Comments on: Thysurance Can Kiss My Ass

By: dearthyroid

dearthyroid — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:56:31 +0000

Amy, WELL PUT!!! Robyn, you too! Everything you all have said is so damn true! They’re not out for the best interest of the patient! Healthcare is not a system of health, but a system of oppression and disease!! They need us to be sick!

By: amy

amy — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:42:04 +0000

I have to say that the title of this letter and the pin-up picture totally rock!
I just started taking generic cytomel and I seem fine so far. It has been a month. If insurance is really here to help us why do they give us so much poop? I do not have it but I am sorry for all the crap they give people! Seriously!

By: Robyn

Robyn — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:38:51 +0000

SUCKS! I hate bureaucracy in all it’s many ugly forms. Keep fighting, only the squeaky wheel has a shot in Hell of getting any grease.

By: Cyndi Woodruff

Cyndi Woodruff — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:05:18 +0000

Sharen,

I feel your pain! When I was finally diagnosed, my TSH levels were normal!! It was my T3 levels that were screwed up!! Took over a year (and 60lbs) to figure that out, as I went from doctor to doctor.
I currently take 150mcg Levoxyl and 10mcgs of Cytomel. The cytomel, I take twice daily.
My husband is retired Air Force, so we have medical insurance through the government. (It was CHAMPUS—now TriCare) I was just notified by my pharmacist that TriCare will no longer pay for my brand name Cytomel and will only cover generic. GREAT!
So, I’m now taking the generic….has been almost a week. I all ready had a lab appointment for this coming Monday…..so we’ll see.
I feel your pain….your story sounds so much like mine. I hope that you win the current struggle.

By: HD inOregon

HD inOregon — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:36:08 +0000

Arrrgh, more IISS…. Insurance Induced Stress Syndrome. Who the heck is in charge here, some minimum-pay clerk sitting in front of a computer screen, or a qualified medical doctor?

I hope you can get help soon.
HD in Oregon

By: Lolly

Lolly — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:34:21 +0000

Sharen,

I really hear you on this, especially about T3 (cytomel) replacement, some us are not good converters and FT4 might be in a reasonably good place but FT3 bottomed out, I have been fighting for 2 years plus to get someone to listen now we are experimenting with alternating dose of levo next blood test which I had today will tell, and what a thyiasco that was too, will say more in a thyrant this week.

As for the weight nothing you can do until you get to a good place level wise with thyroid,You may also have fluid retention. Have you had ferritin an vit D checked, or have you tried selenium to help with FT3 conversion?

I hope someone will listen to you including your insurance company.It’s not just insurance we have to fight although being in the UK I don;t have that problem my biggest one is the Doctors and the NHS. Still we live to fight yet another day.