Re: Cindi Re: 2 months on Armour feel better, then b...

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In a message dated 12/17/2004 12:23:40 AM Eastern Standard Time,

FlyingDreams@... writes:

> I'm so sick of trying to get well.

> Defending and begging for meds. And the dr asks me why I am angry?

> Get real! 15 yrs of my life GONE. Give me those years back! The

> best time of my life, in my prime and it's all gone, gone gone never

> to be seen again. Give me a break! 37 yrs old and it's gone

,

I know EXACTLY how you feel. I went thru this with two doctors.

The first one was the ENT who diagnosed me. At my first lab check after

starting Armour....while on 1 grain he thought (1 1/2 grain actually)...he wrote

on the lab sheet " Thyroid OKAY " . WHAT? My TSH was 1. something but the Free

T4 had not even budged from where it was at diagnosis which was .77. And he's

saying thyroid okay? I exchanged some angry words with his nice nurse. And

fired him pretty quickly.

So I decided to go to a endo doc on the Top Doc list. HAHAHA. By that time

I was feeling pretty good on 3 grains with about all hypo symptoms gone. But

when she did lab work she wanted me to drop 1/2 grain because my TSH was

suppressed. I WAS FURIOUS. I mean what the heck is going on I was thinking?

Why

are they trying to keep us sick?

And I was still mad from this diagnosis having been missed for 25 years which

is how long I had been having some bad symptoms. And for 15 years really bad.

And now they weren't even going to let me get well?

I said the HECK WITH THEM....I ordered my some more Armour enough to last for

over 6 months...and I determined that i needed to get well enough for a while

before I could deal with any more stupid doctors. Because I knew the stress

of dealing with this while I was trying to heal was very detrimental.

Best decision I ever made for myself. I've been treating myself for over 6

months and am doing pretty well. And far better than I would have been had I

continued to listen to a doctor.

This treatment of us is criminal in my opinion. There is no excuse for this

type of malpractice in treating a hypo person and using their labs to

determine how they feel. I remember asking the first doctor's nurse - does he

even

CARE how I feel? Do you suppose he might ask?

Anyway...that 's my story. My husband helped me work thru the anger and he's

been supportive of me self medicating. I do plan to look for a doctor after

Christmas..but this time I'm well enough (as in my brain functions pretty well

- and I'll blow them away if they start crap with me) to deal with the

doctors.

So yes...I understand. I truly do. Doctors..by their failure to listen to

ME and instead relied on a TSH test...stole most of my life. I've had a good

life, but it's been hard many times because of the way I felt. That's why I'm

here now - I do NOT want anyone else to go thru what I have...and lose

precious years.

Cindi