RE: delusions of grandeur?

[Guest guest]

There are doctors at the University of Kentucky who do nothing but study the

relationship between diet and automimmune disorders, so there must be

somebody out there who thinks there is a link. I think it's ludicrous for a

medical doctor to EVER discount that what we eat has an effect on us. What

we eat has EVERTHING to do with our health. I'll go so far to say that I

think if people made 95% of their diet plant foods (fruits, veggies, grains,

nuts, seeds) and everything was natural and free of chemical and

preservatives, and the other 5% was fish (that was free of chemicals) and

possibly dairy, that there would be almost no illness in the world. But, of

course, that's just my humble opinion. Stupidendos for sure. We're in the

shape we are because of all the crap we eat and are exposed to on a daily

basis. That's progress for you.

Holly

Re: delusions of grandeur?

OH ,

Your story sounds all too familiar. I had an endo who was just as calm and

self assured. The nimwit put me in the emergency room eventually. Every

doctor I've had, even my current doc, tells me that diet makes no

difference. When I had the hives, they told me it wasn't thyroid related,

but that I could have a serious reaction to tap and better do the RAI ASAP.

The doctor freaked me out so much, harping on the sore throat leading to my

own death, that I went to the ER the day after xmas to find out I had a

cold. I'm not saying you shouldn't see a doctor if you fall ill, but the

agranulocytosis is a very RARE reaction. My docs all made me think I was a

ticking time bomb, just waiting for the whiplash of tapazole to strike. The

only problem I had was short term hives while on the higher dose and

HYPOthyroidism, caused by a crazy doc putting me on 60 mg of tap a day. I

know how you feel when these docs talk with such confidence and so much

condensation (sp?), but you are on the right track if you ask me. Stick

with it and keep looking for an endo you can talk to. My current doctor,

listed as a top doc by the city of Dallas, is OK for now because she lets me

get blood tests whenever I want. She also mentions my needing RAI

eventually, every time I see her. I just smile and say 'no thanks'. I know

some graves patients have found good doctors, but I feel like I'm basically

treating myself. I go to the doctor for the script and blood tests. That's

about it. Before I was diagnosed with Graves, I never would have thought I

could have such an attitude, but Graves teaches you a lot. You hang in

there and make sure you don't ignore your own gut feelings about your

condition! Nobody knows your body better than you do.

I'm really wondering what they teach these endos in med school...I really

wonder. Every endo I've seen seems to know little or NOTHING about the

thyroid!

KRisti

delusions of grandeur?

> Pam L, I hope you're still on.

>

> New endo was very nice, but he also will not prescribe PTU because

> it's too close to Tapazole. He calmly and nonthreateningly asked me

> what my reasons were for resisting RAI. I gave him 3 reasons, all of

> which he refuted quite smoothly. I told him I think I'm a good

> candidate for remission, as I'm young and my RAI uptake levels were

> borderline and my labs are improving (he also made the same deduction

> that we all did, that possibly the TSH is lagging behind FT3 & FT4).

> I told him that itching is a classic symptom of GD and that I was

> itchy before I ever heard the word Tapazole, and he conceded on that

> point. He said that that was all well and good except for the hives,

> which negate all progress because I could still have a deathly

> allergic reaction. I told him I still want to think about it and

> keep taking the Tapazole at 15mg. He made me to promise to go to

> emergency room if I had the sore throat or fever and he'll see me in

> one week with another lab. I was so proud of my dietary changes and

> he said they wouldn't make a difference. I had to pick my jaw up

> off the floor.

>

> He said all of this so sweetly and with such seeming regard for my

> welfare that I'm wondering if I really am just deluded. Is he

> simply worried about being the doctor who allowed me to have an

> allergic reaction to ATD's? He did mention it...

>

> Funny, I found out I had Graves because the tech at United Blood

> Services said my HR was too high. They wouldn't let me donate my B+

> blood that day, which alarmed me all the way to the urgent care.

>

> So now I'm home, my throat really is a bit tender from all the dang

> squeezing he did and I'm having a fit of despair.

>

> --

> Tap (15mg) and Top (50mg)

> DX 10-15-02

>

>

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