I need to vent.......

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Hi all,

Just looking for a bit of advice and need to vent really. Just come

back from my GP practice where I was to see the nurse there for my

routine blood test. After looking on the computer she said I wasn't

due my blood test until June (I last had one at the beginning of

March) The doctor I saw for the results of the last test said to have

my blood test in two months which would technically the beginning of

may but as I run out of my levothyroxine at the end of april I

thought it wise to get my blood test in april so I could be reviewed

before my meds ran out completely.

She was a bit offhand and insisted that I wasn't to get my blood test

till june and she wasn't going to do it. When I said I was to run out

of my levothyroxine she said well I can prescribe you some more until

your test is due. Had I not been newly diagnosed and had I felt that

I was controlled on the dose I am currently taking (100mcg) this

wouldn't have been a problem, but this last fortnight I have been

getting some of my old symptoms back including oedema, memory loss,

course hair/hair loss, waking with numb limbs, pain in my joints,

tearfulness and feeling like I have something 'stuck' in my throat.

So I insisted that she did my blood test as I felt I needed

increasing. She made me feel like I had no idea what I was talking

about and how could I possibly know, she made a half hearted attempt

at taking my blood and failed and then suggested that I get it done

somewhere else like the hospital blood lab. I demanded for an

appointment to see my GP in which I will ask to be referred to an

endo consultant as I feel my management has been less than

acceptable. Basically I was diagnosed given thyroxine and left to get

on with it. I wasn't told what the condition involved or even a

minute scrap of information I have learned from this group, without

this group I wouldn't have had a clue.

Was I right to insist for a review? or is this all part and parcel of

trying to get the meds evened out to the level I need? I have felt

great on the 100mcg but as I said I now feel I am starting to need

more. Is this normal? am I just getting used to the meds and you do

get a lull after the initial burst of energy? I would appreciate any

information/advice you could give me.

Thanks for 'listening' you are all great.

Ali