Posted by whitmore on December 6, 2010, at 20:01:12
In reply to Re: How could I have avoided this? New pdoc--bad!!, posted by bleauberry on December 6, 2010, at 19:37:19
I agree with you Bleauberry. I believe there is something else going on and intend to pursue it with an alternative doctor. In the meantime, for psych. meds. I will go to my regular family doctor, since I feel I have nothing to gain by continuing to see him. I know that I have a severe reverse t3 problem, and a TSH of 3.75, which is high, though, since this is 'subclinical', doctors do not accept that it needs to be treated. I came off a supervised trial(my hormone doctor) of T3 as the mainstream docs. were yelling at me for taking so much(100 mcg)(though I felt better on it, and feel wretched now). I'm going to leave it for 8 weeks and get re-tested, probably to try again. I was arguing with the Pdoc. who said that he would give T3 up to 50 mcg as an adjunct to SSRI's as studies have shown the T3 to act as a 'booster', even in the 'euthyroid'. My point was that perhaps the patients were not in fact 'euthyroid' at all and the T3 was just restoring the missing hormone. He would have none of it. I just felt I wasn't being listened to at all. He even joked about when he was drooling in a nursing home, that would be his childrens' problem not his, thereby trivialising my very real fears.
Anyway, as far as the Lyme is concerned, what test can be done to rule it out? I know the Elisa test gives many false negatives, but there doesn't seem to be a positive one, or is there? Antibiotics are not benign treatments for imagined illnesses, especially in cases of chronic disease, where people have become very very sick after taking antibiotics for long periods of time.
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