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What I Learned About Endocrinology - A Survivor's Story This is just to pass on what I learned from experience after a lot of years of wasting time with thyroid doctors. I think a lot of people are getting bad advice and medicine that is making them huge, the same as I did, and they are blamed for it and don't know what to do. The Standard Deal We all learn from high school health class that all big people just eat too much, except these oddball thyroid people, and that's rare anyway. Yeah, right! Again, I don't speak as an expert, just from experience, but it seems there is just one way drs in the US look at thyroid problems, just one number, and as long as that number is good, they stop looking and the rest of your problems are your fault. TSH is the standard of measure. If it's high, take a thyroid replacement like Synthroid. Get TSH normal and hold. Problem solved. If you are 280 lb, sheesh, WHAT are you EATing? The Wrecks This is where I ended up, and I meet enough others it can't be so "rare." Instead of re-typing it all, read up on how to clean up thyroid-medicine created wrecks here.. :) Don't Go There? I guess what still puzzles me is why even pretty good endocrine people I was seeing made it a point to steer me away from "hormone doctors," and never discussed complications like reverse T3, or helped with the other clues that indicated more problems than thyroid. It was like they had one number to fix, and I should stop arguing so much. They were useless. |
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