Re: Help.

November 12, 2002

Hi Tammi, most of us have been on this thyroid merry go round trying to get

the help we need. There is good help out there but you may have to search

hard to find it and become proactive. I myself was untreated for 30 years

after a partial thyroidectomy. They are giving you synthetic T4. I think

the natural medicines work better (doctors seem to prescribe what drug

companies market to them).

More info:

www.thyroid.about.com

www.armourthyroid.com

www.brodabarnes.org

Good luck, Gracia

> Hi all I am new to this group,

>

> I have been shifted and shunted between dr's so much lately that I am

> losing faith in all of them. I have tried their drugs and ideas and

> still I feel like my whole world is falling apart.

>

> I am so sure that they think I am nuerotic.

>

> I was sent to a ruematologist early in 2002 with possible ruematoid

> arthritis. I was informed by him that it was not RA but probably a

> connective tissue dissorder of some kind, possibly even early lupus!

>

> My GP then told me I had marginally low thyroid levels and started me

> on thyroxin sodium 50mcg.

>

> Next apt, the ruemy decides it is all thyroid but says come back and

> see me in 10 weeks.

>

> All the while I have been getting tireder and tireder, to the point

> where I fell asleep driving my car and only missed crashing it into a

> tree but inches.

>

> The GP says he wants to leave diagnosis up to the ruemy, but maybe it

> is all depression. In answer to that I told him he too would be

> drpressed if he was 31 years old and sleeping 14 hours a day, while

> still needing to doze during the remaining hours of the day. He

> retested the thyroid and said levels were in normal range.

>

> Ruemy then proceeds to tell me I do not have lupus or arthritis and

> that my thyroid levels are still low so he ups the thyroxin to 100

> mcgs. He too says that I sound depressed. I see him again on 10th dec.

>

> Next apt with GP he tells me that he wont need to test the thyroid

> again because if the levels were normal last time then they will

> obviously be higher next time. I asked him about the depression and

> he said that the thyroxin should clear that up if thyroid is the

> cause.

>

> Now I am at a point where I need help. My friends think I just spend

> too much time in bed. I dont have a life. I cry all the time. I am

> tired whether or not I sleep. I am sick to death of dr's and blood

> tests and if it wasn't for all my beautiful animals I can honestly

> say I am running out of reasons to even bother.

>

> How the hell do you get someone to see that the thread that I am

> hanging on by is so tenuous that it is starting to scare even me.

>

> I live in country South Australia and if anyone can offer me some

> advice I would greatly appreciate it.

>

> Blessed Be,

>

> Tammi.

>

November 13, 2002

In a message dated 11/12/2002 7:08:18 PM Pacific Standard Time,

wytewing@... writes:

> The GP says he wants to leave diagnosis up to the ruemy, but maybe it

> is all depression. In answer to that I told him he too would be

> drpressed if he was 31 years old and sleeping 14 hours a day, while

> still needing to doze during the remaining hours of the day. He

> retested the thyroid and said levels were in normal range.

>

Dear Tammi,

When a person is showing normal blood test results but still has obvious

clinical signs of hypothyroidism, there's a good possiblity they have

's Thyroid Syndrome. It develops because the body stops being able to

convert T4, the stable form of thyroid hormone, into T3, the active form,

which tells the body how much energy to produce. One other symptom of WTS is

low average daily body temperature. Do you have this? You can have low body

temp even when you feel warm. The best way to check is to take your temp

three times a day for four or five days. Take the first one about four hours

after you first get up in the morning. Then at three hour intervals.

Average the three temps each day and chart them. Anything below 98.4, imo,

is suspect.

Use a new, gallium thermometer and take care not to drop it. A thermometer

that has been dropped at any time from a height of four feet or more can

become uncalibrated. Digitals are too inaccurate and loose their batteries

too quickly over the many times you'll need to measure. They aren't selling

mercury thermometers anymore and old mercury thermometers are likely to have

been dropped or banged around and thus be inaccurate.

Here's a website to learn about <A

HREF= " www.wilsonsthyroidsyndrome.com " >WTS</A>. I went 30 years dragging around

as

you've described with no doctor willing to give me any medicine for

hyothyroidism and always blaming me saying I was depressed or hypochondriac

or crazy. Then, last year a new, holistic MD saw the low body temp chart I'd

been keeping and started me on the treatment for WTS and my life has revived

dramatically!!! I'm now 95% of normal! I hope it will help you!

All the best,

in LA

November 15, 2002

Thanks for you answer Tammi. I have been having trouble for the last 30 years.

Less than a year ago I found out it was hypothyroidism. My tsh was at 86.0.

Having trouble with 3 doctors saying my test are nomal but still cold. Cold to

the point of pain, even though tem. my be in lower 70's. Tom

annah1149@... wrote:In a message dated 11/12/2002 7:08:18 PM Pacific

Standard Time,