WH360 ALWAYS advises you work with your Primary Healthcare Practitioner or GP
Take your results (Symptom Checkers/Tests) with you and ask for help
If you're on thyroid medication in the UK but still suffer thyroid disease-like symptoms you
have the right to an endocrinologist referral under NHS guidelines*
Have an open an honest discussion about your symptoms and what you need
Be CLEAR, FIRM and RESPECTFUL
If you're unhappy with the outcome it's crucial to get a 2nd opinion from another doctor or possibly a different medical practice
If you're still unsuccessful and go to Step 3

Collect any Symptom Checker results and previous test results
Summarise the results so they're easy to read and show a timeline
For the GMC's link on 'What to Expect from Your Doctor'

Discuss Your Symptoms and Get Help

You may have reached this page because you're at the end of your tether. You feel ill but can't seem to get the help you need.

Follow the steps below systematically. If you don't feel heard you may need to see a different Practitioner or GP and start again.
Take courage - it IS POSSIBLE to find an approach that works and people who'll help but you may need to push hard. We speak from experience.

Remember - this is YOUR health and you are worth it! Bear in mind you may have several different things going on that are linked.
It can take some time to unravel what's really going on and it may take some time to address things.

3 - Find a Practitioner

2 - Seek Medical Support

1 - Build Your Health Profile

To get the support you need you may choose to work with a Health Practitioner who can

Assess all your symptoms - not just your thyroid
Provide access to tests and interpretation of test results
Provide treatment protocols to address your condition(s)
May be a registered doctor and therefore able to prescribe medication
If unable to prescribe, are often aligned with doctors who can
WH360 provides a list of Practitioners via the Institute for Functional Medicine

Health Practitioners

* Advice to doctors - NHS Map of Medicine. To see this click on the 'Consider Referral to Endocrinlogist' button on the following NHS

webpage http://healthguides.mapofmedicine.com/choices/map/thyroid_disorders6.html

"Thyroid Replacement Therapy." Wiersinga WM., Horm Res. 2001;56 Suppl 1:74-81.

"Thyroxine-triiodothyronine combination therapy versus thyroxine monotherapy for clinical hypothyroidism: meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials."
Grozinsky-Glasberg S; Fraser A; Nahshoni E; Weizman A; Leibovici L. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2006 Jul;91(7): 2592