Re: Re: lab results (chaceeagle)

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If you have a Dr on your insurance who's demanding, or by omission, withholding

treatment from you, I'd immediately call my insurance co and tell them what he

is doing. It almost sounds like you have an HMO (I used to have one of these

ughhh!) and some of the Dr's are the most arrogant I've met. But, you do have

recourse.....complain about him/her and insist that this is not for HIM/HER to

force you into doing! You can actually file a formal complaint against his

practices where your health is concerned. (I had one who told me I had COPD, and

was ruining my kidneys because of the high blood pressure (an HMO Dr) who never

even tried to find out why I was so tired, or why it was hard for me to drag up

out of bed daily, among many other symptoms. He put me on bp meds and turned me

loose, never once checking to see if something was causing it. :-( 18 months

later I discovered I was hyperT/graves. Had heart palps starting a little over

5 yrs ago.

Btw, what city and state are you in? I've had three Dr's who told me that RAI

was the way to go, and i'm also on Atenolol and Methimazole. They can talk till

they're all blue in the face, but it's MY decision in the long run and I'm just

not willing to let them decide for me. In the beginning, I just told them it

was too much info for me to process (snicker) and that I'd have to think about

it, as well as the holidays, and I had grandkids I was not going to stay away

from because of RAI at Thanksgiving and Christmastime. As soon as I had the

uptake scan, a week later I had the prescriptions in hand. If you need any help

in gathering all your thoughts and putting them down to file a formal complaint

against the DR you have to see, please feel free to contact me and I'd love to

help you. I've had these go arounds with insurance before my current insurance

and they are not God's, although they'll have you thinking they are.

Sandy

starz@...

Re: lab results

I am really between a rock and a hard place with this right now. The

only time I can change my Primary doc is during our open enrollment

in October. Also can't go to the other types of docs you mentioned

because my insurance won't cover it. I HAVE to do everything thru my

health insurance because I'm just not in a financial position to do

otherwise. That's why I'm trying the herbs that I order through the

internet. I started them in March-how long do you think it takes

before making some difference? I think I will try the l-carnatine

that you mentioned. Do you think that it would be helpful?

Thanks,

Chris

>

> Hi Pam L is right about the difference between prescription

herbs and

> over the counter herbs - you need to at the very least get in to

see a real

> ND who can prescribe the right strength of herbs for you.

>

> Now Pam says that the herbs only work if Graves is mild and I'm

proof that

> it works even if your Graves is pretty severe - but herbs DO take

time to

> work - they took several months to get my numbers down. I had lost

almost 30

> pounds and was very weak and had to take 60-80 mg of propranolol a

day to

> have a somewhat decent resting heartbeat. I also took L-Carnatine

which

> blocks the use of thyroid hormone at the cell level and that

brought relief

> to all of my symptoms but my bloodwork still looked horrible

because the

> hormone was still there, just had no way to get used up.

>

> Your labs are showing a progressive worsening, and I do think you

need to do

> something, even though you say you don't have many symptoms....

Like fire

> your primary and start over, or go see an ND or someone that does

some

> energy work - acupuncture, NMT, homeopathy, something. You don't

want to do

> permanent damage and the longer you live with this the longer it's

going to

> take to heal.

>

> It's your body and YOU are in charge of it, not your doctor and not

your

> insurance company. Unfortunately this is something a lot of us have

to fight

> for and it's no fun, but it has to be done because it's your health

you are

> talking about - and not something to mess around with. And, oh

this is

> making me mad for you - don't let them force you into RAI when you

have

> hardly any symptoms to start with!!! Fire all your docs and start

searching

> for one that will work with you and get healthy again!

>

> Pam B.