Finding a thyroid specialist

[Sazzle1969]

Hello, can anyone advise how to get better thyroid treatment and a specialist who can treat specific thyroid problems. I've had 3 years of getting nowhere with my practice and really need a specialist I think.

[SeasideSusie Remembering]

Sazzle1969

You can send for the list of thyroid friendly endos from Dionne at ThyroidUK:

email: [e-mail]

You can also send for the list of private doctors and practioners by using the contact form on ThyroidUK's main website:

thyroiduk.org/help-support/...

However, before doing anything about seeing them, there are many experienced patients on this forum who will be happy to help you if you post full thyroid/vitamin test results as there may be something obvious in there. SlowDragon recommended the best test in reply to your previous thread.

[fuchsia-pink]

Most endos are diabetes specialists and don't know much about thyroid. If there's no-one on Dionne's list that's convenient for you, it's worth looking at the details of consultants in the hospitals near you and see if any of them mention thyroid in their little biographies.

Or you can do what I do, and use an endo for prescriptions and this forum for actual advice!

[SlowDragon Administrator]

ALWAYS get FULL Thyroid and vitamin testing BEFORE booking consultation

If vitamin levels are low working on improving these is frequently first step

[Sazzle1969]

Hi, many thanks, all, I've just ordered a full thyroid test kit on Medichecks including full vitamin check and reverse T3. I'll do that and then post the results once I have them in. So grateful for all the advice today - I've felt very alone with this problem till now and it is great to speak to people who understand and can help. Thank you again

[SeasideSusie Remembering in reply to Sazzle1969]

Sazzle1969

Do you have someone to do a venous blood draw for you?

[Sazzle1969]

I will have to go to my local A&E to have them done, I've done that with a Medichecks test in the past

[SeasideSusie Remembering in reply to Sazzle1969]

Are you sure they will do the blood draw for you during the current Covid situation?

If not then change your order to the Ultravit as you can do that with a fingerprick test. There is no real point in testing reverse T3. Even if it is high it's not going to tell you why it's high and there are many reasons for high rT3 and only one of them is to do with the thyroid, and that is if you have an excess of unconverted T4 and that will be shown by a high FT4 with a low FT3 which the Ultravit test will show.