so my last update really...

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No luck with the doc so never mind about the Total T3 - I never heard back

anyway....

Said can't prescribe Levothyroxine to someone in the normal range, that would be

irresponsible (with a nod to the GMC)

Seemed sympathetic to what i was saying, about loss of quaility of life, but not

enough. Nothing I said could convince her to even a month's trial (didn't think

it was the right thing for me) dispite perfect blood work elsewhere showing the

consitution of an ox and that it was unlikely to damage me permanently!

so called her bluff, asked her what WAS the right thing for me - she couldn't

give me an answer and said she was going to " ask an endo " . I volunteered that if

the GMC had indicated to HER that no one in normal range should be allowed levo

- surely they are goverened by the same body and will say the same thing?

I asked what the problem about giving out to normal range people was? was it a

cost issue and tightening the purse strings? She said no, gave an example that

docs historically were quite happy to hand out things like valium and steriods

to later find that they were damaging to the body.

So that's that. i can't afford private care so kinda at the end of the road

now. Perhaps when i'm older and my symptoms are worse i will be entitled to be

looked after by the same NHS that spends billions on peeople willingly poisoning

themsleves with nictotine.