Re: CASE STUDY - WANTED URGENTLY Sheila

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Luv Ali

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That is awful! So basically what that says is anyone who has symptoms and signs

of hypothyroidism, but whose blood results fall within the range designated

'normal' is making it up. And what doctors need to do, rather than question why

otherwise sane people would go around inventing symptoms for themselves to

suffer, is to just find better ways of communicating to patients that their

symptoms are all in their imaginations. Oh, and it's all because of

'postmodernism' and the internet, of course.

I don't think I've ever read anything so disgustingly arrogant in all my life!

I knew fine well I was hypothyroid long before it was ever diagnosed. I went to

the doctors several times, with ever-worsening symptoms, and they did nothing

for me, nothing at all, until finally my blood tests showed that what I had been

saying all along was right! How can they claim my symptoms were in my

imagination? It's just that I understood my body and knew something was wrong,

and my body showed this in the form of quite dramatic symptoms, long before it

showed up on my tests.

I don't know about anyone else but I have got better things to do with my life

than go back and forth to the doctors, having needles stuck in me and taking

time off work just to try to get well from some imaginary illness that I don't

really have.

I really hope that the press take this up and there is some real pressure on the

medical establishment to start listening to patients. The way we are treated at

the moment makes me so angry. We deserve so much better.

Georgie

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> Whose Thyroid Hormone Replacement is it Anyway?

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> A. P. Weetman

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> meantime we must avoid endocrinological collusion as a strategy, which in

> turn requires the avoidance of thyroid hormone treatment of euthyroid

> individuals, a robust defence of the biochemical basis for the diagnosis of

> hypothyroidism and institution of replacement with synthetic thyroxine as

> the standard, rather than Armour thyroid extract.

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