it. I feel ashamed because it sounds like I don’t want to feel better, but I have been on holiday this week and have felt pretty bloody awful, not sure if it can be the extra, tiny increase of Levo, but I have also added another kilo of miserable weight and I want to start living life now. Arrived home to hear of the death of a relative who certainly didn’t address her thyroid problem herself and left it to NHS fools.
On top of it all, just had a lecture from my GP about thyroid treatment, walked out forgetting to ask for blood tests!!!!!!! I take all my supplements religiously following SeasideSusie’s advice. I am going to swap to Thorne’s for my B and folate, but forgot to ask for tests today having been on them for 3-4 months. I’ll call in and ask her to authorise them, but she is running out of patience with me.
I’d be really grateful for advice (again)