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Originally Posted by AOII Angel
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.
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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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