Re:OT: treatment

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Dawn wrote:

I'm still waiting for a proper reply to my letter of complaint about not being told I had cancer or that I'm still being treated for it.

May I ask what treatment they're giving you? Apologies if the question is intrusive, but I used to work as a statistician for a pharmaceutical company and I'm insatiably curious about the medications people are taking.

(And congratulations on still being alive and kicking)

Evil Nigel

I had my thyroid removed because the right half had enlarged inwardly and was crushing my windpipe. They thought that it had also paralysed my vocal cord, so removed the left half as well to see. They decided the thyroid wasn't to blame for that. I was told at my post-op check that, in the biopsy, they'd found a tiny benign tumour, and that as removing the thyroid was the cure, nothing else needed to be done. Fine. Each blood test, however, showed my levels were too low, and my dose was increased to its current 200mg. When I complained at my appointment in January that I'm still tired and overweight, agreeing that my dose is high, twice that of my mother's, who also had to have her enlarged thyroid removed, the consultant casually said my dose is high because I had cancer and they need to fool the pituitary gland into thinking my levels are always high enough that my thyroid gland (apparently bits can get left behind) isn't stimulated to produce more, which could then become cancerous.

So, my treatment, apparently, I've discovered after being on it for a year, is 200mg daily of thyroxine. My mother, also without a thyroid, is on 100mg. I'm now going to see if Boots have managed to get my prescription urgently, as I've not got any left. If not, I'm going to get some from my mother. She already has an extra packet that I got for her as a standby when I was having so many prescriptions due to the increase in dose that I was able to get more.

Just thought - is this wicked and illegal? Can I add it to my list of 'not being a good girl' rebellion?

Dawn
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