Doctor will not listen

[Gillybabe48]

I still have joint pain and nausea in the morning and headaches. Just feeling under par all the time. Stomach cramps and very painful leg and feet cramps. My tests show TSH 0.18 and T4 12 ranges TSH 0.30 to 4.50 and T4 7.50 to 20. I think my T4 is still low but they say TSH is 0.18 which is verging on suppressed and hyper.

[SeasideSusie Remembering]

Did you get Vit D, B12, folate and ferritin tested, as suggested by SlowDragon in reply to your previous post. These are important and if not already done then I'd test them now.

[Gillybabe48 in reply to SeasideSusie]

Cannot afford to go private.

[SeasideSusie Remembering in reply to Gillybabe48]

Optimal levels are essential for thyroid hormone to work properly. Ask your GP to test them.

You don't have to see a private doctor for private blood tests and you could look out for a special offer from Medichecks or use their 10% discount code THYROIDUK. Their Thyroid Check ULTRAVIT includes all these along with the full thyroid panel, and is regularly on offer at £79.

Joint pain is associated with low Vit D. Cramps can sometimes be helped by magnesium, I rub magnesium gel onto my foot when I get a cramp there.

[danym]

what meds are you taking? it can be the fillers in the meds that make u feel like this, generic levo was awful for me, bone and joint pain, but i did good for years on Tirosint.

[Gillybabe48 in reply to danym]

Wockhaart and Actavis. 50 Actavis and 25 Wockhaart

[Windwalker]

It is my opinion that doctors are barely out of the stone age. Drug salesmen show up with a new drug and tell them to try it and will reward them with a trip somewhere exotic if he writes enough prescriptions and he or she does it for reason not medical. RLS -- a term a lot of doctors never heard so when anyone complains they don't know which specialist to refer them and when they refer out the neurologists ( in my case) say we will try this and keep trying until something helps. It is like the Columbus keep going until you see an island then land on it. There is no medicine made for an ailment that 10% of the world is afflicted with and there will be none as long as neurologists keep prescribing ''off label'' drugs, looking for one that gives a modicum of relief. Give him this, give him that, see if this will work, change the dose until he passes out or gets better and if he doesn't crack his head open we will reduce the dose, yata,yata,yata, we are orphans who are in need of a champion. Perhaps when a drug CEO hasn't slept for 10 nights running and some doctor tells him there is no drug recommended for RLS