Re: Daughter with symptoms but borderline levels

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Your daughter should not have to wait so long for such an

appointment. If she is suffering with symptoms of hypothyroidism then she needs

to be seen fairly quickly and started on thyroid hormone replacement (if this

is what is needed) immediately. Have you been given an actual date for a

consultants appointment. You could ask your daughters GP to refer her to

another doctor elsewhere, I will send you a list of doctors recommended by our

members. You do not have to see the consultant chosen by your doctor if you

don't wish to.

It would be good if doctors would give a trial of thyroxine to

see whether that helped with symptoms, but they will not do this. If the

thyroxine helped with symptoms then the dose would be increased. If it didn't

help, then they would stop thyroxine and look for other causes for her symptoms.

Sounds so easy, but nothing is easy with this disease when it comes to the

training our doctors receive at medical school - which I sometimes thinks is

nil.

Check out the list of doctors I send you and then talk to the

GP.

Meanwhile, I would ask your daughter to ask the GP to test her

levels of iron, transferrin saturation%, ferritin, vitamin B12, vitamin D3,

magnesium, folate, copper and zinc. If any of these are low in the range even

her own thyroid hormone will not be able to be fully utilised at the cellular

level until whatever is low has been properly supplemented. Check out the

attached document that show references to just some of the research/studies

that has been done to show the connection between these low levels and low

thyroid.

Luv - Sheila

Hi, new to the forum today but I am hoping for

some help for my 17 year old daughter. She has been suffering underactive

thyroid symptoms for a few years now, initially testing was being done every

twelve months but we are now at every 2-3 months and they still show

borderline. The GP has said she is going to refer her to our local hospital

which will mean a wait of five months for an appointment and I am fed up with

all of it, my daughter is quite poorly at the moment and cant do much she is so

tired, I am thinking of just saying to GP why cant they trial her on some

medication but just dont know what to do really, anybody else been in this

situation that has any advice would be great. Thanks for reading.

Elaine

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Dear Elaine,

My daughters symptoms started when she was 14 years old - She had the usual

blood tests but all came back normal - Things got much worse after a severe bout

of influenze and she struggled with fatigue and other symptoms too. They seemed

to get worse with her cycle - she lost a lot of time from school but luckily her

grades didn't suffer - fast forward to today -- I've had many problems trying to

get her the correct medical help - her TSH has steadily climbed to 3.22 --

she's quite poorlY - She's just pulled out of college because she can no longer

focus on her A levels --- I'm very disappointed with the doctors and frustrated

to the hilt. I've been struggling to cope but I try to stay strong for my

daughter - the whole thing has been a nightmare experience and has left me with

very little faith in mainstream medicine. Will be posting my story on the forum

tomorrow. My daughter has just turned 18 - more or less the same age as yours

... You are not alone ... Hang in there, but keep fighting for your daughter.

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> Hi, new to the forum today but I am hoping for some help for my 17 year old

> daughter. She has been suffering underactive thyroid symptoms for a few

> years now, initially testing was being done every twelve months but we are

> now at every 2-3 months and they still show borderline. The GP has said she

> is going to refer her to our local hospital which will mean a wait of five

> months for an appointment and I am fed up with all of it, my daughter is

> quite poorly at the moment and cant do much she is so tired, I am thinking

> of just saying to GP why cant they trial her on some medication but just

> dont know what to do really, anybody else been in this situation that has

> any advice would be great. Thanks for reading.

>

> Elaine

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Hi Elaine, as you are not happy with main stream medicine why not see one of our experts, Dr P or Dr S.??at lease it will give you the confidence to understand how to self treat her. yes i know not a happy thought, but to get the right care for her you may have to go down this road. i don`t get help from my doctor and now self treat. Dr P first diagnosed me in 1990. and the only way to get back my life was to come away from main stream medicine and do a lot of research and look after myself, as you only have one chance and one life.if she stays like this what will her life be worth, she deserves better. angel.