I adore receiving feedback about the success or failures related to this blog. Reason being, if I know what's broke (or difficult), I can fix it.
Once upon a time, I asked my thyroid doctor how I could find other doctors like him that prescribed desiccated thyroid. He referred me to the Broda Barnes Foundation. Two close family/friends informed me of the difficulty and the price involved in retrieving information from this foundation. From there, I started to do my investigative research.
I located Thyroid Change as a possible solution to those locating a good - nay, a excellent - doctor in their area who can actually improve their health. Having "perfect lab results" and horrible symptoms, joint and bone pain, muscle stiffness, brain fog, extreme fatigue, and a litany of other symptoms with no solution is horrible. I've been there. It's debilitating. If I have any mission with this blog, it's to help others who suffer like I have. It's not okay for anyone to be physically in that much pain, to have a simple work day be so trudgingly difficult to go through, or to have simple events throw everything into a tailspin. I've slept too much of my life away. I've struggled with dieting to only always gain weight.
Everything's changed now. I've lost 39 pounds. I'm pain-free (oh it was horrible before, by 10am I was at level 10 pain each day). The muscle stiffness from sitting in a car for 60 minutes is gone. I was walking like my Grandma Rose when I'd get out, similar to when she was 91 years old and had a hip replacement surgery and suffered from osteoporosis. In my early 30s, folks?! Now, I have loads of energy and I sleep less than my husband now (I used to sleep 10+ hours each night). I'm no longer the Texan Eskimo with sweater, slippers, fleece pajamas and socks walking around the house while everyone else wears shorts and a tank top. Now, I'm the one who is warmest. It's nice to feel alive. I feel like I've finally woken up.
I know I mention weight gain, but it's never a nah-nah-nah-boo-boo. I've never weighed this low as an adult. I weigh less now than I did in high school. I've been a diet Nazi to no avail. I'd exercise 5 times a week and nothing would come of it. I still weighed more than I do now. I exercise less often now (my biggest vice) and weigh less? My body wasn't working optimally and even if I don't lose that extra 20-30 pounds doc wants me to, I'm still going to rejoice each day because the pain is gone, the fatigue is gone, and the other weird symptoms (like vertigo and brain fog) are gone. One good doctor and my research-aholic mindset brought me that.
I want my readers to have this, too. Please click on this link. The Thyroid Change Organization's list of thyroid doctors has a strict criteria that include doctors that run full thyroid lab tests, including T3, T4, Reverse T3, TSH, Thyroid Antibodies, and (to me more importantly) responsive treatment to patient symptoms. I've met too many doctors who relied solely on lab results and ignored my host of symptoms and sent me on my (miserable) way.
Better yet, this list is FREE; there is no fee attached. To expedite your search, click on the State portion of the table and the entire list is alphabetized by state. Then scroll and scroll and find all the ones in your state. I'm happy to see some in the nearby areas or actual cities of family or friends who need a doctor like mine.
I wish you all the best of luck. One good doctor is all you need to really see changes. I hope you find that!!
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