Re: Plateau'sville (grrrrrrr) (long)

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Oops, sorry. Didn't see the original post hung out there.

M

Fw: Plateau'sville (grrrrrrr) (long)

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> > Hi Everyone,

> > Well, I finally decided to find a different doctor who would run

> > additional thyroid testing for me. I am just furious!

> > My present pcp refused to run anything other than a TSH test. I

> begged

> > her to and she refused, saying that the TSH level was all that I needed

to

> > have done and that she needed to drop my dosage again! (they changed

the

> > brand of pill when I moved here and they have continually dropped my

> dosage

> > for the last 7 years (from .250 to .150 and dropping)! With symptoms

all

> of

> > this time of constant weight gain, hair falling out, cold all the time,

> tired

> > every day after about noon, and on and on...their response was " your TSH

> is

> > low....we need to drop your thyroid meds again!....dahhh .....thus

> weight

> > gain and symptoms!

> > So, when she refused to run more thyroid tests a few weeks

ago....and

> > because I am working so hard to lose more weight and the scale is not

> > co-operating.....I finally found an internist in the cities who offices

> with

> > an Endicrinologist...(couldn't see the Endo until February).....

> > He ran extra Thyroid tests.......My T-3 is only 54 (should be

> 80-200)

> > !!!!!! All that has been treated for the last 7 years is my

T-4...(when

> > some rinky dink doctor changed my brand of med 7 years ago.....the new

> brand

> > only treated T-4 and not T-3....the old brand treated both T-4 and

> > T-3!!!!!!!) So for the last 7 years....this is one of the reasons that

I

> > have continually gained weight and have had all of these symptoms!!

> > So, yesterday I started on a new thyroid med that treats T-3 and he

> will

> > be re-testing in 3 weeks to tweek the T-4 and T-3 dosages!

> > So everyone......get copies of all of your labs.....and follow

> > them....especially when you change Clinics.....we really need to be more

> > knowledgeable about what the doctors are doing!

> > Now I need to work on this new doctor to try to get him to run all

of

> > the other tests that this group has been recommending!! (It was because

> of

> > this group that I had my present Pcp run Ferriton.....and found out it

was

> > only 18 (s/b 25-400) .....probably hadn't been run in over 7yrs!!

> >

> > ~Hugs~,

> >

> > ~Marcia~

> >

> >

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