My last post on the connection of everything to the thryoid inspired a friend who is a very successful businesswoman to send me a message. With her permission, I am posting most of the note here. Her sentiments speak volumes to the frustration most of us are feeling.
Hi LauraBeth - Been following your posts and probably no one writes about it because it is so frustrating and the doctors cannot agree on it a lot of times too. Sorry to hear you are going through this
I spent $5,000 with a “Thyroid Doctor” that was a big joke. (Name removed) went with me to her office and asked if this was really a “Doctor” as her whole operation was so unprofessional, it did not give you a feeling of confidence. After multitudes of costly blood tests, mega rounds of vitamins prescribed, I went back to my doctor at Kaiser who disagreed with EVERYTHING the expert doctor had found. Now this same woman doctor is treating a friend of mine and she is delighted with her.
I hope your experience is better once you get a diagnosis and successful
In a follow on note, she gave even more insight to her frustration….
Kaiser is my primary care doctor and since they did not agree with the other doctor’s written lab reports, it was either stay with the costly unprofessional doctor or stay with Kaiser and have them just monitor my blood every year. I chose the latter and gave up on trying to self diagnose myself. I do like that Kaiser is more proactive in prevention now too - I just don’t know which way to go with them re the thyroid. I also had a hysterectomy early 30’s, (that was more than 8 years ago though - LOL) so not sure if that has anything to do with it. You can strip and post away - I still just shake my head when I think of the experience. It should not have such diverse - read opposite - opinions from doctors. I get the feeling that they really don’t know that much about it so tend to not do a lot to “Fix” it.
I hope you find out more about yours and feel better.
Note to the medical community…Women are busy leading successful lives. We do not have the time or finances to throw at you because you can’t get your act together! Enough with the conflicting information already!
