I can't remember if it was you or someone else there is a Canadian Doctor Who is the senior editor and developer of a website called "Foot education" he's now only doing research and educating other doctors. He's a brilliant Canadian orthopedic surgeon that is specialized in foot and ankle but all the things that put in ankle has also has hip muscles, joints, bones, nerves, facia, and my point his name is Dr Stephen Pinney. Go into that website and send him a message and ask him if he knows of a Canadian Doctor Who can help you with any of this. He's brilliant he wrote a book about the Canadian medical profession. He's a true professional hockey players or something he was my doctor at the Cleveland Clinic.
I will find the test for cortisol and get back to you
One thing that just makes me crazy is when Dr say we're only going to treat the symptoms without really having any idea what they're doing so many different things have the sameP symptoms that's
And I do understand your frustration of having to pay for things out-of-pocket I do too. I'm disabled at this point and have been unable to work in 10 years so yeah I get it. But I pay a lotof money for my health insurance
Let's talk about thyroid and basic. TSH doesn't tell you very much and is deceiving.. there's testing for T3 and T4. There's a reverse T3 and reverse T4 and unless the doctor understands all that and understands how to read it, you could still be in trouble with a low thyroid or a high thyroid, but usually the pain that you're experiencing is low thyroid.. I am on two different thyroid medications one twice a day
Next, I hear you're on estrogen, cream and progesterone, good girl, but I am also on an estrogen patch which I get from Canada UK or New Zealandbecause it's so much cheaper than buying in the US. So my doctor has me on both a patch and estrogen, cream and progesterone.
And they added Topamax 125 MG to start at night and then I tried going up to 50 but I felt better at 25. It helps me sleep and reduces my pain a bit.
I watch a lot of British medical TV shows and they will often have a GP give a referral for a a specialist consult ask your GP if they will refer you so that you can still be in the system without paying extra
Here's another big thing omega-3 I'm always desperately low in that when they do my blood testing so I have to drink fish oil🩷
Do they have Functional Medicine specialist??
Let me go look up the cortisol testing I'll get back to you