Guest guest Posted May 22, 2008 Report Share Posted May 22, 2008 Hi Anne It depends on how quickly you want it - because you can usually buy it on an online pharmacy for cheaper - but you will have to wait a bit longer as they are posted from overseas. Maybe you can explore that option for your next order. I have used two - inhouse.co.uk and internationalpharmacy.com both good. Hope that helps Leah x > > Hi > thanks for the warning - it's not armour, thyroxine - is that better or > worse lol > Anne > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 23, 2008 Report Share Posted May 23, 2008 What a shame - I thought you were getting Armour. Still, L-thyroxine might work well for you as it does for the majority of sufferers I am told. It is still cheaper to buy it from the Internet Pharmacies, but as Dr S has recommended L-thyroxine for you, surely your GP will take up such a recommendation and prescribe it for you within the NHS. After all, as Dr S needs a referral from a GP, your GP must have referred you and therefore, surely he should listen to what Dr S recommends. Luv - Sheila Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 23, 2008 Report Share Posted May 23, 2008 Don't feel deflated Anne - it is good that your GP has referred you and that he recognises that you have an autoimmune disease. Did your GP tell you what antibody test you had done - were these antibodies to your thyroid. If so, this proves that you will need thyroid hormone replacement some day, if not right now. Let us know the results of your new tests as soon as you get them. At least, now, at last, you are finding out what actually has been wrong with you all this time, when before, you were left in the dark. Keep your chin up Anne. Luv and (((HUGS))) - Sheila Yes, I thought so too - but....!! I would defeinately have prefered armour but am 'sort of willing' to give L-thyroxine a go as it's cheaper and long term I may have problems affording amour but if I'm not happy I'll see Dr S about it. My GP forgot to include FT4 and Dr S did it instead, results came today - FT4 13.6 (10.00 - 22.00) and TSH 0.90 (0.3-4.5). Saw GP on Monday and he told me I do have an auto immune disease and that my body is attacking itself and has arranged for more blood to be taken including the FT4 whcih had previously been ommitted and that he's 'happy to let Dr S see to my thyroid for the time being' until we get the next bloods back. Feel a bit deflated now.... Anne xx No virus found in this incoming message.Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.21/1458 - Release Date: 21/05/2008 07:21 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 23, 2008 Report Share Posted May 23, 2008 Thyroxine is cheap on private prescription. You will pay anywhere between £5 to £120 depending on what the chemist decides to charge for 200 pills of 25mcg - or this is what I found, so you get the rough idea of the cost. It makes me wonder if it is worth the hassle to get it on the NHS when I have to collect a prescription for 28 pills each month. Val thyroxine - is that better orworse lolAnne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 6, 2011 Report Share Posted September 6, 2011 Dear 'bobbiesgirl' It is very wrong that your doctors are refusing to take your adrenal results into account. I take it that this test was the 24 hour salivary adrenal profile tested by Genova Diagnostics. You cannot let them get away with this. What I would do now is, with immediate effect, write a letter to your endocrinologist with a copy to your GP asking them to write to you and let you the exact reason why they are refusing to take these results into account when assessing your present health status. I personally believe that such NHS doctors are potentially causing great harm to their patients by NOT recognising any of the stages that can lead up to the two serious conditions known as 's disease (too little or no cortisol secretion) or Cushing's Syndrome (too high a level of cortisol production). You need to find out whether they are refusing to acknowledge the actual results or they are refusing to acknowledge Genova Diagnostics as a recognised testing laboratory. Take a copy of the attached 'Genova Quality Assurance' document and enclose it with your letter to both your endo. and GP and ask both to get back to you as a matter of urgency. It is doctors like these who are driving patients into taking their thyroid/adrenal health into their own hands leaving them with no option but to self diagnose, self treat and self monitor. Luv - Sheila Can anyone PLEASE help.... my Endo & GP will not acknowledge results of my adrenal saliva test (I'm a hypothyroid patient) which show my adrenals are almost completely burnt out. My symptoms are just horrible and I absolutely cannot take my NDT - I've been struggling to on and off since January (9 months). I haven't had a full dose of thyroid med. since Jan. I'm now desperate to get the low dosage cortisone that Dr Peatfield speaks about in his book. Any idea how I can get someone to prescribe for me. Thanks for your help. 1 of 1 File(s) Genova Quality Assurance.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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