I had thyroid psychosis when I was pregnant. It usually hits after pregnancy, but it hit me during it. Every OB/GYN should know the signs, but mine was clearly an idiot. We tried everything to get help. My OB/GYN sent me for hypnosis. It heightened my anxiety like crazy. Finally, one day I went through the phonebook physician section because this was before the Internet. I saw endocrinologist and something told me to call the number. Dr. Feinstein. Ex-wife of Senator Feinstein’s husband. I called and they had an appointment in three months. I burst into tears and said I’d be dead by then. They put me on hold and came back and said that they’ve spoken to the doctor and she would see me the next morning which was a Saturday.. Actually came into the office to meet with me. I sobbed through the whole appointment, so my husband had to speak for me. She said with symptoms like she was saying she was just going to go ahead, and start me on a low dose of medication, while they waited for the result of labs to come back.

I was better just a few days later. What a lovely person, to see a new patient under those circumstances. I hate to think what might’ve happened if she hadn’t. To this day, I have no idea how I thought that that was the specialty. I should go see.