I had my thyroid removed 15 years ago for Graves disease. Almost died post op from a hematoma, asked for help breathing and why my neck drains were empty but my neck was wider than my shoulders. Result? Gaslit. Told I wasn't clearing my throat properly and sent a gadget to blow into. After attempting to get in my car and find a hospital …
I had my thyroid removed 15 years ago for Graves disease. Almost died post op from a hematoma, asked for help breathing and why my neck drains were empty but my neck was wider than my shoulders. Result? Gaslit. Told I wasn't clearing my throat properly and sent a gadget to blow into. After attempting to get in my car and find a hospital that would help me, a doctor parking her car saw the urgency and used her scalpel to remove my stitches and hematoma partially to allow breathing more easily. Surgery to repair the bleed took nine hours and lost me my parathyroids. You'd think that was the worst over, but no. I had to beg for replacement thyroid hormone and, when that didn't work, asked for a different medication. Told it was levothyroxine or nothing. That was Gaslit no.2. Every symptom of the resultant hypothyroidism - fatigue, hair loss, memory loss, weight gain, low mood, chest pain, muscle pain - it was somatoform, all in my head. Sent to Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and put on Zopiclone, Tramadol, Amitriptyline, Beta Blockers, Lactolose, Statins, NSAIDS etc. Went back, asked for my T3 levels to be treated, they were undetectable by now. Told it was not relevent when on levothyroxine. Gaslit for the 3rd and final time. Sacked that doctor's sorry ass and found one I could pay for, trust and work alongside. Got some desiccated pig thyroid, recovered all my health and haven't trusted allopathic doctors or the system ever since. As for the jabs, oh how I scoffed...
Wow, what a story. Sorry you had to go thru all that, but good to read that you found a good doc who's helping you. Here's to you continuing to get healthier and stronger.
Yes and it also proves your point about their training removing the potential to think outside the paradigm doc! There's a heck of a lot of money in keeping people under-medicated. We hoover up drugs like no tomorrow when hypo and usually go on to develop type 2 Diabetes and heart issues. I campaigned for T3/Natural thyroid and improved testing only to be met with Endocrinologists at the Scottish Parliament literally chanting "The Science is Settled".
I had my thyroid removed 15 years ago for Graves disease. Almost died post op from a hematoma, asked for help breathing and why my neck drains were empty but my neck was wider than my shoulders. Result? Gaslit. Told I wasn't clearing my throat properly and sent a gadget to blow into. After attempting to get in my car and find a hospital that would help me, a doctor parking her car saw the urgency and used her scalpel to remove my stitches and hematoma partially to allow breathing more easily. Surgery to repair the bleed took nine hours and lost me my parathyroids. You'd think that was the worst over, but no. I had to beg for replacement thyroid hormone and, when that didn't work, asked for a different medication. Told it was levothyroxine or nothing. That was Gaslit no.2. Every symptom of the resultant hypothyroidism - fatigue, hair loss, memory loss, weight gain, low mood, chest pain, muscle pain - it was somatoform, all in my head. Sent to Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and put on Zopiclone, Tramadol, Amitriptyline, Beta Blockers, Lactolose, Statins, NSAIDS etc. Went back, asked for my T3 levels to be treated, they were undetectable by now. Told it was not relevent when on levothyroxine. Gaslit for the 3rd and final time. Sacked that doctor's sorry ass and found one I could pay for, trust and work alongside. Got some desiccated pig thyroid, recovered all my health and haven't trusted allopathic doctors or the system ever since. As for the jabs, oh how I scoffed...
Wow, what a story. Sorry you had to go thru all that, but good to read that you found a good doc who's helping you. Here's to you continuing to get healthier and stronger.
It's amazing how stubborn some doctors can be to only use levothyroxine...
Yes and it also proves your point about their training removing the potential to think outside the paradigm doc! There's a heck of a lot of money in keeping people under-medicated. We hoover up drugs like no tomorrow when hypo and usually go on to develop type 2 Diabetes and heart issues. I campaigned for T3/Natural thyroid and improved testing only to be met with Endocrinologists at the Scottish Parliament literally chanting "The Science is Settled".