Re: ACTUAL IDIOTIC STATEMENTS made by docs!

[Guest guest]

I just emailed this to an endo I have contact with and helps me from

time to time.

Add this one if you want.

I was told by an endo after I asked if I could try cortef to see if

that would help me feel better. " Everyone feels better taking it "

He wouldn't give it to me and told me I was bi-polar and threw me at

the door to suffer a few more months until I found an Environmental

Doc.

I went to that endo for what I thought were adrenal problems. The

environmental doc found I was secondary hypoadrenal, also discovered

I was secondary hypothyroid and seconday hypogonad. The endo really

dropped the ball.

Chris

>

> (Below is our current GIVE ME A BREAK file of ACTUAL STUPID

> statements made by docs. Some are followed by my own comments--

LOL.

> Janie)

>

> 1) " fT3 is not tested anymore. It's an outdated practice. "

>

> 2) " You just will need to live with it. "

>

> 3) " It's not your thyroid. You need to be on an anti-depressant. "

>

> 4) " Your tests are all normal so you are just fine. "

>

> 5) " Although you are experiencing many hypoT signs, it does not

> warrant any meds " (Made in 2004 by an Endo in Houston, Texas who

> thinks labwork rules over OBVIOUS symptoms!)

>

> 6) " Being hypothyroid for a few years won't do you any harm....... "

> (Said by a doc who refused to prescribe Armour and didn't care how

> lousy she felt on T4-only meds " .)

>

> 7) All the following courtesy of Endo's in UK, aka " Endobobbins " :

>

> a)In answer to I'm tired: " The average person on the street is

> tired "

> b)After being 'stabilized' on T4 after thyroidectomy: " You're

> cured now, anything else you experience, if you get depressed or

> don't feel right, is nothing to do with your thyroid and must be

> treated separately "

> c) After telling my Endonob I was on Armour: " Aren't you

afraid

> of getting mad cow disease? "

>

> 8) When a gal continued to have lingering hypo issues when she

> wasn't on enough Armour, the doc replied that she needed to " MOURN

> HER SON " better!! (Her son had passed away in 1995)

>

> 9) Doc: I am taking you off thyroxine, there is nothing wrong with

> your thyroid.

> Me: But I feel so much better since I have been taking it.

> Doc: If you took speed you would feel better too. (from Lynda

> in the UK)

>

> 10) " Free T3 and Free T4 tests are only for patients with

> hyperthyroidism. It would be UNWISE to use those tests for someone

> with hypothyroidism. "

>

> 11) " It would be maltreatment to treat a TSH of 3.5. " Said by Endo

> to patient whose symptoms SCREAMED hypo!

>

> 12) " T3 is a like a narcotic. If you get used to it, we will have

to

> wean you off of it. " Said to patient when her TSH got to .23, yet

> her free T3 was low in the range.

>

> 13). " Hashimoto's comes from a virus. " (Yup, a doc REALLY said that

> to a member of this site.)

>

> 14) " I can tell by looking at you that you don't have thyroid

> disease " (Give me a break. This doc must have gone to " Here's

> Lookin' at Ya Medical School " .)

>

> 15). " We don't know for sure that you are hypothyroid unless we

take

> you off all medication for 6 weeks " . (Said by an Endo who said

> Armour was inconsistent, and who also said a mole on her breast was

> a third nipple. LOL.)

>

> 16) Said by a doc to a member from Alberta when she asked about

> dessicated thyroid: " This is only given to patients that are

> allergic to " Synthroid. " When questioning him: Is there any

> difference between " Synthroid " and " dessicated thyroid " ....his

> answer: " NO " .

>

>

> 17) From a gal here in Oct. 2004 when she went to an Endo referred

> to her by her doc: " The Endo told me how dangerous Armour is, how

> unreliable the Free T3 tests are; and how TSH is how they manage

> throid issues now -- and how wonderful and reliable that test is. "

> (And said by me, Janie, when I read this: GAG. URP. UPCHUCK.

VOMIT.)

>

> 18) Member went into hospital with severe gastric pains. Docs

tested

> her: they said it was probably due to the natural thyroid she was

on

> and sent her home. Natural thyroid and severe stomach pains?? NOT.

> She was absessing from a severe ecoli infection--lost part of her

> kidney a few days later and almost her life.

>

> 19) A member reports that her grandmother's doctor is 'managing'

her

> thyroid, keeping her TSH between 4.5 and 5. No free Ts have been

> done. When her grandfather questioned her TSH and asked about

> Armour, he was told " Her TSH is fine. Armour is just an old wives "

> tale. " (BLECK!!!)

