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10-03-2007, 09:03 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Calgary Alberta
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| | | Thyroid Problems?
Hi everyone, just wondering how many of you have thyroid problems? I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism today after 2 years of wondering what the **** was wrong with me (other than diabetes of course).
My endo put me on sinthyroid today and I was just wondering how long it might take for my body to get back to "normal".
I also wanted to give people a heads up because my family doctor was only doing 1 kind of thyroid test for me (T4 I think) and she never caught it...my endo did the TSH test and stuff and found that I most definetly had a thyroxine definciency. |
10-03-2007, 09:06 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: MN
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| | | what symptoms did you have? |
10-03-2007, 09:13 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Calgary Alberta
Posts: 32
| | | Well i had "girl problems" for one thing...I havent gotten my period in a long time... then i started getting weird food cravings and ive had problems losing weight. I'm not overweight by any means, but I'm a really active person and I eat pretty well and I seemed to be slowly gaining weight.
I noticed my food was digesting really slowly too which kind of effected my blood sugar. I notice when I eat large amounts, 2 hrs later my blood sugar will be fine but 4 or 5 hours after not eating, my sugars will be high...I figured because my metabolism is super slow and taking that long to digest the food. |
10-03-2007, 09:46 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas
Posts: 57
| | | I asked my endo why I had black circles under my eyes one day. He did say it was a sign of thyroid problems. Have been on synthroid ever since he got the test results backs. I have always been a low dose of it. That was seven or eight years ago. |
10-03-2007, 10:06 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Calgary Alberta
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Originally Posted by Jules49  I asked my endo why I had black circles under my eyes one day. He did say it was a sign of thyroid problems. Have been on synthroid ever since he got the test results backs. I have always been a low dose of it. That was seven or eight years ago. | did the circles go away? I have a little bit of those circles too. |
10-04-2007, 04:30 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Medford Massachusetts
Posts: 322
| | I have hypothyroidism as well due to diabetes. In most cases it comes hand in hand according to my endo. Not everyone will have it but most do. It usually takes about 2 to 3 weeks to start to feel back to normal and not be so tired all the time.  |
10-04-2007, 09:37 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: The music wasteland of CT
Posts: 172
| | | I was just recently diagnosed with Hashimoto's Thyroiditis.
My Endo said that once my pump is up and running and everything is stable we'll start looking at how we are going to treat it.
Apparently Hashimoto's is quite common among diabetics.
Mike
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10-05-2007, 10:52 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Buffalo, NY
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| | | I have a growth on mine but my blood readings are fine. My mother had her thyroid removed many years ago so it runs in my family. |
10-06-2007, 01:40 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Widnes
Posts: 84
| | | I was diagnosed in 2000 for underactive thyroid, but had no idea that it can cause dark circles around eyes, mine are awful so if this is the cause is there anything you can do about it?
Julie |
10-06-2007, 02:34 PM
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| | | Does anyone hear get a "froggy" sound to their voice because of Thyroid or the Synthroid ? Hubby takes medicine, but has sounded this way for a few months.
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10-06-2007, 04:58 PM
|  | Senior Member | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Manassas, in the Old Dominion
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| | | After many years of trying I finally got off Synthroid and onto Armour Thyroid, let's see how that works out for me.
In any case, ngueld, it takes about a month to get consistent results from the Synthroid. Remember to be religious about taking it at the same time on an empty stomach--there really isn't ANYTHING that does NOT affect the uptake of the hormone. Heck, I started taking it with distilled water first thing in the AM before my shower, and those were the best results I EVER had on that stuff.
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10-07-2007, 08:01 PM
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| | | I got a question for all of you. I am randomly tired at times of the day and feel anxious a lot. Does this sound like a thyroid problem or depression or stress?
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12-31-2007, 10:53 PM
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| | | Hi,
I changed to Armour thyroid 4 years ago (Synthroid for the 24 years before that). Most physicians don't want to prescribe it, or don't know about it. It's porcine natural hormone extract instead of synthetic. The advantage is the presence of a the T's, not just T4. It keeps me pretty steady. |
01-01-2008, 08:00 AM
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Originally Posted by MinimedPumper07 I got a question for all of you. I am randomly tired at times of the day and feel anxious a lot. Does this sound like a thyroid problem or depression or stress? | Quote:
Originally Posted by dublin Hi,
I changed to Armour thyroid 4 years ago (Synthroid for the 24 years before that). Most physicians don't want to prescribe it, or don't know about it. It's porcine natural hormone extract instead of synthetic. The advantage is the presence of a the T's, not just T4. It keeps me pretty steady. | MinimedPumper07, I have been suffering from "driving anxiety" for about four years now, and it has been the ****edest thing for me to deal with--I haven't told any of my friends that I get "weirded out" on the highway driving sometimes, because they would all tell me to take a flying leap off a cliff, since I used to be the most daring/drive in any weather/any speed type of person they knew, and I was a very safe and educated driver.
NOW, having said all that, since I made the switch to Armour, I've been doing MUCH better with the stupid anxiety **** on the road. Occasionally, it rears its ugly head but not like it used to, and it is at least manageable. Whereas before, it literally took over.
But like dublin said, you won't find too many doctors willing to prescribe Armour.
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01-01-2008, 08:52 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Ohio
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Originally Posted by ngueld Hi everyone, just wondering how many of you have thyroid problems? I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism today after 2 years of wondering what the **** was wrong with me (other than diabetes of course).
My endo put me on sinthyroid today and I was just wondering how long it might take for my body to get back to "normal".
I also wanted to give people a heads up because my family doctor was only doing 1 kind of thyroid test for me (T4 I think) and she never caught it...my endo did the TSH test and stuff and found that I most definetly had a thyroxine definciency. | My family doctor had actually tested me for thyroid problems because I was having extreme problems with fatigue, constipation, etc. He also didn't test the correct levels and said that wasn't what it was. I then started going to a new endo and told him my problems. Turned out it was Hashimoto's Disease. I also had a goiter and will be having another thyroid ultrasound this month. He put me on Levoxyl and everything started clearing up for me in a couple of months. Except for the fatigue, which is an entirely different story since I have Narcolepsy also. I notice that it has been a couple of months since you posted that.....are you feeling any better with the meds now?
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