In a message dated 5/28/2002 12:59:21 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
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> . Her thyroid peroxidase
> auto antibody is raised but the serum TSH has never been higher than
> 9. I think this is characteristic of anxiety state characterised by
> variable expression of autonomic function. I therefore recommend that
> she stops all thryoid replacement until the serum TSH crosses 15
> mIU/L."  >>>
>
> Thyroid Friends,

When I read this, I recalled a prayer that I say for docs like that one: "May
they burn in Hell-forever, amen." That is the most horrible thing that I
heard today, and yet it is so typical of why we all suffer so much, with what
should be a darn easy illness to treat: the Jerks confuse the lab slip with
the patient. Times like this, I mutter a silent prayer of thanks to my Higher
Power, that I was not within arms reach of the doc who said that.

Once you have gotten out of Hypothyroid Hell, you will not want to go back
for any reason. The bitterness of battles fought with docs we pay to protect
us, the chronic fatigue that reduces life to the brief periods between naps,
the horrible "living death" that steals our ability to be the kind of
husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, daughters, sons that we would like to be,
all come back, to haunt us, for years after we recover.

The residuals of hypothyroidism are often more acutely painful than the
illness, because as our brain works better, and we see how impoverished our
lives have been.

I am thinking seriously about starting a Thyroid Support Group. I need one as
much as anyone else I know.


Doc Don




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