Can anyone recommend a good endocrinologist in Scotland please

[SLM81]

I’ve been ill for 5 years, self medicating with supplements, d3, zma, vit c, pro Biotic, recently selenium. The gp has given me folic acid but my ferrtin is very low so is my b12. I’ve found through my own research to help, After nearly 2 years my GP is in the agreement I have hashimotos disease and estrogen dominance but the endo will not see me again after saying I PROBABLY had a vit D deficiency which I don’t! even though she sees my mum who ended up with graves after not being treated for so long.

I have all the blood tests done for the past year and a half but could only add one picture. I’m feeling seriously low at the moment anxiety is off the scale I’m exhausted but can’t sleep at night I’m wired, have half the hair I had 5 years ago, 3 different types of skin issues, nodules on my thyroid which the ENT consultant said was normal..

I’m at my wits end I don’t mind paying I was meant to be buying a house but I’ve put it on hold to see if I need the money for my health first.

Many thanks X

[MKitty]

Hi SLM81, sorry you are feeling so bad.

I am a patient of Dr Toft, who works out of Spire, Murrayfield Edinburgh on Wednesdays. You need to phone for appointment

Take all your test results to your appointment.

Hope this helps.

[SLM81 in reply to MKitty]

Thankyou does he now prescribe LDN and NDT as I think that’s what I’d like to try x

[MKitty in reply to SLM81]

He prescribes what you need, rather than what you may want.

[SLM81 in reply to MKitty]

Can he prescribe these medications though? I’d read a few post saying he didn’t but they were from a while ago, it’s just I’ve been doing a lot of research and the NDT seems to be a better option than synthetic options and the LND doesn’t seem to be something that’s prescribed very often either x

[MKitty in reply to SLM81]

I'm sorry I really can't answer that. I can only say how good I found him to be with me.

If you ask the forum for a supplier of NDT others more knowledgeable than me, may be able to help.

Take care.

[LAHs]

Hi slim, I’m so sorry you are not getting good endocrine care. My small contribution to your post is that you cannot tell if a thyroid nodule is benign by simply “feeling” it. You need a fine needle analysis (FNA) to make sure the nodules are not cancerous. This was simply my own experience and my nodules were found to be cancerous. I don’t want to alarm you but it is worse to have a cancerous nodule and call it benign than to have an FNA and find it negative.

[SLM81 in reply to LAHs]

Thankyou I’ve got the gp in a few weeks I’m asking for a biopsy, I’m stunned at the response of the ENT consultant, because he was a doctor I didn’t worry about it, but I want it checked now x

[Valarian in reply to LAHs]

Not disagreeing with you, just emphasising that there is almost certainly nothing to worry about. I couldn’t find the article I read a while back, but I read somewhere that 50% of women have nodules by age 50, 60% by age 60, etc.

btf-thyroid.org/information...

[LAHs in reply to Valarian]

Hi Valerian, yes, I agree. I was just on the wrong side of those percentages so I was a bit more skewed on the pessimistic side than I should have been.