doctor rant & success story

[Guest guest]

I just saw a new doctor this morning -- actually, it's the second time I've seen

him. The

first time I told him my whole history and said I was looking for a doctor

comfortable with

allowing my to suppress my TSH if that's what it took to feel better and left

him my copy

of Dr. Lowe's book with the chapter marked on other ways to test for

thyrotixicity to show

I was reasonable and would do other tests, just that I wouldn't be controlled by

the TSH.

Today I walked in and he said he'd read all the information and all my previous

tests and

frankly didn't believe I had a thyroid problem, didn't believe I had a cortisol

problem, and

would only be willing to treat me if I went off of all my hormones & supplements

for 4

weeks so that he could get his own baseline tests done.

Where do these idiots get trained? Symptoms are no longer any basis for medical

treatment, apparently! I suppose they're all just worried about malpractice

without the

holy lab results.

That was doctor number 4 and I'm getting tired of it. So far I've done pretty

good for

myself with STTM and here. I'd *like* to have a doctor, I'd *like* to not be

self-treating,

but I'm not sure there's any good ones here.

Anyway on the bright side, I've been feeling really great for a few weeks now.

I even

started weaning off cortisol. I didn't think it would ever happen, but I

actually started

feeling like I was taking too much. Something switched on between one week and

the

next, and suddenly instead of feeling like I was just OK at 25mg I got the

racing thoughts

& anxiety back again and weaned back to 10mg -- and feel fine again. I don't

know

whether it was my basic health reaching some threshold or the Iodoral I started

taking two

weeks ago, but I know when I started reading this forum and doing research and

bumping

into so many problems (and getting yelled at by doctors for taking too much of

everything)

I didn't think I'd ever get off the cortisol. And I'm not off it yet, and I

don't know I'm

better yet since it's only been a few weeks, but in any case I've sure made a

lot of

progress.

So Thanks so much Val for answering questions and having this group here, I

don't know

if you literally saved my life but you sure saved my life as I knew it and

wanted to keep it.

You don't even know me and you've done so much more for me than any doctor has.

:-)

Lia