This Morning TV - thyroid

[Guest guest]

Have just watched This Morning, with Suze talking about her

thyroid problems and the difficulty she had in getting a diagnosis. She came

over well, even though she said she was feeling very nervous. As usual Eamonn and

his partner took up too much of the allocated time, so Suze didn't have as much

time to say what she wanted . She did get it over how bad it was for those

suffering symptoms and signs of hypothyroidism to get diagnosed when their

blood test results are normal. She apparently was refused a diagnosis until her

TSH was over 10.0 - which is appalling. She got it in that she had a further

problem once she did get diagnosed and that was being unable to tolerate even

the tiniest dose of levothyroxine. Unfortunately, unless I was mistaken, and

perhaps didn't hear, I never got to find out what thyroid hormone replacement

she IS taking and whether whatever she is using she gets with NHS prescription

or has to buy it from Internet Pharmacies herself. This was a shame. However,

Dr Steele, as usual, was wonderful, and he came over quite powerfully when he

told us all how doctors need to stop treating the blood test results and start

to treat the patient, and for those patients who present with symptoms and

signs yet who have normal thyroid function blood test results - to give them a

trial of thyroid hormone replacement to see if that helps them. He was totally

on the side of the patients, and I think that the message really did come

through loud and clear that for thousands of sufferers, they are being given a

really hard time by NHS doctors.

They even managed to state that every time 'thyroid' came up

on TV, they were inundated with responses. I thought it went well, Suze did a

really good job.

Luv - Sheila