My Specialist Is Not So Special

Ok so remember when I said here that my Endocrinologist is/was taking really good care of me? Well let's just say that she is no longer my Endocrinologist. I have decided to take my husband's hard earned money else where. I will be seeing my family doctor from here on out for my thyroid needs. After my last visit with her where she zipped into the room, gave me my lab results (which are still out of whack) and zipped back out of the room before I could even ask questions and told me she didn't want to see me until a couple weeks after baby arrived...in December! That is months away lady and my thyroid is still all screwed up. Midwife did not like this so much, neither did I, but she (midwife) lit the fire under me to contact and get some more answers out of my not so special-specialist. Well it took the special endo over two weeks to get back with me, well I shouldn't say that the whole ordeal of trying to get a straight answer to my question took two weeks and really I still don't have an answer...keep reading. I called with my initial question and the nurse called back two days later with an answer.....just not the answer to my question so you know where that gets you at a doc's office, NO WHERE! So, now I still had no answer and the nurse said she would get back to the doc and then back to me, yeah right. I had to keep calling and calling, playing phone tag and not getting answers...for two weeks!! RIDICULOUS!!! I finally called this morning to complain to the office manager and let them know that I did not find this acceptable at all especially since I am so very pregnant with a thyroid problem! After talking with my family doc, who also goes to our church, this weekend on our church retreat, he is going to take over my thyroid needs and I see him on Thursday. The kicker though comes when I look a little more closely at my results to see that all along she has been telling me that I was HYPOactive (underactive thyroid) when really I have been HYPERactive (overactive thyroid) the whole time......awesome. New found faith in her I tell ya! You would think I would have been paying a little closer attention to my results and I thought I was, but I also trusted my doc, a specialist no less, to be giving me the right info. Now if I was on my game and not having my intelligence sucked dry by this pregnancy and trying to take care of my 2 year old, husband and home, I might have read my labs correctly and realized the error in what she was telling me, but I didn't I just saw "out of range" numbers and went with her diagnosis of underactive not letting the numbers click in my head and tell me the correct story. Oh well.....moving on, literally.