Total frustration at lack of progress with T4 and GP (UK)

[Yammie1973]

Well, I am going for my next set of blood tests with Medichecks (simply because I can't trust my GP to order them all and secondly because he is not thyroid specialist trained) I told him that the TSH is a load of codswallop and was archaic means of accurately measuring the thyroid function...Said that he would, hesitantly, refer me to the endo (NHS endo, I don't think so...he/she will still be controlled with the noose that is N.I.C.E!)

Last time I went to a 'private' endo, she offered to increase my T4 so that my TSH went down...Er, pardon, I'm already on 200mcg per day...Every other GP/consultant I have spoken to have said that is way too much already.

Sorry for the rant....but please can someone wake up the medical establishment and drag them into the 21st century!!

[greygoose]

Actually, dosing by the TSH is not archaic, it's quite a modern concept. And, even if the GP does order FT4/FT3 the lab often refuse to do it.

Some people need 200 mcg levo. You cannot judge a dose by the number of mcg, but by the FT4/3 results and the way people feel. So, if those GPs/specialists didn't take those thing into consideration, they were wrong.