Having dated someone for 3 years with Hashimoto's and hypothyroidism, I commiserate.
Most of her struggles were with, first, trying to convince her to get checked out, and then getting a doctor to get her off of Synthroid and onto the natural one from pigs. In her case, the former had devastating effects on her, the latter was very effective.
Fortunately, she was eventually able to see a well-regarded endocrinologist in town who actually worked with her on the treatment as opposed to brushing off her insistence that the treatment that every other doctor she had seen had prescribed wasn't working.
After a couple of years of battling, she finally had gotten back to equilibrium in regards to her thyroid, and back in control of the symptoms caused by hypothyroidism.
I only went through it secondhand, and her winding maze of medical malady sounds like a microcosm of the torture you've had to endure just to get, as you said, "a crap treatment".
I'm so sorry to hear about that, and hope for the best in the future.
Most of her struggles were with, first, trying to convince her to get checked out, and then getting a doctor to get her off of Synthroid and onto the natural one from pigs. In her case, the former had devastating effects on her, the latter was very effective.
Fortunately, she was eventually able to see a well-regarded endocrinologist in town who actually worked with her on the treatment as opposed to brushing off her insistence that the treatment that every other doctor she had seen had prescribed wasn't working.
After a couple of years of battling, she finally had gotten back to equilibrium in regards to her thyroid, and back in control of the symptoms caused by hypothyroidism.
I only went through it secondhand, and her winding maze of medical malady sounds like a microcosm of the torture you've had to endure just to get, as you said, "a crap treatment".
I'm so sorry to hear about that, and hope for the best in the future.