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Originally Posted by Beryana
Oh, I understand how they interact - but that does not mean that one test shows the entire picture of how well they are currently interacting. And I'm NOT looking for a doctor who will diagnose only as I think something should be diagnosed - but rather a doctor who will actually WORK with a patient. Should I have had to call to see when I needed to come back to have blood work done again? Should I have to follow up with the doctor to let her know the medication is not really doing anything other than giving a good test number? Isn't that what PATIENT care is about? How about the breast biopsy that I had done that wasn't healing three weeks after it was done and was causing pain - to which I got a response of 'we can get you in in a week'? All of these are issues I have with my current doctor (and why I typically don't go to a doctor). Will there be a 'perfect' doctor? probably never. Am I looking for a doctor that will at least believe that I know my own body, what is normal, what is not, what is 'normal' that shouldn't be (i.e., consistent body temp of 95.9 - 96.2 is NOT how things should be working but that is currently 'normal' for me) and work with me where things aren't working the way things should be. Basically I am looking for a doctor who will remember that the patients are the reason you all have jobs - and sometimes the patients DO know a thing or two about their own bodies or want to be involved in (and know why) things are done a certain way.
The whole health case system/industry IS messed up - and mostly because the patient has been taken out of the equation and not allowed to be involved in many of the decisions which are made about their own health.
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I can tell you from LOTS of experience that very FEW people know their own bodies and what is normal. We get far too many people in ERs for abdominal pain thinking they have appendicitis because they haven't taken a poop in too long, women in breast centers who think they have breast masses but it turns out to be normal breast tissue, people in doctors' offices asking why they have a twinge or pinch or ache when they do this or that motion. Unfortunately, if every doctor worked up every single complaint because every patient "knows their body" we'd spend so much money and find next to no pathology. The body has aches and pains. 98.5 is a normal temperature that you see in nobody. Why are you checking your temperature anyway? Throw away your thermometer! You are still WRONG about the thyroid and T3/T4 levels. It's rather insulting, too, that you think that your research with hypothyroid patients trumps 13 years of education that endocrinologists have with regard to the thyroid. Maybe they know what they are talking about. Taking extra synthroid may make you feel better, but it's also associated with a lot of other side effects. You do what you want, but leave the ugly commentary about physicians behind.