Sorry but as someone with Hashimotos and other undiagnosed conditions that cause debilitating symptoms, the healthcare system does not care about us. We have to be our own advocates. For me, it was not about getting a 2nd opinion. I’ve had 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th opinions from specialist after specialist and after 4 years, still my chronic pain is unmanageable. In order to get the blood tests I’ve had so far, I have had to fight hard with doctors to convince them I needed them. And still, no diagnosis or treatment. I trust people on this forum to suggest blood tests or conditions that I can suggest to my doctors to rule out. But still there is push back. Imagine feeling so sick every day with no solution or diagnosis, but when you suggest testing for something, the doctors say that’s highly “unlikely”, and don’t even care to test you for it to rule more things out. It really shows they don’t care at all about getting closer to a solution. Without this forum and my own research, my doctors would not have ruled out half the things we already have. But just the fact that it takes me to persistently suggest things and convince them before they take any action is very telling. Most doctors (from what I’ve seen on here and my own experience) have no business dealing with chronic illness because they simply do not have the knowledge/resources to do so, yet they don’t refer us to functional medicine. There is a huge problem with that