stevephi01 Member

If you have private insurance, I'd start with them. Some only deal with a panel of Dr's and specialists. Find an endocrinologist convenient to you or one who has been recommended in the specialist fora you use. Contact the specialist and ask for the information required for a referral from your Dr. If your NHS Dr won't…

Adjust your thinking, once where, not maybe up to being there anymore. What you did, may have have at your height of fitness, been have different. Get to the gym, state your ability as lower than your 'expectation' and you'll find there is no embarrassment - you are holding yourself back if you did. Improvements are merely…

Hi, welcome. You have already made a great step to be closer to your once athletic life. Was that being slimmer than you are now or were you more active? My own situation was to take a serious look at my electrolytes, I'm not GI issued but have a 'thyroid issue', one which in time wasn't weight related. It did however…

As a first poster I'd be cautious to respond to you. However if you aren't, check your electrolytes.

I see a few woo's to the last comment, if they were not meant as a total disagreement, my apologies. This is an international forum, what is permissible in one part of the world is not in another, whilst t3 medication is the cure for some, there are many on here who do not have that access and are forced to seek other…

I believe this is case in fact, the initial prescribing Dr hadn't looked at the entire picture - which looking back could have been influenced by my late wife who was once a nurse and previously married to a DR so felt she was 'qualified'. I know she was privy to at least some of my medical records, either by her…

It is done via the Dr's, rather than from the lab (unless we have a private lab draw), mine never gave a printed copy but were happy with a verbal reply to a specific question. Recently (3~4 months) our records have been made available online, not only test results but our visits and other treatments. It was due to this I…

You are most likely correct and I got it wrong, thank you for pointing it out and if the OP were to read my post be more confused - thank you.

I'm curious too but think I found the answer, the asterisk was used but it has been replaced with a green tick icon to denote verified entries. MFP info page: "We have retired the asterisk (*) previously used on the MyFitnessPal website to note food listings created by MyFitnessPal users." Link to the full info page…

fantastic, well done. I went through the same in March, found my electrolytes were very low. I've bounced back to the point the Dr is going to start reducing my levo and if I respond well there is a chance I could get of it altogether.

Oops, this ended up longer than expected. I came to the UK for what was supposed to have been a 5 week holiday / family reunion. My wife had passed away just under year year before the trip. The airline somehow messed up my return flight and I found I couldn't get back to South Africa! So I looked for work, there wasn't…

I was told, 25+ years ago I was hypothyroid and would have to take levothyroxine for the rest of my life. I'm currently fighting that prognosis, have manged to get my BP tabs off my list - one of them caused more trouble than good. It was only thanks to MFP, I was able to determine that my potassium intake was low. I…

When you can't see the wood for the tress (I believe in US the saying is forest for the trees) it is quite normal to wonder what on earth have you done. Hard to maybe appreciate now, but it is the best decision you have made -only correction, if I may, as others have said don't approach it as a diet. To me that implies an…

Welcome to England Joe, will take a bit of getting used to, but you'll settle in soon enough. Although British born, I returned after living elsewhere for 40 years, 12 years ago. I had a problem with some regional accents, but all good now.

I'm losing weight and not going to the gym, however I am getting some 'exercise' by walking to work, using the stairs and some lunchtimes walk up to 2 miles -pretty light stuff. I have an indoor rower at home and have just started back on it again after a 2 month layoff. I'm not looking to that to reduce weight but to help…

I've been trying to work out why on earth such a study was even conducted, my cynical side leans towards money. This morning on British TV there was a news piece which was about childhood obesity - apparently the children here get weighed twice in their school 'lives', so the solution is to now weigh the younger children…

It is in my case, at least regarding losing weight and as I found out made my condition worse, I'll try explain why in my situation. I had to have a huge calorie deficit for any weight loss, I was often not even reaching 1200 calories intake and exercise burning about 800-1000. I did this for about 8 weeks and my world…

Thank you, weather got better as the weekend wore on - had an absolute blast, batteries fully charged.

That went better than expected, it was almost as if the Dr had seen my discussion list. Within seconds he spoke to me about my Thyroid antibodies, my last blood test included the test and it is negative, 9 ku/L - 50 being the positive marker. However he wants to tackle my BP first, I've been prescribed half the dose I have…

I'm not logging daily at the moment, I batch prepare several meals in advance and freeze. I do weigh and record everything which goes into each meal, so do know how much is in each. I don't have a problem snacking or going crazy. Have lost a reasonable amount, still could be lower but for now I'm happy that I've found a…

Hi, welcome and well done for all the weight lost. I'd imagine going gluten free must have been a challenge, it seems to be almost everywhere, well done for navigating your way through the minefield. I hope your workouts and strength training are helping your fibro a bit.

We'll be based near Selkirk - if we go up that way I'll be sure to wave. Thanks I am hoping I'm not going to get too badly dissed during my Dr visit. I mentioned to the nurse who I was seeing regarding the results, her reply was good luck. She meant I'd have to wait a long time for him because he's so good - well lets hope…

If you aren't feeling really bad, I wouldn't cut gluten - but that's just me. I've not tried cutting gluten completely, got close to it when I felt really bad the past couple of months. I'm back eating it again and feeling OK. I've read quite a bit on gluten feeding the antibodies, but decided unless I knew I had the…

I have also read about the Selenium content in Brazil nuts being soil dependant (which could be Selenium poor), however the info was a bit 3rd hand so didn't mention it, your source does confirm that to be the case though. In a way that's why I decided on the tablets - they just so happened to be next to the Potassium so…

Blood taken for testing this morning, wasn't the full test again as I thought but just the ones which were never released for me to see. Not sure if there had been a problem with the first test or it was being held back for querying. Won't have to wait as long for the results, see the Snr Partner on Thursday and try and…

Hi, I hope you are feeling better, I'd also suggest seeing a healthcare professional if you aren't back to normal. There have been times in my past where I missed doses, in my case I didn't notice any difference if it was one day but there was a period when I didn't have the tablets for a fair length of time and the most…

South London, OK Croydon ;)

I don't think there is any vanity in using your nails as a barometer, I do too in so far as their growth - then I know the calcium intake is right. I'm sure there are many 'signs' our bodies are putting out which we don't know how to read. I can just imagine the 'outrage' when asking about protein and one can set an oil…

Thank you @amelialoveshersnacks, the wait time to see the Doctor has been nearly a month. So much has happened in that time and what I originally wanted to discuss at time of making the appointment is totally different from what'll I will be! @Fuzzypeg, I rode down to the BMI hospital over the weekend to see where it was -…

Thanks yes, not posted as I don't have any news. Next week is the second blood test and the Dr visit on Thursday.