Hypothyroid

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BUT, I am also mildly diabetic. We are now trying to understand why, and if the diabetes and thyroid problem are linked. I posted about this on another thread
http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showthread.php?t=14941

My advice to you is to use that website to find a good thyroid doc, and get yourself appropriate therapy. I am 99.9% sure you are still undercorrected.

Hypothyroidism and diabetes are often linked, usually to the weight gain associated with Hypothyroidism (Type II Diabetes). Get the weight off and the diabetes disappears, put weight back on and the sugar levels go up again. I don't have Hypothyroidism but my husband has. I'm borderline Hyperthyroid (it runs in my family). Not to be alarmist but Thyroid problems can damage your heart if it is not controlled. This is what caused my husband's heart-attack three years ago. He didn't know he had an underactive thyroid. We've since learned that it's hereditary in his family. Both his son and daughter, in their twenties, have it too.

I know your health system is different to ours in the UK but I'd kick up a fuss until you get referred to an Endocrinologist at your hospital. Don't be fobbed off by doctors who tell you to go on a diet. This is what happened to my husband. Non of the idiots had the sense to do a simple blood test. If they had, the Hypothyroidism would have been picked up and he probably would not have had a major heart attack that nearly killed him.

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Heart effects....

Yes, when my thyroid began to go out, I was 24 years old. Had fantastically low cholesterol levels and then they skyrocketed up to about 250 and stayed there despite manic cycling, healthy eating, weight loss, etc. until FINALLY (now I'm 32) this year got a doctor to medicate me to the low end of the TSH range (.5)...

"Magically," my cholesterol fell more than 50 points. The way my naturopathic doctor explains it is that the thyroid helps regulate metabolism, which is your body's furnace, and if it's not burning hot enough, then it won't burn up all the coal, leaving the cholesterol unburned and sticking to your arteries.

I just hope I can reverse the plaque that's prolly in my arteries from having eight years of high cholesterol.

Get a blood test! Get a new doctor! Cross that border if you have to ... good luck!