[Guest guest]

> I just emailed this to an endo I have contact with and helps me

from time to time.

I had to laugh, because I am not aware that any Endo has read it and

find it fascinating that you would send it to an Endo. So please let

us know the reaction!! LOL.

Janie

[Guest guest]

Love it!!! " Here's lookin at ya Medical School " ...you're too funny!

Great list!... I have to say #14 is one of my LONGTIME favorites,

because that's what the drs. have been saying to me for the last 15-

20 yrs.... " You LOOK good... "

Well, alrighty then

Now, they just want me to take an antidepressant. Idiots.

Kathy

>

> (Below is our current GIVE ME A BREAK file of ACTUAL STUPID

> statements made by docs. Some are followed by my own comments--

LOL.

> Janie)

>

> 1) " fT3 is not tested anymore. It's an outdated practice. "

>

> 2) " You just will need to live with it. "

>

> 3) " It's not your thyroid. You need to be on an anti-depressant. "

>

> 4) " Your tests are all normal so you are just fine. "

>

> 5) " Although you are experiencing many hypoT signs, it does not

> warrant any meds " (Made in 2004 by an Endo in Houston, Texas who

> thinks labwork rules over OBVIOUS symptoms!)

>

> 6) " Being hypothyroid for a few years won't do you any harm....... "

> (Said by a doc who refused to prescribe Armour and didn't care how

> lousy she felt on T4-only meds " .)

>

> 7) All the following courtesy of Endo's in UK, aka " Endobobbins " :

>

> a)In answer to I'm tired: " The average person on the street is

> tired "

> b)After being 'stabilized' on T4 after thyroidectomy: " You're

> cured now, anything else you experience, if you get depressed or

> don't feel right, is nothing to do with your thyroid and must be

> treated separately "

> c) After telling my Endonob I was on Armour: " Aren't you

afraid

> of getting mad cow disease? "

>

> 8) When a gal continued to have lingering hypo issues when she

> wasn't on enough Armour, the doc replied that she needed to " MOURN

> HER SON " better!! (Her son had passed away in 1995)

>

> 9) Doc: I am taking you off thyroxine, there is nothing wrong with

> your thyroid.

> Me: But I feel so much better since I have been taking it.

> Doc: If you took speed you would feel better too. (from Lynda

> in the UK)

>

> 10) " Free T3 and Free T4 tests are only for patients with

> hyperthyroidism. It would be UNWISE to use those tests for someone

> with hypothyroidism. "

>

> 11) " It would be maltreatment to treat a TSH of 3.5. " Said by Endo

> to patient whose symptoms SCREAMED hypo!

>

> 12) " T3 is a like a narcotic. If you get used to it, we will have

to

> wean you off of it. " Said to patient when her TSH got to .23, yet

> her free T3 was low in the range.

>

> 13). " Hashimoto's comes from a virus. " (Yup, a doc REALLY said that

> to a member of this site.)

>

> 14) " I can tell by looking at you that you don't have thyroid

> disease " (Give me a break. This doc must have gone to " Here's

> Lookin' at Ya Medical School " .)

>

> 15). " We don't know for sure that you are hypothyroid unless we

take

> you off all medication for 6 weeks " . (Said by an Endo who said

> Armour was inconsistent, and who also said a mole on her breast was

> a third nipple. LOL.)

>

> 16) Said by a doc to a member from Alberta when she asked about

> dessicated thyroid: " This is only given to patients that are

> allergic to " Synthroid. " When questioning him: Is there any

> difference between " Synthroid " and " dessicated thyroid " ....his

> answer: " NO " .

>

>

> 17) From a gal here in Oct. 2004 when she went to an Endo referred

> to her by her doc: " The Endo told me how dangerous Armour is, how

> unreliable the Free T3 tests are; and how TSH is how they manage

> throid issues now -- and how wonderful and reliable that test is. "

> (And said by me, Janie, when I read this: GAG. URP. UPCHUCK.

VOMIT.)

>

> 18) Member went into hospital with severe gastric pains. Docs

tested

> her: they said it was probably due to the natural thyroid she was

on

> and sent her home. Natural thyroid and severe stomach pains?? NOT.

> She was absessing from a severe ecoli infection--lost part of her

> kidney a few days later and almost her life.

>

> 19) A member reports that her grandmother's doctor is 'managing'

her

> thyroid, keeping her TSH between 4.5 and 5. No free Ts have been

> done. When her grandfather questioned her TSH and asked about

> Armour, he was told " Her TSH is fine. Armour is just an old wives "

> tale. " (BLECK!!!)