Aha, you find my story interesting huh? Gee I didn't even tell ya too much!

Rose,I nagged different doctors for several years about PROPER thyroid testing! Doc #1,you don't need that,you're too active to have thyroid issues. Doc #2,well those tests are too expensive,instead I'll order a worthless Lyme test & ANA to check for Lupus. Doc #3,I'll order a TSH test (but completely ignore my request for Free3 and Free4 cause I have no idea what you're talking about!) All this after I stress my mother has thyroid disease. All this after I plainly exhibit an overweight,listless,depressed,balding persona.

Consider this,I have a pantry full of vits/herbals. I'll drag out the milk thistle!

Aussie gal (ya didn't really expect me to recall 3 names did ya?), my spider was rather large,too bad I killed it. I could go into spider history with my story if I'd just kept the darn thing in a baggie! Live and learn. Want to hear the rest of the story? Last year the bite puffed up! Yeah,full of fluid! Doc #1,it's a rare form of maligant cancer,need a biopsy ASAP. Doc #2,let's culture this fluid (not for mycoplasma though,we don't know anything about that),we need to schedule a biospy ASAP.

I gave up on doctor's after that.

Cheers everyone! I'm gonna take my B12 now!
Buttons

Buttons,

I was afraid it was something like that. Aaaargh!

rose

Buttons I empathise with you .... maybe not in the precise medical problems we both have, but in the type of service, lack of service we have received from the medical profession.

Yes tiz a shame you do not still have that spider, or at least a photograph of it for identification purposes. However after all this time your real issue with it was / is the type of poison or microbes/nasties it inflicted on your body. Somehow I do not think a look see under the microscope of the fluid would be such a bad idea............... however that is your choice.

I just don't know where to find a doc who wll listen to you.... especially when you are not (tiz me spoken of here) a privately paying patient.

Is it any wonder more and more persons are turning to self diagnosis and medication?

Unfortunately, that kind of treatment (and worse!!) has become common in this country.

rose

Clare, happens that I am private pay now,I cancelled my worthless insurance!The bite is no longer full of fluid,that was last year. Now it just looks like a black speck.Biopsies are expensive,and 2 very different "maybes" were a tad weird.

This is not my thread so will keep to the topic.

Just had a tumor removed from my dog yesterday & waiting for the biopsy. Now my stress is over the top! I'm doubling my B12 today!Hopefully my dog will get better care than I did these past 9 yrs!

Did I mention I actually mail bottles of B12 to an alcoholic in my life? When she got out of detox she was so bad she was using a walker,stayed with us for a week before going to rehab,during that week I pumped her full of B12 & other vits,plus regular healthy meals. She was walking before the week was out!

A friend was taking Neurotin,her kidney's began to fail. I also gave her some B12 (told her to check with her doc,she's elderly). She was taken off the drug & still uses B12 faithfully.

Maybe we should be called the B12'ers club or something?

Later,Buttons

Years ago, on one of the braintalk boards a few of us referred to ourselves as The B Team.

rose

I figured it was probably time for a new thread???

I am going to try and start one about SUB ACUTE which I know very little about and seek help with understanding.

Maybe see you all there.

Cheer's

Hi everyone

I split this thread for you and moved the last 10 posts re homocystine to the new thread that towie started on that subject

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/sh...ad.php?t=29237