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APPENDIX B – JANIE BOWTHORPE BLOG POST EXAMPLE
http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/2010/04/17/10­reasons­thyroid­patients­are­
frustrated­angry/
10 reasons many thyroid patients are still frustrated, angry, and sick
It’s a continuing travesty, and you see it in patient groups.
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uninformed doctor to another…in spite of the wonders of natural desiccated thyroid, the
testimony of changed lives, the education of patients thanks to the STTM website & book,
and a small but growing body of wise doctors who seem to be “getting it”,
So what’s the problem?? It lays with our doctors and the entire medical profession.
1. Heavy­handed control over your medication: You go to pick up your prescription,
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2. Ignorance about adrenal fatigue and treatment: You clearly have an adrenal
problem, and one doctor dismisses its existence, another doctor poo­poos the saliva test,
another doctor tells you cortisol supplementation is dangerous, another doctor thrusts all
his herbal supplements at you, another doctor thinks that 5 or 10 mg cortisol is enough…
and on and on and on.
3. Dismissing the Ferritin test: You want to know what your ferritin is, but the doctor’s
nurse underscores that they’ve already checked your iron levels, so there’s no need for
more testing.
4. Dismissing you: You are wise thanks to reading, researching and living in your
own body, yet your doctor calls you a problema¬tic patient on your charts, dismisses you,
or gets angry.
5. RT3 huh? You have strong suspicions that your Reverse T3 is too high thanks to
adrenal fatigue, low ferritin, undiagnosed gluten issues, or other reasons, yet this doctor
refuses to test you, that doctor says an RT3 excess is rare.
6. Look at me! Look at me! You make an appointment with that great doc who has a
fabulous website/book and who shouts that he uses desiccated thyroid with a big smile…
yet any or all of the above and below occurs with him/her or his “trained” associates.
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