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Originally Posted by Beryana
So even if you are the best doctor for me, because I happen to work for a place that offers the 'wrong' insurance and chose the 'wrong' company for my own policy I can't see you without paying out of pocket? How is that truly helping the patient? "I'm sorry, but I won't see you because of the insurance you carry and can't afford to pay the bills out of your own pocket.. . ." I understand doctors are running a business, but shouldn't the patients be at the heart of that business? (and I did offer to pay for those tests - and was still given lip service).
How is it my pituitary gland is what is tested to see how my thyroid is working? Wouldn't you actually want to see how the thyroid is actually functioning in order to properly medicate? Yes, I am a silly lay person who has done research by talking to other hypothyroid patients - and only one of the symptoms you listed is my concern. Your responses are why I am going 'outside the system' to someone who will actually work with me about my symptoms and all that - and if it should happen to be something else, let's work on that but most of what I'm experiencing are the same things experienced by other hypothyroid patients - and looking at the whole picture is better than one test of a gland not related to the thyroid.
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Wow! I was going to post a huge post, but it's not worth it. I can tell that you are frustrated, but endocrinology is a very complicated system. I can assure you that you are very confused as to how the thyroid and pituitary gland interact. I hope that you are able to get your symptoms under control, but there is no great insurance/physician conspiracy to keep hypothyroid patients in insurance plans that keep them from seeing physicians that will help them. If you are willing to pay out of pocket to see someone who will order exams the way you see fit, more power to you, but that is the exact opposite of the cost cutting measures that are in the pipeline for the future like it or not.