Any one else got a psychic GP?

[Jooju2004]

Beyond baffled! Had a phone call from my GP surgery today to tell me they have stopped my ferritin and vitamin D because my last blood test was within range. They didn’t stop my folate or b12 injections but these were also ‘within range’.

...,the best bit - the last blood test we are referring to was over 18 months ago!😂🤷🏼‍♀️

And I am ‘within range’ whilst on the supplements... who knew?!

I’ve made an appointment with my GP to congratulate them on their amazing psychic powers ... so clever of them to know that I don’t need those meds any more without even seeing me or speaking to me, much less testing my blood!

I’m sure they factored in my chronic sun allergy when they decided I don’t need that silly old vitamin D any more too! The last time I was exposed to sunlight was around 1984!

Can my GP get this week’s stupidity award?

Just arrrggghhhhhhhh!!! 🤦🏼‍♀️

[MissGrace]

Wish I could be a fly on the wall for your appointment. Do post to let us know about it. Try not to call him a tw*t or a charlatan! 🤸🏿‍♀️🥛

[Burtandmotor in reply to MissGrace]

Here here bless..... I have given up on the so called medical profession my one is over prescribing morphine but mention the word T3 and the dust cloud appears :)

[Blondiejayjay in reply to Burtandmotor]

My husband calls the medical profession “educated idiots”

[Missy1968 in reply to Blondiejayjay]

That’s why they call it “practicing” medicine, they haven’t got it right yet.

[Jooju2004 in reply to Missy1968]

Lol... I’m a lawyer, not sure what this statement says about me too! (Probably accurate, in fairness😃)

[Hidden in reply to Jooju2004]

I'm tempted to tell a lawyer joke. A dying businessman friend made him promise, to try and prove the "You can't take it with you" saying, to put a large amount of money he left in his will into his coffin.

The lawyer did just that - a cheque for the full amount!

[Burtandmotor]

Yes 100% and hundreds of gold stars... i agree with MssGrace :)

[Hidden]

As long as your GP doesn't have a crystal ball on his desk where the computer should be and offer to read your palm for diagnosis 😁

[Angel_of_the_North in reply to Hidden]

Might be more accurate than most GPs

[Skeeter1956]

Last year the NHS changed prescription guidelines changed . Certain meds and vitamins that could be got over the counter are no longer prescribed . I would imagine Vitamin D and ferritin fall into that category . Your Doctor might not be a psychic after all but just following the new dictat laid down from above .

[Blondiejayjay in reply to Skeeter1956]

But they can prescribe if it’s directly linked to your condition which I would argue it is. Isn’t that why we are given a medical exemption certificate because thyroid disease affects every cell in the body

[Skeeter1956 in reply to Blondiejayjay]

I agree 100% patients conditions should be as treated as a whole and not comparmentalised .

[Jooju2004 in reply to Skeeter1956]

I do get that, but I think if someone has a medical condition (or in my case, 2) that means I would be medically unwell without the medication, the GP possibly shouldn’t withdraw it without so much as a conversation.

[Skeeter1956 in reply to Jooju2004]

Couldn't agree more .

[Tuscansun]

You can fight with them or you can just buy over the counter or order online - it will cost you cheaper than prescription. I use Higher Nature Vit D - it’s in capsules and pretty good.

[Jooju2004 in reply to Tuscansun]

Yeah I don’t mind buying them if I have to but I do mind being told my levels are fine when they haven’t seen me for months and haven’t tested since May last year. That’s appalling patient care.

(I don’t pay for prescriptions though as anyone with a thyroid condition can get an exemption certificate so on prescription would be my first choice).

[Tuscansun]

I agree - NHS needs serious reforms. Their current system doesn’t work, at least not for patients.

Sorry, didn’t know about exemption certificate.

[humanbean in reply to Tuscansun]

The "current system doesn't work" is deliberate. More and more treatments are being removed, and fewer and fewer conditions are being treated.

Dustbin diagnoses are being handed out like confetti and patients are told they have a mental illness and need CBT and more exercise, rather than investigate the actual cause of their illness.

So people are being told they have depression, anxiety, IBS, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, a functional syndrome of some kind, conversion disorder, somatic symptom disorder, bodily distress disorder or syndrome, and probably any number of other conditions that all add up to one thing - the patient's problems are in their head, they won't be investigated, and they will be dismissed with CBT and exercise as "treatments" probably with anti-depressants thrown into the mix as well.

The whole idea is to drive those who can afford it into the arms of the private sector because, after all, if something costs money there must be a profit in it somewhere, if only people can be driven to pay.

[Jooju2004 in reply to humanbean]

So right ... and it’s so wrong! I know the nhs is struggling but they are creating a much bigger problem!

[ELLSBELLS]

My vitamin D was stopped ages ago and when my doctor tried to prescribe beconase a few months ago "the computer said no". Anything which can be purchased over the counter is not prescribed . I do have friends who are being prescribed such vitamins and medicines at different surgeries in the same commisssioning group. Perhaps some surgeries enforce such recommendations more than others, but this is unfair as different patients are receiving different levels of care from a national health service.

[Jooju2004 in reply to ELLSBELLS]

It’s crazy isn’t it. My partner has fibromyalgia and is on vit d ‘for life’ (it says it on her prescriptions😃)... and we’re at the same GP practice!

[LindaC]

Yup, The Psychic School of Medicine... in the fields that we are forced to deal with, seems there's not an inking of science in sight... too busy falling over their egos xox

[Jooju2004]

Exactly! I would be far less likely to whinge and far more likely to just accept that the NHS guidelines have changed if they had explained the reasoning instead of using the blood test results from May 2018 as a basis for their decision. I feel so sorry for the patients who don’t know enough about their own conditions to challenge their GP!

[Hidden]

To be fair, there ARE some GPs who do indeed have a clue about thyroid, but the system is so busy trying to hog-tie them that they are often as helpless as their patients

[Jooju2004 in reply to Hidden]

And to be fair to the GP I choose to see at my practice that’s the case - after months of drip feeding my levo increases I went to her and said I function best with suppressed TSH ... she upped my dose from 100mcg to 150mcg (not all in one go). They are out there but if they want me to pay for vitamins they should just say instead of the weird phone call business🙄

[Hidden]

this may not be an example of a psychic GP, however, one of the doctors I saw a while ago, told me that t3 is another type of levo (very far fetched interpretation). Another one told me that I should be taking 600 units of vit D a day...so I said to her that on 4,000 units I'm insufficient - couldn't believe it! I also got a copy of what I should eat to lower my cholesterol/calories - I'm already doing more than on that silly sheet. Next time I hear that have high cholesterol I will ask them to cut through my vein to have a look inside and all of this non-sense while paying 50-60 euro for 5 minutes of stand up comedy.

[Gillybean1]

Hi Jooju2004

I feel an ABBA song coming on " Money - Money - Money"..........oh dear beggers belief, good luck with your next GP visit,

Every best wish, G