Re: Seeking Advice on Doctors in the UK

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As members are not allowed to discuss doctors on the forum they need your permission to write to you privately with the information you need.Lilian

I am new to this group and looking for advice regarding doctors in the UK.

 Does anyone have personal experience with any of these UK based doctors: Dr Chapman, Dr. Gordon Skinner, Dr Downing? I am willing to go to the UK to visit a doctor if it will mean feeling better.  Any feedback concerning these doctors would be greatly appreciated.

Also, does anyone know where I can order natural desiccated thyroid if I want to try and go through this treatment myself? Is there any way to get this without prescription?

Thanks!

Georgina

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Hello Georgina

If you cannot find a doctor willing to treat you with natural

thyroid extract or give you adrenal support, you can actually do this yourself

- and you can buy medication from recommended Internet Pharmacies without

prescription. However, I do not know whether any of the doctors you mention

will treat low adrenal reserve unless you have 's disease (little or no

cortisol secretion) or Cushing's Syndrome (too high a level of cortisol

secretion). The one doctor I would highly recommend in your case would be Dr

Barry Durrant Peatfield (one of our medical advisers). You can see where he

holds his clinics throughout the UK by going to our web site www.tpqa-uk.org.uk and clicking on 'Dr

Peatfield's metabolic Clinics update' in the right hand column on our Home Page

under 'TPA News'.

You might help yourself by completing the Adrenal Questionnaire

accessible in our FILES section. See the Menu on the Home Page of this Forum,

click on FILES, and on the page that opens, open the Adrenal Folder, and scroll

down until you see the 'Adrenal Questionnaire'. Go through that and see how you

score and let us know. You can also get tested to check out your levels of cortisol

and DHEA. Again, in our FILES section, scroll down to 'Discounts' folder, and

in the list, click on 'Genova Diagnostics'. There, you will see that TPA

members can get a discount on Thyroid, Adrenal and Candida Testing. Follow the

instructions there to claim your discount not forgetting to put 'Thyroid

Patient Advocacy' as your practitioner.

Are you taking 200mcgs Selenium daily to help with the

conversion of T4 into the active thyroid hormone T3? Are you taking

1000/2000mgs vitamin C daily?

If you are not getting well on levothyroxine alone, I would

first recommend you get your thyroid function tested to see where your serum T4

and T3 lies - also your TSH. Send these to us together with the reference range

for each of the tests done.

Once again, go to our FILES and open the Folder 'Natural Thyroid

Extract' and in there you will see the file entitled 'How to Use natural

Thyroid Extract' which tells you exactly how you should self-medicate using

this. There are now several brands of thyroid extract, and you can see where to

buy these by scrolling down through the Files to one entitled 'Internet

Pharmacies'. However, before you do that, you need to ensure that you get the

following tested to make sure your levels are not low - these are ferritin,

vitamin B12, vitamin D3, magnesium, folate, copper and zinc. If any are low, no

amount of thyroid hormone can be properly absorbed into the cells until

whatever is low is supplemented.

also, if you do you have adrenal reserve and you need to start

supporting your adrenals through glandulars, you must stop your thyroid hormone

for at least a week when starting adrenal supplements and then introduce your

thyroid hormone again.

I hope this has been helpful to you.

Luv - Sheila

I was diagnosed with Hashimoto hypothyroid about 2 years ago. I live in Cyprus

where doctors only treat using T4. I feel like this treatment is not working

for me (I still suffer with many of the symptoms like low grade depression,

fatigue, anxiety, etc) and wish to find a doctor who is open to testing

adrenals and prescribing desiccated thyroid.

Does anyone have personal experience with any of these UK based doctors: Dr

Chapman, Dr. Gordon Skinner, Dr Downing? I am willing to go to the UK to visit

a doctor if it will mean feeling better. Any feedback concerning these doctors

would be greatly appreciated.

Also, does anyone know where I can order natural desiccated thyroid if I want

to try and go through this treatment myself? Is there any way to get this

without prescription?

Thanks!

Georgina