Re: regarding insurance docs...

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E~ I would have to agree.  I personally end up staying with my ($15.00 co pay) docs, for the most obvious reasons, yet nothing is ever followed up on, or solved.They are treating me (my body) as separate things, while I think they are all linked... to me being hypo.I've been researching and hypo can be linked to...Asthma.  The thyroid squishes the neck and people feel like they can't breath. That would be me, they have me on Advair, there is no family history, and even the lung doc says my lungs sound fine, but yet they treat it anyway. Now my kidneys are having issues, I believe due to the treatment of steroids from the asthma meds. They give me pain meds (800 ibuprophen, that I don't take) for the pain in my hip and foot, which even I was thinking was from a herniated disk I have, but I have now read that hypo can cause that kind of pain.I also am having gallbladder problems, I have now discovered can be related to being hypo because the digestion is slowed down.Hypo can be caused by a viral infection, I had spiral meningitis in 2001, and everything went down hill form then on. Do I try to explain to them I think these are all connected?Do I bite the bullet and pay to see a private doc?Thanks for all of your time and thoughts, I'd appreciate any and all input.  I was up all night with a gallbladder attack and am on overdrive.Peace,  Jackie~Sam:The single hardest thing aobut having insurance isthat you want to use it. This keeps you withdocs...going doc to doc trying to get someone to helpyou. Since I have no insurance I do the healthcheckroute...and am happier for it. ITS cheaper and I getrun what I need. Now...having said that...you have some other thingsout of whack too that you may want a medical person'shelp with. I do think you tsh is too high as well...and maybe theincrease that she gave will help.~E:)

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KJ:

Unfortuately I have found that the more you say...the

more they can classify you as whackey. I have been to

a lot of docs...and have yet to really have a coherent

comprensive discussion about my treatment and how this

all developed.

EVEN..when I have tried to push for discussion, much

of what I say is forgotten by the doc. A few

appointments later we run over the same ground with

the same misinformation for me to tackle.

I have yet to feel heard.

You will find though that it helps to just feel them

out and see what they are open to.

~E)

--- Ken & Jackie Reimer quest4us@...>

wrote:

> E~

>

> I would have to agree. I personally end up staying

> with my ($15.00

> co pay) docs, for the most obvious reasons, yet

> nothing is ever

> followed up on, or solved.

>

> They are treating me (my body) as separate things,

> while I think they

> are all linked... to me being hypo.

>

> I've been researching and hypo can be linked to...

>

> Asthma. The thyroid squishes the neck and people

> feel like they

> can't breath. That would be me, they have me on

> Advair, there is no

> family history, and even the lung doc says my lungs

> sound fine, but

> yet they treat it anyway.

>

> Now my kidneys are having issues, I believe due to

> the treatment of

> steroids from the asthma meds.

>

> They give me pain meds (800 ibuprophen, that I don't

> take) for the

> pain in my hip and foot, which even I was thinking

> was from a

> herniated disk I have, but I have now read that hypo

> can cause that

> kind of pain.

>

> I also am having gallbladder problems, I have now

> discovered can be

> related to being hypo because the digestion is

> slowed down.

>

> Hypo can be caused by a viral infection, I had

> spiral meningitis in

> 2001, and everything went down hill form then on.

>

> Do I try to explain to them I think these are all

> connected?

>

> Do I bite the bullet and pay to see a private doc?

>

> Thanks for all of your time and thoughts, I'd

> appreciate any and all

> input. I was up all night with a gallbladder attack

> and am on

> overdrive.

>

> Peace, Jackie~

>

>

>

>

>

>

> > Sam:

> >

> > The single hardest thing aobut having insurance is

> > that you want to use it. This keeps you with

> > docs...going doc to doc trying to get someone to

> help

> > you.

> >

> > Since I have no insurance I do the healthcheck

> > route...and am happier for it. ITS cheaper and I

> get

> > run what I need.

> >

> > Now...having said that...you have some other

> things

> > out of whack too that you may want a medical

> person's

> > help with.

> >

> > I do think you tsh is too high as well...and maybe

> the

> > increase that she gave will help.

> >

> > ~E:)

> >

>

>

TOTAL-Thyroidectomy 26 months post-op.

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