LOL! So am I!! No, I had fired my doctor because she wasn't listening to me that I had plateaued in a not so good place and then she got nasty with me on the phone, so that's when I fired her. I was only going to give her one more chance to actually listen to me anyway. I had spent nearly a year trying to get her to listen to me, so it's wasn't something I decided lightly.
I started using NatraBio when I was in treatment the first time I was infected. I had been seeing a Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner as, quite literally, no other doctor would take me on as a patient saying "the doctor doesn't want to take on such a complicated case right now" , even though I literally got on my knees with that last 4 offices I visited and told them that I had run out of other doctors to ask.
Anyway, she evaluated me and almost refused to take me on as a patient as well. She wanted me to go check myself into the hospital. Can't do that, the first thing they do here is put someone that sick on steroids, and I knew what would happen, so I said I would just go home, thanked her for her time and asked what we owed her. She chose to try, so she wanted me to find a way to get on thyroid and adrenal support and I found the NatraBio brand I could get started on. In Arkansas (and other states) only MD's can write prescript
ions, order testing or admit people to the hospital - so she couldn't be of any help there, and I knew that there weren't any doc's willing to see me other than her. So no testing at that point. Only her evaluation. I healed very well though and never had any symptoms of over stimulating my adrenals or thyroid, only the healing from these infections.
After I healed the first time, we took my FIL in for his final 3 months here on earth. I would have done that no matter what my health was like. He took the place of my father that I lost when I was 17. I adored him. It was the best thing I could have ever done, and why not? I was healed after all. But the stress didn't end there, my brother kicked out my Mom and so she packed up and headed my way. Just a couple of days after my FIL's funeral, my Mom arrived. She's very self centered and is a drama queen (I do love her though!! LOL!) and she couldn't understand that she was pushing me too hard to go do things with her. She was used to living in the city and I live in the middle of nowhere.
Anyway, her sister ended up needing her, so she moved to be with her sister, and I crashed with stage 3 adrenal fatigue that brought down my thyroid. I found this out when I finally got in to see what I thought was a thyroid specialist here. She ran tests on many of my hormones and discovered my adrenals were that bad. I thought it was all due to my thyroid, which was swollen enough to really interfere with swallowing, but it was only swollen on the back side, so it couldn't be seen on an ultra sound scan, and my labs were all mid range. Come to find out, I'm one of those that has a thyroid that won't absorb the hormones it needs very well, so I have to have high blood levels (at the upper range) in order for the swelling to even go down so I can swallow food and pills easier and not feel like I have something choking me all the time.
The desiccated thyroid did work for me, but my doc was refusing to raise my dose, even though I still had weight gain in the lower abdomen, and other hypothyroid symptoms (Ugh!), so when she got a bit out of line, I'd had enough. I panicked though when I realized I no longer had a way to get thyroid and adrenal meds! LOL! Then I remembered that I had used NatraBio with seemingly great success last time, so I hoped that it would once again rescue me, although I realized that things were worse, so I may need a higher dose this time until they healed more.
I held my breath and went for it, boy was I surprised when it all worked! I am taking a higher dose than I was, but it makes sense since my adrenals were in a free fall this time, not just overly stressed from being sick for so long.
I would love to get tested to see where it all stands right now, but without help from insurance (and my deductible is just too high), it's not something I can afford right now, so I go by my symptoms. I seem to be healing!! It's a huge relief since I wasn't sure it was something I could control without a doctor's help!
NOTE: I do NOT recommend just firing a thyroid doc and jumping off meds! I was left with no doctor since the one I had wasn't listening to me and was blaming my diet and putting me on more and more restrictive diets instead of even trying a slightly higher dose of meds. The Endo's here only wanted to do surgery on me and wouldn't even run more than the TSH for my thyroid.
Sorry this is so long!
