Sitting in A&E 4 hours wait😱

[birkie]

as u do in A&E you sit thinking about things, a diabetic patient as come in due to a bad fall 😔 but as not taken her insulin, she is taken into a room where I take she is given her injection, as I have trouble taking T4 T3 in tablet form and are waiting on liquid levoroxine, I just thought I wonder how many of us who struggle with bowle /stomach issues who get side affects from some thyroid meds would prefer an injection right in to the vain, and not a tablet sitting on our stomach waiting to be absorbed then converted.. 🤔. Just a thought for the day.. 👍

[SeasideSusie Remembering]

helvella touched on something similar the other day with this post

healthunlocked.com/thyroidu...

You'd think there would be alternatives but I suppose hypothyroidism isn't exciting enough to warrant any interest or time and money being spent on developing them.

[Buddy195 Administrator]

How are you after your trip to A and E birkie? Hoping all ok 👍

[birkie in reply to Buddy195]

still here Buddy195.. Got bloods done and urine, now they think it could be ANOTHER kidney stone, I'm sick of the buggers.. 😭

[Buddy195 Administrator in reply to birkie]

That sounds very painful birkie. What treatment options are there?

[birkie in reply to Buddy195]

doc is trying to organise a scan 👍

[Auders]

hope you feeling better soon, sending you hugs x

[serenfach]

Interestingly if you go into A+E with very low thyroid levels, and some with bad Covid, they are given a drip of T3. They know the body can use this straight away.

[birkie in reply to serenfach]

yeah probably the same as insulin, I've only been a sufferer of my thyroid condition since around 2017 when I knew something was wrong with me.. And not the menupause like my gp kept insisting😠.. I was eventually diagnosed in sep 2018 then full thyroidectomy in May 2019...ive got to say its been sheer hell the way we are treated by the medical professionals, the very people who are supposed to be looking after our health, I'm still struggling, my gp and endo have chopped and changed my thyroid meds because firstly I'm lactose intolerant and have colitis.. So of course the first thyroid meds they put me on contains lactose I suffered for over 4 months, then gp changed me to teva T4 didn't get on with that, I eventually got on T3 which did restore my T3 level,but was so hard to obtain, my gp wanted me off it, and she eventually go her way putting me bk on T4, I'm now trying liquid levoroxine, but I can tell you if I get any side affects or my thyroid levels do not improve in 3 months I'm going to be very angry 😠😠😠😠

[serenfach]

Your story is so similar to others on here, it makes me so cross we are treated like this! Have you looked into NDT? It changed me from a slug to a racing snail...

[birkie in reply to serenfach]

never been offered NDT through my surgery or endo, they just keep chopping and changing me thinking it well work.. 2022 and I'm still struggling and to put the cat amongst the pigeons in 2020 my calcium went over range as did my parathyroid hormone, and what do the specialists do.. Scratch their heads as to what to do.. And now my calcium and parathyroid hormone have gone bk into range, but both being at the top end of normal ( which they should not be) the endo as dismissed me😠 I was diagnosed in 2004 with early onset of primary hyperparathiyroidism then got a normal blood test bk and was dismissed, got diagnosed with cfs/fibro later that year, sure now this was a miss diagnoses as I've gone on to develop kidney stones, ostiopein, list 5 teeth, got calcification in most joints and heart due to over range calcium over the years.. I could go on.. But its to laughable how they miss things.. 😠😠😠