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Hopefully, those of you who read this Blog have also read the page titled GIVE ME A BREAK, because I just added #37 of another HILARIOUSLY RIDICULOUS comment made by a medical-school-trained doctor!! hahahahaha. Though we can laugh, it’s also SO SAD!!!!!! No wonder we have had to figure things out for ourselves! GIVE ME A BREAK!
It’s pure and unadulterated CRAZY MAKING. You are on T4-only meds like Synthroid or Levoxyl. You have problem after problem after problem. You go to the doctor who runs the TSH, and he states emphatically “You are normal”.
“I am normal?? Then WHY do I feel like CRAP??”
The above is exactly and precisely what happened to me for more than 17 years while on Synthroid and later Levoxyl. I suffered immensely when I would do anything physical–pounding heartrate, feeling hot, excruciating insomnia, and fatigue SO profound that I thought I would DIE from it. And……I was always told I was “normal”, I was “adequately treated” and that there was no explanation for my symptoms.
Or take the scenario of a gal who recently contacted me in the deepest state of frustration. She had started on Armour over a month ago, has very suppressed adrenals which she is attempting to correct with adrenal support, yet she is flipflopping between hypo and hyper (a sign that she’s not on enough adrenal support, and/or her antibodies still have control). She is also suffering at night with “shaking severe heart palpitations”.
Yet, when she goes to the doctor, he states “your pulse is normal” and he dismisses her concerns and symptoms. And she states “If I go to the emergency room, they will run a TSH and say I am normal which is what they have done for years. I just cannot make myself go back there. I would rather just die than tell me I am normal. I am scared and do not know where to go or what to do.”
Unfortunately, there is hardly a thyroid patient around who doesn’t COMPLETELY understand the above feelings stated by this patient.
It is profoundly and sadly remarkable that the very professionals we seek out to help us, end up keeping us sick because they make ink spots on a piece of paper more important than symptoms…or they fail to listen to and reasonably consider that something else needs treatment–in her case, her adrenals!! We have not been “normal”!! Another good reason this site exists: because doctors fail us over and over, and we, as patients have had to figure it out ourselves, and pass it along. And thankfully, there can be a growing doctors out there who will LISTEN to us!
The needle on the record player keeps skipping over the same note. News/Entertainment programs like NBC’s The Today Show continue to present the same inaccurate globbity-glook that has always been presented by news media.
The segment on today’s April 10th program, in a “Today’s Woman” interview by Katie Couric with Dr. Judith Reichman, was only more of the same flawed and toxic information that has kept potentially MILLIONS of thyroid patients sick for decades.
So what if the TSH “is a very simply blood test”, as stated by Reichman. It’s an INACCURATE blood test! The TSH test, with it’s lousy range, fails to show the problem for years, even while patients have symptoms that scream hypothyroid–which of course, doctors ignore. And when the TSH does show a problem, the patient is kept within it’s dubious range, and told that those lingering hypo symptoms have nothing to do with their thyroid. Give me a break.
Additionally, it was clear that the medication of choice referred to by Reichman is the substandard T4-only medication, commonly known by the brand names Synthroid or Levoxyl. THEY DON’T WORK, any more than an elevator that only rises to the 5th floor in a 50 story building “works”!!
This site does not exist because T4 meds have been working! This site exists because thousands upon thousands of patients have had continuing symptoms on these lousy medications for years upon years, and have been ignored and put on anti-depressants, statins, and anti-anxiety meds (to name a few) to counter the very symptoms brought on by an inferior medication and a rigid reliance on a TSH lab test.
To NBC’S TODAY SHOW: if you are simply a monstrous media machine that regurgitates the same lousy and vacant information that has always been out there, so be it. Your reputation will preceed you. Or, if you want to become known as a organization that is UP-TO-DATE and willing to HELP the millions of viewers who can potentially be watching you, GET IT RIGHT!!! Because what you presented on this segment STUNK TO HIGH HEAVEN and only serves to keep millions of thyroid patients sick.
