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

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Hi all

After self-diagnosis and exploration via the very sound and sensible advice to

be found on this forum, I feel very lucky to have discovered the right doctor

and the right advice to improve my health and wellbeing. No thanks to my GP, but

certainly thanks to Sheila and Co. I am just SO glad I found the TPA website!

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 " !!!.

Each symptom has initiated a very costly potential cure, from courses of

counselling for " stress-related " hair loss, to numerous visits to monitor blood

pressure (caused by under-medication)for no perceivable benefit, to potential

hospital visits, cameras for " IBS " .. All without any reference to my 'core'

condition..

All of which I knew would not solve the problem, because I had bothered to find

out more. The potential cost of all this is nothing short of appalling when

compared to the cost of thyroid replacement drugs.

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!

So, do I have a result of sorts??

Regards

Lynne