[gelfling]

Again, Shutter, you've taken time to educate all of us. Thanks Sweetness. I am one of the people who had sleep apnea, (couldn't use the c-pap and had 2 surgeries to correct it), been diagnosed with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue and rheumatoid arthritis and depression. I have 47 of the 58 symptoms of an underactive thyroid, but my labs say otherwise. I was on meds for it before my son was born for abut 7 years. The doc will not prescribe meds for me. Says until my labs say differently, he can't do it. He's not the only one. I've been to 2 endocrinologists and they all shake their heads and say, yeah, you've got all the symptoms, but we won't prescribe. And it's my gut feeling that if they were to give me meds for the thyroid, most of my symptoms of the other stuff would disappear. But hell no...it's much easier for them to say, "take this pill for this and that pill for the other..." Then the issue of sensitivity to medications kicks in and they again shake their heads and say, "maybe it's all in your head"...the sensitivity and symptoms. This really pissed me off when my internist said this...past internist. But they'll prescribe narcotics and pain killers in a heart beat. And I won't take them.

There are so many illness out there that mimic each other, it's hard to decide what's really going on and most docs don't want to deal with it.