With the Beast fighting back with all it had I decided to make today a stretch day. I have a program I use that covers every muscle group and takes around an hour. A work out in itself but at the end you feel like you have had a massage, mmmmm just what my body needed. I still found it hard to actually commit to this until late afternoon but wished I had done it earlier after I had completed it. I feel so much better now.
I suppose today would be as good a day as any to give you a little insight into why at this moment in time I am proceeding with my battle against Hashimoto's without the help of the medical profession. As I said from the outset I have had this condition since I was in my very early twenty's. It took until I was 45 for anyone to actually test me for Hashi's and to come up with a diagnosis for me. This was not my primary health care Dr, but an integrated Dr I began seeing who I had heard worked with people with my symptoms.
She ran a whole raft of tests on me and discovered my thyroid antibodies were over 2600. I did some research, they are supposed to be between 0 and 50. This was not looking good. I will not go into all the treatment I received as I just want to explain why I have no Dr at this point in time. The treatment I received though was not very successful but I feel that is because the Dr wanted me to broaden my diet. I was eating dairy at this time. Things really did not improve at all.
At one point this Dr, in an effort to save me money told me to go to my GP( Primary healthcare Dr) to have scripts renewed as it was costing me a lot every time I had to see her. My GP had been kept apprised of everything that was being done. To my regret I followed her advice. My GP was not in anyway supportive of the fact I had sought help elsewhere and was more interested in defending the fact she had never tested me for this condition. She kept saying it should not have been tested for because my thyroid levels were within the normal range.
Ummmm 'Hello', It was tested for and discovered that I do in fact have high levels of antibodies. I have a problem. I was very low that day, very low! I sat in her office and had her talk down to me and tell me firstly I should not have been tested and secondly that I should not be on the natural hormone as it was dangerous! This told me all I needed to know about her level of understanding of this disease. I apparently knew more than she did. I almost begged her that day to help me. She said she would be writing to the Thyroid Clinic on my behalf. I left feeling a little better about her, thinking maybe she was on my side after all. I really am a naive soul.
Some weeks later I received a phone call from the integrated Dr who had been treating me. Apparently my GP had written to the Thyroid clinic just as she had said she would. What she wrote was that she believed in this country they do not treat Hashimoto's and she felt the drugs I had been given were dangerous and should not be prescribed. The integrated Dr now wanted to step away from my case. I could hear in her voice she was concerned for her career. This left me with the option of going back to my GP, who by her own admission would not treat me.
For the last three years I have not seen a Dr. I was very ill with the flu last year but could not bring myself to go to a health care professional, and I use that term loosely who refused to treat the condition that plagues my life. I received a letter from her clinic the other day stating I had not seen the Dr in three years did I want to remain on their books or had I found another Dr. WOW! I still cannot find a way to talk with these people civilly so have not informed them that I no longer have a Dr or more correctly one who gives a damn about my health. I guess I will have to pick up that pen one day and get my records sent here to me.
I don't have a photo from today so will post another video from last night
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