You have seriously let me down Doctor.....

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Hello

Lynne - welcome to our forum and I hope that we can continue to help you. You

are correct, the cost to the NHS for treating each individual symptom of

hypothyroidism is shocking, doctors should be quite ashamed of themselves

because they have no knowledge of how the thyroid functions, and they do not do

the research required of them to keep their education up to date. We can though

blame both the BTA and the RCP for this, and investigations should be done to

find out why they are giving incorrect information, and their refusal to

rectify their errors when they are given the medical science that shows how

wrong they are.

I was getting more and more annoyed about how costly it was to my practice and

the NHS in general to perpetrate their insistence of looking at each

hypothyroid symptom in isolation, not linking any symptoms being displayed to

the core condition! In fact, purposefully ignoring any symptoms whatsoever

because the computer says " your thyroid is in range " !!!.

First,

your thyroid GLAND function might well be within the reference range - but have

they taken into consideration that the thyroid hormone your thyroid gland is

making is getting into your cells or not? The answer to that is NO - because

many doctors are not even taught about peripheral thyroid hormone resistance. This

can be hereditary or caused through environmental toxins - and blood tests

cannot detect it.  You should read Mark Starr's book " Hypothyroidism Type

2 " . Medical practitioners are leaving tens of thousands of sufferers

without a diagnosis of hypothyroidism and therefore not giving them the

treatment they require. We have written to both the Royal College of Physicians

and the British Thyroid Association about this - they never even responded.

Quite simply, the NHS is killing us - and one wonders why.

So I told the Doctor (new to me on that day, poor guy) how appalled I was that

they did not look at the core condition before they went on expensive treatment

journeys. After telling him all, he apologised on behalf of the practice and

asked me if I felt they had let me down. I said Yes - most definitely...He said

that I should see him from now on and he would work with me to manage

everything as sensibly as possible. I do recognise that he had to deflect it

for fear of me complaining in writing and having to deal with a complaint!

Excellent

result Lynne - let's hope that everybody can learn to be as assertive as you

have been, and get such a good result. Ask him if he ever considers the

possibility of peripheral thyroid hormone resistance in his patients who have

all the symptoms and signs of hypothyroidism - yet the thyroid GLAND function

tests are within the normal reference range. Ask him to take a little time out

to read 's paper on ‘Hypothyroidism Mimics Require Consideration’

http://www.tpa-uk.org.uk/pritchard2_mimics.pdf

which I sent to the President of the British Thyroid Association asking for

comments - it was completely ignored and also his paper . I also sent copies of

this paper to the following - not one person responded:

All Members of the BTA

Executive Committee

???? NHS Endocrinologists (568)

???? Trustees, British Thyroid Foundation

???? Rt Hon Gordon Brown PC MP, Prime Minister

???? Nicholson, NHS Chief Executive

???? Sir Liam son, Chief Medical officer

???? Mr Alan MP, Secretary of State for Health

???? Lord Sir Ara Darzi

???? Dr Fiona Adshead, Deputy Medical Officer

???? Ms Whittington, Head of Long Term Conditions

???? Professor Boyle, National Clinical Director –

Heart Disease/Stroke

???? Professor Beasley, Chief Nursing Officer

???? Flora Goldhill, National Director of user Experience

and Involvement

???? Harry Cayton, National Director Patient and Public

Involvement

???? Dean and Head of all UK Medical Schools

I also sent them 's paper

entitled  The Linguistic Etiologies of Thyroxine-Resistant Hypothyroidism http://www.tpa-uk.org.uk/pritchard1.pdf

- again, I guess the BTA, RCP simply threw it in the bin with all the other

scientific research to show them how wrong they are.

I think it is time that we made

them sit up and listen.

Luv - Sheila

So, do I have a result of sorts??

Regards

Lynne

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