10 UIRGENT QUESTIONS.

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10 URGENT QUESTION: HAVE YOU BEEN DENIED ANY OTHER FORM OF THYROID HORMONE REPLACEMENT FOR YOUR SYMPTOMS OF HYPOTHYROIDISM, OTHER THAN LEVOTHYROXINE(T4) ONLY? YOU CAN HELP US AND HELP YOURSELF1.Do you live in the Midlands and been denied a diagnosis of hypothyroidism because your thyroid function test results were returned within the 'normal' reference interval after consultation with endocrinologists at the University Hospital Birmingham?2. Were you given a diagnosis of hypothyroidism and prescribed L-thyroxine (T4-only)?3. Did you ask your GP/Endocrinologist for a trial of either synthetic T3 (Liothyronine), either in combination with T4, T3 alone or a natural thyroid extract (NDT) because you continued to suffer symptoms on T4-only? 4. Did your GP refuse to refer you to an endocrinologist? 5. Did your GP/Endo. recommended natural desiccated thyroid extract, but your local Primary Care Trust refused to fund NDT?6. Did you see a private doctor who diagnosed you with hypothyroidism after your NHS doctor had refused to give you a diagnosis and started you on thyroid hormone replacement?7. If you already had a diagnosis of hypothyroidism, did you see a private doctor in order to get some form of T3 prescribed, which took away your remaining symptoms.8. Did you feel forced into taking your thyroid health into your own hands and purchased some form of T3 from Internet Pharmacies to treat your remaining symptoms - and having done that, did you find your symptoms were mitigated or resolved completely?9. Did you discuss such an outcome with your GP/Endocrinologist asking them to reconsider prescribing T3 for you, but they continued to refuse you this?10. Would you be willing to testify to the above if we can get a sufficient number of cases in your local Primary Care Trust?Please write to me privately giving me your answers and the name of your local Primary Care Trust to sheila@... As mentioned above, I am particiularly interested in those of you who have been in consultation with the University Hospital Birmingham and either been denied a diagnosis or denied treatment with any T3 hormone, synthetic or natural. However, if you can identify with the above and you live in another PCT area in the UK, please let me know.Sheilae of your local Primary Care