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In tears last night

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hyper-Suze

hyper-Suze

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Hey ho everyone, hope ya'll having a good weekend...

So yesterday I was in tears most of the night as I am down in the dumps. Not particularly with diabetes but in the past 2 months, I have probably put on 2 stone and I have no idea why. I have not been doing any less exercise as normal nor have I eaten more than I usually do...why is this happening?

I think I am noticing this more with the heat we've been having as I'm getting uncomfortable and it is more annoying as hardly any clothes are fitting me and certainly not the clothes in my summer wardrobe!

I am wondering if I have an underactive thyroid? Does anyone else have this with diabetes, is it more common in us and what age does it usually affect people(I am 30)?

Also, does anyone know what period the symptoms would normally take to show up? (weight gain in the space of weeks, months, years?)

Many thanks in advance....from a depressed and stressed Suze xx :(
 
Hi, I don't have D but do currently have an underactive thyroid. My symptoms were excessive tiredness and lethargy, weight gain, muscle aches and cramps in legs, carpel tunnel in wrists, swollen neck (goitre) and pronounced PMT symptoms. Skin and hair dry as well. I had let mine get severley underactive hence my many symptoms and taking an age to get back to normal ! If you suspect then just request a blood test, better caught early, I ended up having 5 months off work, only been back a month, wish I was checked and treated sooner :(
 
Suze ((((((((hugs)))))sorry to hear your feeling ot 100% I have found this link for you about diabetes and under active thyriod http://www.diabetesandrelatedhealthissues.com/thyroidproblems.html,just carry on reading down the page.Im sure theres some members of the forum whom suffer from UAT so they will be more use to you x if you go and see your doc im sure they will be some kind of blood test they can carry out.
 
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Just to add I was very weepy as well, doc thought I was depressed and I left with anti-depressants but bloods confirmed it was the thyroid problems. I am 34, it's more common in women, and more common in older age. Another auto immune disease. Worth getting checked, tc and hope you feel better soon x
 
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Thanks ladies, the link is very helpful in explaining the differences and the links with diabetes.

Thanks Hanmillmum, I am extremely down, which is so unlike me, I am very much a person who can be knocked down and get right back up and roll with the problem. This, I can't! Not sure if it is like a depression or a low-self esteem issue, but I guess both are closely connected I guess.

You mentioned that it has taken you a fair few months to get back to normal, have you found the weight has been easier to get rid/control of with the medication now working?

I am always tired, so tired that I just figured my levels must be running high as tiredness is similar to the pre-diagnosis of diabetes. I am coming in from work, having an hours nap and if I have a nap after dinner, it can be for the whole night, get up at 10ish and back to bed by 11pm.

I also feel like my whole body is heavy, not just the weight but as if I am filled with lead. I find it difficult to get the energy and that my body is so weak to do anything.

I haven't really noticed the goitre or the dry skin, apart from on my feet. I do feel the cold a whole lot more, which in this nice weather spell is unusual.

I think I'll have a trip to the doctors tomorrow as the link I just read mentioned about fertility problems, not good as we're TTC.

It is driving me batty!!
 
I feel for you and send a virtual hug! My diabetes was diagnosed when I went to the doctor for something entirely unrelated and she also picked up that I had an underactive thyroid. I wasn't aware of any symptoms and put my tiredness down to the fact that I am busy and always running around. However I had also put on weight but just put that down to the fact that I am greedy! Since being on the tablets (a low dose of 25mcg), I do have more energy and have also lost some weight (but have a long way to go). I do hope you start to feel better soon.
 
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Think mine had been building up for several months. Yes felt the cold easily, freezing, always nithered ! remember in the colder months wearing layers and heating on all the time, rest of the family had stripped off :D
Put on at least 1 1/2 stones, stopped weighing self after while too depressing, :( wasn't eating much but doing very little as no energy. As soon as started on thyroxine lost half stone, the rest is just trickling off very gradually, probably as my appetite is increasing but still not back to my usual active self. Still underactive as well so I am hopeful it will eventually rectify itself once I am back to normal.
I remember saying to GP I feel like lead, arms and legs were so heavy and such an effort to move!
 
Thanks again, I hope it is that, at least that way it can be treated and managed and I have a reason for this dramatic weight gain. Unless it could be something else, not sure what though!:confused:

At least if it is this, you have both given me hope that some of the weight will come off. I usually try to buy nice trousers for work from R.Island, Next etc and I am now having to buy cheap trousers every few weeks(not so cheap in the long run...) in the next size up, I am at pains to pay for the nicer ones if I hope to not stay in them for that long! Argh. I now have work trousers in size 10, 12, 14, 16 & just brought 18 in gym trousers.

Thing is with this, I used to not take my insulin to lose weight the naughty way and I have in the past 2years, worked on my control to not do this but I am sooooo tempted to if I am not used to being this size and as the only way I know to successfully lose weight(but may go into DKA as a consequence..) Hope I don't relapse back to the naughty place.
 
