The foolish GP I saw at the beginning of November completely ignored me when I told him the Nortriptyline was causing the shaking, palpitations, headache. And insisted on booking me in for a whole raft of unecessary blood tests including thyroid , again. Even though everything has been checked repeatedly several times in the summer.
I was just ignoring them and hoping they'd forget about me but I had the surgery reminding me again. So rather miffed I emailed them, explained my side effects had disappeared within days of stopping the Nortriptyline, as I predicted. I've previous experience with it due to Fibro.
I said it was a waste of my time and precious NHS resources and I saw no reason to have blood tests which wouldn't say anything different to what was satisfactory in June. And could they please remove the request. And much to my surprise they have. My parathyroid needs rechecking as it was elevated in August and I 'm happy to get that rechecked but I do wish doctors would listen to patients.
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GPs do seem to ‘need’ to do things, especially creating new and useless and even damaging interventions. They never seem to consider the shocking waste of resources. It’s almost too easy for them to shift the ‘problem’ elsewhere (except hypothyroidism as the endos have made sure we don’t get anywhere near them). The system really is inefficient. They clearly do not have any confidence in their ‘critical thinking’ skills and it would seem with good reason. What I would like (after years of being undiagnosed hypothyroid) is that now there is a focus, an answer to my problems, why can’t they just concentrate on getting that right? I am sure a very long T3 prescription cost could be covered comfortably by a week in intensive care, a drug regime of 17 pills per day for years, 2 angiograms, ultrasounds, a useless diagnosis of sleep apnoea which now increases my housebound (ness) after removal of my licence ………. I could go on. Really I have a more and more depressing view of the NHS. No wonder it is in such a mess.
100% agree. I've probably got the world record for the sheer number of liver profiles performed, always absolutely normal. What a pointless waste. I'd rather a doctor admited they dont know rather than trying to cover their lack of knowledge by palming us off on yet more blood tests.
Which won't tell them anything. I knew what the cause of my symptoms was. My husband put his finger on it, they have to seen to be doing something, and it gets you out of their practice office 😪.
A big emphasis on both those observations - knowledge and getting you out of the surgery asap. If they worked in a factory or a fast food enterprise they would be sacked.
don’t they just! sending someone for chlamydia /gonorrhoea swabs who has been married for 22 years and has non specific pelvic pains is another example…. Packed off to women’s health for more pointless appointments, I could tell you what those results would show 🙈😬
This started from a complaint I made to my GP about insomnia and daytime sleepiness. GP never suggested that it was a symptom of hypothyroidism and it was at a time when I did not have a grip on what was happening to me - no info from GP. The daytime sleepiness has gone, whilst I still have insomnia. Trying to cut it short here. Given a CPAP machine that is impossible to use (and I don’t think I need it) but this diagnosis is following me. I don’t know how to get rid of it other than asking for another ‘test’. I just can’t deal with it at the moment. Emphasis on seeing endo in two weeks and hoping I can get further sorted. Please don’t anyone go down this road in desperation. Be sure if you have insomnia, as opposed to being woken during the night for peeing etc, that you don’t go down this road unless you have a real reason to think this is the problem!
Ok I understand , I was also diagnosed with mild sleep apnea after complaining about being tired constantly after my thyroidectomy. I can’t use the sleep apnea machine either it causes me horrendous heartburn and only allows me to sleep for couple of hours … I sleep more without the machine so I just stopped using it. As soon as you say your tired it automatically is chalked up to sleep apnea and nothing else is looked at.
To my utter dismay YES. Someone did mention it ages ago on the forum. Unfortunately I was already diagnosed. I have thought about getting the gum shield thingy (if I need it which I seriously doubt), which might be better. Unfortunately it costs a lot. I wish I had discovered the forum before I got involved. It would have saved me so much trouble.
Its a device which when in your mouth slightly pushes your chin forward. An orthodontist makes it. You can breathe normally without the faff of a CPAP machine. Unfortunately about £1k last time I looked.
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Parathyroid
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Access Blood Results in Northern Ireland - Help Required Please.
How long should I wait before annoying the GP again?
