Thyroid Problems

[eyespan]

My sister-in-law is apparently having some thyroid problems, anybody know of a specialist she can go to?

Her husband (my wife's brother), is pretty successful so they are not worried to spend a little more.

Thnx

[lopburi3]

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This comes up first on Google and should be a good choice.

[medicinebox]

My sister-in-law is apparently having some thyroid problems, anybody know of a specialist she can go to?

Her husband (my wife's brother), is pretty successful so they are not worried to spend a little more.

Thnx

I have a very special lady with hyperthroid at present.

She started going to a specialist at a private hospital and started to get a lot better, but said it was too expensive (2000bht) per month, so she went to the government hospital, and started getting worse.

I have told her to go back to the specialist in Bangkok, and I will pay the fees. Too proud to ask for help.

It takes months of medication to cure depending on what condition she has. 8-16 months and a significant chance of recurring.

Other methods are removal of the glands, or radiotherapy. But then she may have to take medication all the time after. Either way she will be able to return to normal.

Is she in bangkok? If so i will try to get the details of the specialist.

[eyespan]

Thanks for trying to help guys...... sob sob

Anyways you are right Mbox. The doctors at the hospital are making things worse.

My Bro-in-law talked to me about the lady's condition and I made a few phonecalls to some Doc friends. It seems that rarely do doctors give radioactive iodine to ladies of child bearing age. At the hospital in Hatyai, she has already recieved it once.

So I told my bro-in-law to try and get a second opinion and he is all for it.

Anyways Medicinebox, can I have the details for the spec please? Most kind.

[strawberry]

Hey Eyespan

I was living in Chiang Mai about 10 years ago. Back in Aussie land I was diagnosed with hyper thyroid. I was given a medicine to tame the thyroid, after a year or so , in Chiang Mai, I got real sick. My wife and land lady wrapped me in a blanket and took me to the big public hospital where they determined that the medication was killing off my white blood cells. Lot of people suffer from thyroid problems in the north so they got good doctors up there. It was determined that the only thing I could do was to accept radio active iodine treatment. Was not so expensive but it did kill off a bit more of my thyroid than necessary. Now I need to take a small amount of thyroxin each day.

My experience was that the best specialists are in the public hospitals.

[eyespan]

Strawberry, what about an op? the doc here in Hatyai recommended that as well which scared the ###### out of lady and hubby. what would they be doing then in such an event?

[strawberry]

Hi Eyespan,

Over the past 12 years since I had my iodine treatment there has possibly been an improvement in treatment of the thyroid and all I can say is what my experience has been. As I understand it other than radio active therapy or operation the thyriod problem cannot be cured. My natural therapists couldn't even detect the problem with their diagnostic methods so I don't have much faith in that form of treatment (for thyroid).

I was treated very well in the CM hospital, they have a great deal of experience there as many people suffer from this due to the lack of iodine in the diet.

An operation depends on the extent of the disease if its too small, as mine was, then that can be dangerous and the doctor should refuse to do it.

I was first diagnose in Aus. in the street talking to a doctor friend ,who also had the disease, asked me if I had had a thyroid function test. Did that the next week and proved to be positive. The doc put me on a medication and at that time was the only medication available. But after a time that medication will stop working and will /can kill you.

Some people get the iodine treatment and never have any problems again but others after a period of about 7 years the thyroid can deteriorate and it might be then necessary to take thyroxin on a daily basis for the rest of ones life. Or if the specialist miscalculates the dosage of iodine one may have to start on a small dosage of thyroxin straight off,as in my case. Very inexpensive costs me about 100baht a year.

Just after I had the treatment in CM I was meeting with some friends and a young guy doing a tour of the world, just finished uni in the USA where his thesis was the history of mental illness. Tells me in his research he discovered that years ago, before doctors knew about the problems caused by the thyroid about 80% of patients in mental hospitals were thyroid cases.

The anxiety and anger attacts can be something else especially when all around you don't understand the problem. Its pretty difficult for men in that for every 8 women who get it only 1 man. The difficulty here is that the doctors don't suspect it.

To get back to you question about an op. I couldn't give an opinion on this but just off the top of my head I'd suggest several opinions from several different specialists and if the opinion was to cut I'd want real good cutter.

Good luck to your sister inlaw

Regards Joe

PS my Doc back in Aus committed suicide several years later. One of the problems is that after one gets the thyroid under control one doesn't stop acting like a <deleted> straight away. I'm referring to myself here

[eyespan]

Thanks Joe, your help is sincerely appreciated, hope you would never have a problem again with your thyroid control.

Gonna take your advice and advice the couple to seek some more opinions.

[Pepe']

Check on the web for Basal temperature test for thyroid evaluation.

In many ways it's superior to lab work.

I have seevery poor results with radoactive iodine treatment.

Patients will have to take Synthroid or Thyroxin anyway even after treatment.

A better form is Armour Thyroid which is a natural, more gentle prescription that some of the more sophisticated endocenologists are using here in San Diego.

Also consider the introduction of sea vegetables into the diet/ sea weed or kelp tablets. monotor monthly the first six months.

The is debate about TSH or free T4 being the most accurate evaluation.

I always reccomend a COMPLETE thyroid panel (even though its more expensive) to start until things are sorted out.

Good Health