Appointment Yorkshire with Dr P

[Guest guest]

Sheila are there any appointments available for Keighley? After trying again

with the levo being on 25cmg for 3 days 4th day 50 dropping back to 25 up to 50

on 4th day Ive repeated this pattern since 22 Dec I decided to stop. Ive not

taken any since 3 days ago, cant stand the pains in my fingers, swollen, my jaw

articulation elbows, all the vertabrae in the back of my neck, wrists, feet, etc

etc, also dreadful palpitacions that never cease, hot sweats continual panic

attacks, Ive got no where with this dr in Spain, havent been able to sleep

wakeup in the middle of the night, have this awful sensation in my chest like I

cant breath, have tried beta blockers nothing works, what can I do? Can some one

please tell me what they think Spain

[Guest guest]

Oh dear , I am so sorry but all the appointments have

been taken up and Dr P is working from 9.00a.m. through to 7.00p.m. each night,

and even working through his lunch hour so that we can fit everybody in. Also,

we have two people waiting for a cancellation, so even if I put your name on

the list, it is quite unlikely you would be lucky.

I think there could probably be an associated condition going

along with your hypothyroidism that is stopping the thyroid hormone from

working as it should. Check out the following, and go through each one by way

of a process of elimination.The main condition responsible for stopping thyroid

hormone from working is, quite simply, a patient’s thyroxine dose is too

low because the doctor or consultant refuses to increase it, because the serum

thyroid function test results appear OK. Sometimes, the thyroxine dose is too

high, yet patients still don't feel well. They continue to suffer. Some

reasons for this:

They

may be suffering with low adrenal reserve. The production of T4, its conversion

to T3, and the receptor uptake requires a normal amount of adrenal hormones,

notably, of course, cortisone. (Excess cortisone can shut production down,

however.) This is what happens if the adrenals are not responding properly, and

provision of cortisone usually switches it on again. But sometimes it

doesn’t. If the illness has been going on for a long time, the

enzyme seems to fail. This conversion failure (inexplicably denied by

many endocrinologists) means the thyroxine builds up, unconverted. So it

doesn’t work, and T4 toxicosis results. This makes the patient feel quite

unwell, toxic, often with palpitations and chest pain. If provision of adrenal

support doesn’t remedy the situation, the final solution is the use of

the active thyroid hormone, already converted, T3 - either synthetic or natural.

Then,

we have systemic candidiasis. This is where candida albicans, yeast, which

causes skin infections almost anywhere in the body, invades the lining of the

lower part of the small intestine and the large intestine. Here, the

candida sets up residence in the warmth and the dark, and demands to be

fed. Loving sugars and starches, candida can make you suffer terrible

sweet cravings. Candida can produce toxins which can cause very many

symptoms of exhaustion, headache, general illness, and which interfere with the

uptake of thyroid and adrenal treatment. Sometimes the levels - which we

usually test for - can be very high, and make successful treatment difficult to

achieve until adequately treated.

Then

there is receptor resistance which could be a culprit. Being hypothyroid

for some considerable time may mean the biochemical mechanisms which permit the

binding of T3 to the receptors, is downgraded - so the T3 won’t go

in. With slow build up of T3, with full adrenal support and adequate

vitamins and minerals, the receptors do come on line again. But this can

be quite a slow process, and care has to be taken to build the dose up

gradually.

And

then there are Food allergies. The most common food allergy is allergy to

gluten, the protein fraction of wheat. The antibody generated by the body, by a

process of molecular mimicry, cross reacts with the thyroperoxidase enzyme,

(which makes thyroxine) and shuts it down. So allergy to bread can make

you hypothyroid. There may be other food allergies with this kind of effect,

but information on these is scanty. Certainly allergic response to

certain foods can affect adrenal function and imperil thyroid production and

uptake.

Then

we have hormone imbalances. The whole of the endocrine system is linked; each

part of it needs the other parts to be operating normally to work

properly. An example of this we have seen already, with cortisone.

But another example is the operation of sex hormones. The imbalance that

occurs at the menopause with progesterone running down, and a relative

dominance of oestrogen is a further case in point – oestrogen dominance

downgrades production, transportation and uptake of thyroid hormones.

This is why hypothyroidism may first appear at the menopause; the symptoms

ascribed to this alone, which is then treated – often with extra

oestrogen, making the whole thing worse. Deficiency in progesterone most

especially needs to be dealt with, since it reverses oestrogen dominance,

improves many menopausal symptoms like sweats and mood swings, and reverses

osteoporosis. Happily natural progesterone cream is easily obtained: when

used it has the added benefit of helping to stabilise adrenal function.

Then,

we must never forget the possibility of mercury poisoning (through amalgam

fillings) and low levels of iron, transferring saturation%, ferritin, vitamin

B12, vitamin D3, magnesium, folate, copper and zinc - all of which, if low,

stop the thyroid hormone from being utilised by the cells - these have to be

treated. Ask your GP to give you tests to check if these are low. This is very

important.

The

above problems must be eliminated if thyroid hormone isn't working for you.

Go

to our FILES section accessible from the Home Page of this forum web site http://health.groups,./group/thyroid treatment/Files/

and in the page that opens, scroll down to 'Medical Questionnaires' and answer

the questions on the Adrenal one, the Candida one and the Magnesium one and let

us know how you score.

I

have sent you a list of doctors recommended by our members but these are

doctors who will prescribe using some form of T3 as well as T4, so not sure

whether any of these would be OK for you, but most definitely because they do

treat using T3, they know a little more about thyroid disease than the average

doc!

Luv

- Sheila

Sheila are there any appointments available for

Keighley? After trying again with the levo being on 25cmg for 3 days 4th day 50

dropping back to 25 up to 50 on 4th day Ive repeated this pattern since 22 Dec

I decided to stop. Ive not taken any since 3 days ago, cant stand the pains in

my fingers, swollen, my jaw articulation elbows, all the vertabrae in the back

of my neck, wrists, feet, etc etc, also dreadful palpitacions that never cease,

hot sweats continual panic attacks, Ive got no where with this dr in Spain,

havent been able to sleep wakeup in the middle of the night, have this awful

sensation in my chest like I cant breath, have tried beta blockers nothing

works, what can I do? Can some one please tell me what they think

Spain

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