My doc appointment this week basically went like this:
Me doctor, you dumb, confused patient. Me know what's best for dumb stupid patient.
Okay, I may not have a medical degree, and I may not know everything there is to know about the human body, however, I have had to spent about TWENTY FIVE years or so researching this disease every single day. I think I know something about this disease and my own body and what I need and don't need.
So she ignored my screaming back and hip pain and is still refusing to do an xray because she feels it's a waste of time and won't change anything. And I feel, I want the xray, I want to know why I'm in so much pain. I think it's very important to see what is going on. So that right there, I may have to switch doctors.
She ignored me on how much thyroid med and the kind I feel I need. I know I need the T3/T4 combo because before they reformulated Armor, I was doing good on it. She won't give me a T3/T4 combo now because I had a bad reaction when they reformulated and it scared her off T3/T4 combos, which she was already leery of. So she's just sticking me on another T4 and still at an inadequate dose. I know I need the 100mcg or even alittle higher, but she only wants me on the 88. And I know I need higher because I've been taking the 100 all week till I can fill the prescrip, and low and behold, I feel better for the first time in two months on the 100. I'm finally not freezing to death.
I'm just tired of having a doc that doesn't know anything about this disease, doesn't know how to treat it. Keeps me undermedicated all around. Leaves me in alot of pain. And if I complain about that, all I get is the dumb argument of "I don't want to addict you." Really, number one, I've never in last lot of years seen it happen to anyone except idiot celebrities. Number two, is it better to leave me in screaming pain where I cannot function at all from the pain. I don't think so.
I'm tired of having to be my own doctor, but I don't have the money to get anything I need that would help me. But at this point, I'm safer treating myself than dealing with someone who doesn't know what they are doing.
Me doctor, you dumb, confused patient. Me know what's best for dumb stupid patient.
Okay, I may not have a medical degree, and I may not know everything there is to know about the human body, however, I have had to spent about TWENTY FIVE years or so researching this disease every single day. I think I know something about this disease and my own body and what I need and don't need.
So she ignored my screaming back and hip pain and is still refusing to do an xray because she feels it's a waste of time and won't change anything. And I feel, I want the xray, I want to know why I'm in so much pain. I think it's very important to see what is going on. So that right there, I may have to switch doctors.
She ignored me on how much thyroid med and the kind I feel I need. I know I need the T3/T4 combo because before they reformulated Armor, I was doing good on it. She won't give me a T3/T4 combo now because I had a bad reaction when they reformulated and it scared her off T3/T4 combos, which she was already leery of. So she's just sticking me on another T4 and still at an inadequate dose. I know I need the 100mcg or even alittle higher, but she only wants me on the 88. And I know I need higher because I've been taking the 100 all week till I can fill the prescrip, and low and behold, I feel better for the first time in two months on the 100. I'm finally not freezing to death.
I'm just tired of having a doc that doesn't know anything about this disease, doesn't know how to treat it. Keeps me undermedicated all around. Leaves me in alot of pain. And if I complain about that, all I get is the dumb argument of "I don't want to addict you." Really, number one, I've never in last lot of years seen it happen to anyone except idiot celebrities. Number two, is it better to leave me in screaming pain where I cannot function at all from the pain. I don't think so.
I'm tired of having to be my own doctor, but I don't have the money to get anything I need that would help me. But at this point, I'm safer treating myself than dealing with someone who doesn't know what they are doing.