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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