off to the doc - any last minute advice?

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Registered: 03-31-2003
off to the doc - any last minute advice?
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Thu, 11-25-2004 - 10:12am

Hi all..

Well, I'm off to my family doc today for the results from my bloodwork a few weeks ago. He did not do "full" thyroid, only TSH. But the last time it was 3.8... he sd it was normal.

I've been researching the symptoms on hypo and have LOTS. (Keep in mind I have Fibro) But in the last 6-8 months I have had EXTREME fatigue, severe brain fog (trouble getting through otherwise easy tasks, like the l-2-3 kinda thing), low libido, extremem sensitivy to cold (this has been the last 2 winters), MOODS beyond belief, feeling hopeless (depression??), 20 pounds that I CANNOT take off despite excercise/diet, skin itch, dry hair. Seems like I have them all!

I showed this list to my doc the last time I went and ASKED him to recheck my thyroid. I'm sure today though that if it comes back 3.8 or lower then he'll be insisting its NORMAL.

He talked last time about maybe referring me back to the rhuematologist I used to see 2 years ago for fibro, I feel like that would be dead end too. Although the RM wwas an expert on fibro, I felt as though he was nothing more than a sympathetic sounding board. (sounds cruel, but he really never did anything over the 4 years I saw him that actually HELPED).

So.. knowing (or at least suspecting) what is going to happen today.. I am very hesitant about the whole trip today. I am so sick of being patronized! I KNOW that there is something wrong, and that whatever it is my symptoms have gotten WORSE. Fibro is not supposed to get WORSE. You have good days and bad days yes... but I know my body and this is not just FIBRO.

I could go to my ob/gyn (that I've known for 20 years) but I'm not 100% sure that he doesnt have his preconceptions too. He's gone to holistic medicine (which I am very skeptical of) and I'm afraid that seeing him is gonna do nothing more than drain my pocketbook.

I am in such a rut here girls! Need your advise...

(maybe I should show the family doc the fibro/thyroid link article that I printed off last night & ask him to send me to an ENdo??? ) Sigh... wish me luck...

Love to all, Marley

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Registered: 03-20-2003
Thu, 11-25-2004 - 9:17pm

Hi Marley101,


I briefly forgot that you're in Canada (I think) so I was wondering how you got an appointment on a holiday.

 

Calley7