RIDICULOUS STATEMENTS made by docs to us here

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The following is currently in our GIVE ME A BREAK! folder containing

ridiculous statements made by docs to members in this forum:

1. " fT3 is not tested anymore. It's an outdated practice. "

2. " You just will need to live with it. "

3. " It's not your thyroid. You need to be on an anti-depressant. "

4. " Your tests are all normal so you are just fine. "

5. " Although you are experiencing many hypoT signs, it does not

warrant any meds " (Made in 2004 by an Endo in Houston, Texas who

thinks labwork rules over OBVIOUS symptoms!)

6. " Being hypothyroid for a few years won't do you any harm....... "

(Said by a doc who refused to prescribe Armour and didn't care how

lousy she felt on T4-only meds " .)

7). All the following courtesy of Endo's in UK, aka " Endobobbins " :

a)In answer to I'm tired: " The average person on the street is

tired "

b)After being 'stabilized' on T4 after thyroidectomy: " You're

cured now, anything else you experience, if you get depressed or

don't feel right, is nothing to do with your thyroid and must be

treated separately "

c) After telling my Endonob I was on Armour: " Aren't you afraid

of getting mad cow disease? "

8) When a gal continued to have lingering hypo issues when she

wasn't on enough Armour, the doc replied that she needed to " MOURN

HER SON " better!! (Her son had passed away in 1995)

[Guest guest]

Janie,

please add this one:

Doc: I am taking you off thyroxine, there is nothing wrong with your thyroid

Me: but I feel so much better since I have been taking it

Doc: If you took speed you would feel better too

Lynda (in the UK)

[Guest guest]

NO WAY!!!!!!!!!!!! HE SAID THAT???????????? Amazing. It's headed

for the folder.

Janie

> Janie,

> please add this one:

>

> Doc: I am taking you off thyroxine, there is nothing wrong with

your thyroid

> Me: but I feel so much better since I have been taking it

> Doc: If you took speed you would feel better too

>

> Lynda (in the UK)

[Guest guest]

yup, he didn't offer me any though!!!

Lynda

Re: RIDICULOUS STATEMENTS made by docs to us

here

NO WAY!!!!!!!!!!!! HE SAID THAT???????????? Amazing. It's headed

for the folder.

[Guest guest]

Just rolling my eyes... cannot believe some doctors.

How about this one? Last year I asked my grandmother's (she had a

thyroidectomy DECADES ago and has been on levothyroxine ever since)

doctor to test her FT3 and FT4, and he said, " Free T3 and Free T4

tests are only for patients with hyperthyroidism. It would be UNWISE

to use those tests for someone with hypothyroidism. "

> The following is currently in our GIVE ME A BREAK! folder

containing

> ridiculous statements made by docs to members in this forum: