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Originally Posted by ButterflyA
That's what happened to me. I have Fibro and was told all my life that my thyroid levels were just "low end of normal" (whatever that is, I don't remember my numbers). I kept insisting I have all the symptoms my mother did of hypothyroid etc. and they kept telling me I was crazy.
Weeelll... got tested in March, and what a surprise! I'm officially one of the ones with hypothyroid! ha I TOLD them!
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I had nurses at my church and one doctor tell me to get my thyroid checked. I went through TEN YEARS of doctors telling me I was depressed without so much as a blood test. They would check my heart, lungs and eyes and decree I wasn't ill, that I was a depressed hypocondriac. (Although they didn't actually use the word hypocondirac, but implied as much).
I was told to quit "doctor shopping" and that I should just admit I was depressed. This is their first tactic. To get you out of the way by putting you on antidepressants.
I had been depressed after a divorce and this tired wasn't the same thing. Not at all. I didn't feel like giving up nor did I feel hopeless. I had just gotten a new job that was really fulfilling. I was on cloud 9 but so tired.
They gave me the run-around for all of the ten years. I gave up until I noticed when I ran a brush through my hair that there was a ton of hair that had come out. Now I have waist-length hair, so I hadn't noticed it before. I got so scared.
I finally went to my husband's doctor and DEMANDED a blood test. You have to play stupid with doctors or you will be labeled a hypocondriac. They (hypocondiracs) look up diseases then "get" them. *SIGH* So if you have ANY knowledge, you're labeled. Well, I was finally diagnosed. The lab average for "normal" then (7 years ago) was .4 to 4. My TSH was 75!
If one of those stupid doctors would've tested me long time before, I wouldn't have had to go through so much pain for so long.
The lack of thyroid hormone, hits every part of your body. This includes joint pain, headaches, carpel tunnel (I also had tarsel tunnel = in the foot) and I had trouble even walking.
We have to educate ourselves and find pages like Mary Shomons to know what is really going on.
Drug companies are giving huge amounts of money to med schools to teach "their" version and test results, instead of independent companies results. Doctors are propagandized early to treat people with drugs before finding out causes for things, and our health care suffers in the process. (Example: Restless leg syndrome can most often be helped by taking potassium. Especially when you're on a diet and up your water intake. Potassium is passed in the urine and when you drink more you urinate more, therefore depleating your potassium. Watch TV. Their cure is not replacing what you're short on which is causing the symptoms. Their cure is more drugs to treat symptoms only, not finding the cause. It's really sad.)
I had been treated really badly by doctors and don't want to deal with them but because of my thyroid problems I must. My health care depends on which drug company has the most interest in medical schools.