I'm type 1 and i take a tablet each day because my doctors diagnosed it before it got bad so if i dont take my tablet it will put on weight. aimee xxxx
 
Lots of answers her for you already 🙂
I have an underactive thyroid too. My symptoms were- feeling cold all the time, feeling tired during the day, needing naps, putting on weight. I put it all down to stress with Carol&Diabetes (It was 1 year after her diagnosis). It was only due to my cousin asking me if I had the condition (I found it a very odd question until I found out that my mum, her sister and my cousin all have it) that I first googled it and then went to GP. He was quite confident I did NOT have it, but he was wrong. I'm on 100mcg Levothyroxine. As to the weight gain, well I lost a little, but I've now put it all back on😱
 
Hi suze.

I've been feeling very tired and everything is a huge effort for some time now. I ahven't put any weight on and don't feel the cold, but sounds like you might well have underactive thyroid.

I think mine is just early onset old age ! :D

There ought to be a way of getting a complete set of blood tests done every so often just to screen for things like this. Once diagnosed, it's a case of blame any symptoms on the diabetes and put up with it.

Hope you manage to get a proper diagnosis and don't start abusing the insulin or you'll be in big trouble from all of us !! 😎

Rob
 
Hi Suze, Certainly fits the symptoms of under-active thyroid. Get your doc to do a test for you. I have very similar symptoms to you but am borderline under-active so on no treatment because my doctor isn't sure if that is the cause of the problem. Just wanted to say that, although the symptoms fit an under-active thyroid, they also sound like physical symptoms of depression / anxiety too (which I have - which explains the docs confusion!!)
 
I'm not sure if there's a time scale to it all, I was picked up as very border line underactive thyroid 25 years ago when I was having my oldest daughter, wasn't diabetic then.. But I've been monitored ever since...

And sometimes it's borderline and sometimes it just under, they did try me on thyroxine several years back, but I couldn't get on with it...

The only symptom I've ever displayed is I do feel the cold, and one time my doctor swore blind I should be asleep with the reading I had!

But it does sound as though you need to speak to you doc and ask it to be checked out..
 
can't offer much advice. Apprently an underactive thyroid is an auto immune thing, and you can have it with diabetes. If you are worried go and see your doctor and tell him/her of your concerns and see what advice is given.

Someone I work with has thyroid problems (she is always tierd and puts weight on easily) and her doctor checks her on a regular basis to see if she has developed diabetes.
 
Right, finally got throught to the doctors, got an appointment at 11.40am.

Does anyone know if diabetics are regularly checked for this condition as I had a blood test for diabetic check up not so long ago and I don't want to be seen as a time waster if they may have checked it as standard only 6 weeks ago!

God, I hope the doctor doesn't just say I'm getting fat...what a confidence knock to start the week that would be!!!

Many thanks for everyones messages by the way!!! Had another teary outburst yesterday afternoon, this is not like me at all! 😱
 
Hi Suze, I hope the appointment goes well and you can get to the bottom of things. Don't worry about asking about the test, I think it is highly unlikely to have been tested for at your recent check up as they would only do the test if you were presenting with symptoms. By the same token, it may be something that has only recently started affecting you - it has to begin at some point! Hope it turns out to be something easily treated 🙂
 
Hi Suze how did things go at the appointment, hope all is ok x
 
I always assumed that they did it routinely..

But from what I gather what other diabetics it's verries from one area to the next!

And thinking about it, I know when both Les and I have a bloods done they take the same amount from both of us, I am not sure whether they test his thyroid function.. As they've never said!

Mine has always been checked as I was borderline before I became diabetic, and the only reason I know what my results are (classed as sub-clinical) as my test results are always included in my consultants letter to my GP!

But don't worry though if they do include it as routine in your bloods, by the sound of it you do need to speak to your GP concerning how you feel etc, and find out or discuss what may be the underlying problem..
 
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Hi Suze how did things go at the appointment, hope all is ok x
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Thanks Ellie, Steff and Alan,

Went to doc, luckily it was the doc who sees me for my medication review and he knows my history.

I have got a blood test to check my thyroid tomorrow morning as well as checking for anemia due to the tiredness as a back up. I won't know the results, prob till monday.

He asked about my portion size and do I 'comfort eat' and if I am eating more in general. I can catergorically say no to those and infact since DAFNE, I'm eating less and now know how to treat a hypo properly without overeating. He thinks if it isn't thyroid, it could possibly just be my increase in insulin requirements...:confused:

Is it wrong that I actually hope its the thyroid as at least then I have an answer and a reason and treatment!!
 
Of course not, that seems perfectly reasonable, I would rather have a diagnosis and treatment than be left confused. Hope you get the results back soon x
 
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