Where did you get the bloodwork done? How much did it cost?
I'm looking at getting bloodwork done (live in UK) but not sure who to approach. GP is typically useless and see's the service as reactive to a medical complaint only rather then being used to ensure a 'better than well' health state. Obviously long term positive health isnt a NHS priority...
I don't know how it works in the UK, and this doesn't really answer your question but sometimes when dealing with somewhat difficult doctors I've learned to lie a little.
So if you want some thyroid tests done, and your doctor sort of pauses and says it's not necessary, just say you've been feeling a little rundown and thyroid diseases run in your family, so you want to check it out to be safe. Or high lipids, so you want a VAP test. Or diabetes, so you want glycated hemoglobin, etc. Depending on the doctor, I have even handed written out tests for him/her to write scripts for, as I've also learned (at least from my old family doc), that half the time she didn't give certain obscure tests because she didn't really know what the tests were, or how to read the results.
Although of course if you do this for lots of tests, your doctor will think you have one sickly family there... but anyway, it can be useful sometimes when doctors act like blood tests come out of their own pocket.
Edited by nameless, 29 July 2009 - 12:08 AM.