ACTUAL IDIOTIC STATEMENTS made by docs!

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(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 It's an outdated practice.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!!!)