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Thanks Pris, It’s therapy in itself hearing words of encouragement and understanding (that makes me sound like a right old wuss). My biggest problem is trying to get accross to my gp the confusion I feel about what is going on with my body and mental state. I seem to go through cycles of physical issues, which are fairly quickly overtaken by exhaustion and emotional turmoil. I was treated for about 2 years by an endo at the Christie hospital in Manchester UK, but after RAI and a long stabilization period (2 years) I was refered back to my GP, that was over 5 years ago. I didn’t quite realise that most of the battle was just beginning.
I’m going to try and find a new GP. In the meantime I wonder if anyone could help me de-mistify a couple of issues I’m struggling to get my head around?
Are the T’s blood tests testing for abmnormalities in the imune system or are they specific to thyroid functions? I completely understand that we are all patients or friends/family of patients and not doctors, but when i suggest these types of questions to my GP I’m made to feel very much like I’m speaking out of turn.
(I also solemly promise to post on good days
xxxHi Kimberly, and thanks so much for your warm welcome. I think I will change my doctor. I can’t see my current doc being very empathetic towards me at all. The health care sysem in the UK is can be frustrating at GP level.
Testing Grave’s antibodies has never been suggested to me, in fact for all my frustrating research in trying to understand what the heck is going on with my body, I’ve never even come accross it. is it a new test? I remember many years ago a GP telling me my white blood cell count was hi. Is that it? All my T’s come back stable.
My mind’s like a soaked through sponge these days so new information seems to take an age to make sense
Doctors seem to look at me a bit puzzled, and I think thats probably my fault because I’m probably asking them for all the answers without using the right questions. Hope that make some sense x
