I recently had my first appointment with the MD/alternative doctor.
It went super great!
He’s a very warm, caring, kind doctor and he is very passionate about health and getting better. Several times in my visit he said we’ll get me better. I felt very cared about and like we were finally going to make some progress. He was very thorough with my medical papers and symptom intake, etc. He also carried out a physical exam more thorough than other doctors have done.
He looked over my past thyroid labs and mentioned that according to the new range by the endocrine association, I’ve been over 3.0 a number of times, showing hypothroid. And he said that even normal range people can be hypothyroid, especially if the dysfunction is with a gland in the brain (hypothalamus, pituitary, etc.) He also looked at my past adrenal testing, and said the morning range is actually 15-25 or 30, and my cortisol was at 10 once, 12 something, and then 8.0, plus he took my blood pressure three times and it kept dropping! It went from 104, to 98, to 90. He thinks that’s an adrenal issue. He also took into account all my other symptoms and problems I’ve been having, and really thinks I’ve got a thyroid, adrenal and iron problem. He ordered lots of testing to check everything again and other new things. He said my magnesium looked okay last time, and he wants to see where my magnesium and vitamin D are currently, as the D was low.
So, today I had 10 vials of blood drawn. He’s having me check my temperature every morning for 5 mornings. Plus I have to do an at-home, 24 hour thyroid urine test and fed ex it.
He wants to see me in a few weeks and he said he’d have the labs back but not the urine one yet, but it should be enough to get started on medicine. He said we’ll go slow, and it can take a few months before I start feeling better, but some notice improvement sooner.
I vented to him my frustration about how the other doctors say “you’re fine” and he said “normal” is a wide range. There is a wide gap between dead and okay. He believes in treating the mild conditions that most doctors ignore. He said they tend to only do something if it’s really serious or life-threatening. He really wants to get me functioning more normally. He even said that, after telling him how I get tired trying to jog, that we should get me to where I can run (not that I should run, but just to be healthy to have the ability).
I’m totally happy and counting my blessings!
