UK - private blood testing?

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Hello feemccormick,

Wednesday, April 28, 2004, 4:15:06 PM, you wrote:

f> Hi, does anybody have the details for any company in the UK who offer

f> private blood testing? Somebody mentioned NP Tech but I can't find

f> any contact details for them.

Here you go

http://www.nptech.co.uk/main.htm

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Individual Wellbeing Diagnostic Labs

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they have two places you can go to.

No questions asked.. I am going on Friday for Thyroid panel and Ferritin,

and a repeat of the Serum Lead (which I ruined at the GP by taking DMSA and

it came back negative.. DMSA removes lead from the blood ... what was I

thinking.. it would have been right had it been a urine test... dumb

dumb.. ) so paying the £30 to get it sorted only I will wait 5 days for the

answer ...not 5 wks this time!!

Jane

UK - private blood testing?

> Hi, does anybody have the details for any company in the UK who offer

> private blood testing? Somebody mentioned NP Tech but I can't find

> any contact details for them.

> My Aunt is in a very bad way, nervous breakdown at 23, depressive

> tendencies, lithium for 30 years - she's now 66. What me & my Mum

> have recently come to realise is that she's actually massively Hypo.

> Her TSH is 5.75 - 'borderline' according to her GP who refuses to

> look at any of her other symptoms - she's a virtual zombie.

> I've finally persuaded her to go see Dr Skinner in June. What I'd

> really like to do though is have her free t3 & free t4 checked plus

> thyroid antibodies. As well as the lithium treatment she's taking

> sleeping pills and laxatives, she can't sleep, her ankles are

> swollen, she's cold, her eyes are sore, she can't poo, she's

> exhausted. In fact she's an utter mess and I'm amazed she hasn't

> slipped into a coma. Her poor husband, awful as it is, used to call

> her a 'cretin' which of course is what being Hypo is. He died a

> month ago. Such a sad story & I'd be very interested for anybody's

> opinion on how much of all this will be reversible. Also if she will

> have to continue on the lithium.

> God knows how she'll feel once she is treated - fantastic I'm sure -

> but what a tragedy, her whole life in a fog - I wonder how she'll

> cope with the inevitable anger and bitterness towards the health

> system. She's a definite casualty of getting caught up in the

> psychiatric mold when I'm sure all she needed was thyroid treatment.

> Fee x x x x

>

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[Guest guest]

Here are the details for NPTech.

http://www.nptech.co.uk/

Also medi-lab will do bloods for you, but you need a brief cinsult

with their Doc...it's just a formality. They are really

helpful...have done bloods for me.

http://www.medi-lab.co.uk/

Hope this helps!

Fluffy

> Hi, does anybody have the details for any company in the UK who

offer

> private blood testing? Somebody mentioned NP Tech but I can't

find

> any contact details for them.

> My Aunt is in a very bad way, nervous breakdown at 23, depressive

> tendencies, lithium for 30 years - she's now 66. What me & my Mum

> have recently come to realise is that she's actually massively

Hypo.

> Her TSH is 5.75 - 'borderline' according to her GP who refuses to

> look at any of her other symptoms - she's a virtual zombie.

> I've finally persuaded her to go see Dr Skinner in June. What I'd

> really like to do though is have her free t3 & free t4 checked

plus

> thyroid antibodies. As well as the lithium treatment she's taking

> sleeping pills and laxatives, she can't sleep, her ankles are

> swollen, she's cold, her eyes are sore, she can't poo, she's

> exhausted. In fact she's an utter mess and I'm amazed she hasn't

> slipped into a coma. Her poor husband, awful as it is, used to

call

> her a 'cretin' which of course is what being Hypo is. He died a

> month ago. Such a sad story & I'd be very interested for

anybody's

> opinion on how much of all this will be reversible. Also if she

will

> have to continue on the lithium.

> God knows how she'll feel once she is treated - fantastic I'm

sure -

> but what a tragedy, her whole life in a fog - I wonder how she'll

> cope with the inevitable anger and bitterness towards the health

> system. She's a definite casualty of getting caught up in the

> psychiatric mold when I'm sure all she needed was thyroid

treatment.

> Fee x x x x

[Guest guest]

Wow..... 24 pounds for a TSH, T4 & T3! Amazing. I pay a MINIMUM of $125 for

all

three here in the US in my area. It's less of course with insurance. But if

one self

pays, they kill you with the cost.

Janet

> Practise nurses will often take the bloods for free otherwise NPTech

> will give you a list of private hospitals that will take the for a

> fixed fee.

>

>

> TSH, freeT3 and fREE t4 IS 24 pounds from npTECH -i had the full

> price list on my desk but since i live in chaos, i can't find it to

> give you the other details.

> I hope your aunt gets some decent treatment asap

>

>

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> Best regards,

> Alison

> http://www.alisonashwell.com

mailto:alison.ashwell@w...

> new work uploaded

> http://www.artwanted.com/alisonashwell

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