visit to top doc uk

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well finally had my visit to see Dr Downing in York yesterday so reporting

back

Was an interesting consult and I now don't feel like an overweight,

middle-aged, female hypochondriac.

he was very surprised my GP hadn't given me a diagnosis of Hashimoto's with

my 'slightly raised antibodies 885 and a chance of perhaps developing

hypothyroid in teh future' (my GP's word's) so gave one himself. He doesn't

think I have a 's problem which I had originally thought and why I had

found him sp that is good but did say because of all my issues I.e candida,

low female hormones, ibs etc it was difficult to know where to start first

as

they were all obviously related ( how great to hear someone finally tell me

this !!!!!) so we are dealing with souping up my adrenals first once they

are in order he can start looking at the Hashimoto's and also check for any

other autoimmune problems I am bound to have given my family history but

doesn't want to bombard my system yet.

He commended me on teh action of reading and self-medicating and said I had

done very well to get my body to teh functioning state it is now in and it

was a matter of taking it further along.

I am to continue to take the natural adrenal glandulars I have been buying

form teh nutri-centre in london as well as the Thyroid ones (which are

stronger than I thought as 1 tablet is equivalent to 2 grains of armour so

that is good) and he prefers me to be on a natural rather than synthetic

meds which is fab. As my temperature is increasing, hit normal the other

morning for half an hour yaay!!, and I can actually finally feel a pulse

feels they are doing me good will keep on them fro another couple of months

and then do another saliva test to see if there is a change. the big test

this month is that although my period is due any time now I don't have

thyroid foot which ahs crippled me at this time in teh past few months.

I am also increasing to maximum the supplements I have been on which I

thought I could safely do but was one of the reasons I went to see him just

in case I couldn't and adding a couple more (he thought I was probably

magnesium low)

I can post these to the list if anyone is interested in his recommendations.

I am glad I went despite the cost as I feel I have validated my illness and

what I have been doing the last few months. I'm sure that if I had gone to

see him a year ago then I would have been vastly improved by now but am also

on teh track he would have put me on anyway. It would have been nice to walk

out of there with a quick fix answer but as we all know there isn't one and

at least now I feel I have some support at last even if it did cost me a

fortune. It will be interesting to see how my visit to him compares with my

visit to the NHS endo when he finally deigns to see me

Dawn