This is a very refreshing article by a well known UK doctor. Such were the truths it revealed that many of the (at the time of writing) 264 replies came within the first two days after it was posted on his blog. Patients were virtually screaming (forgive the pun) with joy that at last somebody had recognised how they feel.
We do have some doctors in Singapore who recognise how we feel when T3 is missing but it seems that their hands are becoming increasingly tied with regard to helping us deal with it.
Some extracts from the article are posted here with permission but please read the whole article – Dr Kendrick speaks for so many of us. If only he could speak to the Ministry of Health!
Dr Kendrick admits:
To be honest, until about a year ago I had no real idea what T3 was either, but I have learned quite a lot since.
He certainly has. This paragraph really caught our attention (bolding by HCS):
The lab tests, especially for TSH, are far from 100% reliable, to say the very least. In fact the man who developed the test in the UK, at Amersham International in Wales, has told me that the test is virtually worthless in many cases (especially continuous testing when patients are taking thyroid hormone replacement).
And yet more good sense, which echoes what many of us at Hormone Choice Singapore have experienced (bolding by HCS):
Far more telling, from my point of view, is the fact that hundreds, indeed thousands of patients report that, although their blood tests were normal, they felt terrible, and that they have felt so much better when they have been given ‘excess’ T4 and/T3, or NDT (natural desiccated thyroid). Whilst there is no doubt that some of them are, to quote a medical colleague, ‘not tightly wrapped.’ I have spoken to many, many, people who are calm, rational and reasonable, and their stories are compelling. A hellish existence that was ‘cured’ by Dr Skinner and his like. I refuse to believe that all of these patients are ‘somatising’ fruitcakes.
Read the whole article at:
http://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2015/05/01/treating-thyroid-patients-like-children/
And comments at:
http://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2015/05/01/treating-thyroid-patients-like-children/#comments
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