Still getting painful joints and stiff muscles

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Hi everyone again! I just thought I would keep you up-dated on my continuing

effort to cure whatever is causing this pain. I had the results of a 24 hour

urine test which stated that my T3 was well in the 'red' zone i.e. not having

enough T3 in my body. Then I had blood tests that stated that the ESR was well

over the normal range so that indicated that I had some inflammatory thing going

on in my body. Since then I have seen a private endocrinologist who did blood

tests which showed that my T3 was within the 'normal' range, near the top end

but still supposedly 'normal'. I showed this private endo. the results of my 24

hour urine test which was abnormal and she said that I shouldn't take any notice

of this test and that 'you can only measure T3 by blood tests'. I do not want

to see her again and am certainly not going to pay another £100.00 or more to

see her just so that she probably won't prescribe me T3, she wouldn't discuss

this with me on the phone. I just think it is probably unlikely that she will

prescribe me T3 if my blood test said that I am within the normal range. I have

an NHS appointment to see an endocrinologist in August and I will see what he

says. In the mean time I am buying T3 on the internet to give it a trial to see

if that cures these pains. If it proves to be just as expensive to buy T3 as it

is to buy Erfa or similar I might go back to that but at present I find it hard

to afford buying this as I am not paying for Levothyroxine that I get on

prescription. I suppose it is a matter of trial and error until I find the

right stuff I am supposed to be taking. Thanks. Ann.