hails
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Hey guys!
Hope you are all well!
Just wondering if anyone's blood sucking, organ eating antibodies have decided that their pancreas is not enough and have had a good go on their thyroid too? Mine has antibodies present and therefore is slowly becoming underactive.
I feel I have a lot of the symptons and told my doctor so at my last review in July, to be told by the other doctor present that as my TSH (thyroid level) or whatever it is is at 5.2 (not hitting the 5.5 which formally diagnosises you as underactive) that I wouldnt be feeling any symptons. Over the past 3 weeks or so these 'symptons' have becoming increasingly more difficult to cope with, ie tiredness, feeling the cold, sore muscles, weight gain and so on. I was doing some research to find that although over here in the UK they class underactive being over 5.5, in USA they class underactive as 4.5 and there is a big war going on trying to reclassify the diagnosis level. I also got very wound up to find many references to the fact you can have symptons even if you are in the 3s and 4s... so the doctor had accused me of making things up when it is apparent that I would be feeling these symptons.
Aswell as my symptons I have really been struggling with my levels which is another sympton of my thyroid giving in, especially as there is no other reason for my rocketing levels. I am having to inject more than I usally do and this has happened out of the blue.
I decided to go directly to my normal GP (after leaving 3 messages for my diabete nurses to get back to me.. which they didnt) and when he saw my thyroid levels were 5.2 and there were antibodies present he seemed shocked I hadnt been put on medication as there is no chance it will ever improve, the same as my pancreas! So he pulled me in for a blood test and I should get the results tomorrow, and hopefully they put me on medication! Im sick of going home at 5 from work and falling asleep for 2 hours!
Sorry to rant on but I was wondering if anyone else had experience of this auto immune disease which is connected to diabetes... i think usually type 1?
All levels I have mentioned are thyroid levels not my sugar levels.
Ahhh deep breath
Hayley x

Hope you are all well!

Just wondering if anyone's blood sucking, organ eating antibodies have decided that their pancreas is not enough and have had a good go on their thyroid too? Mine has antibodies present and therefore is slowly becoming underactive.
I feel I have a lot of the symptons and told my doctor so at my last review in July, to be told by the other doctor present that as my TSH (thyroid level) or whatever it is is at 5.2 (not hitting the 5.5 which formally diagnosises you as underactive) that I wouldnt be feeling any symptons. Over the past 3 weeks or so these 'symptons' have becoming increasingly more difficult to cope with, ie tiredness, feeling the cold, sore muscles, weight gain and so on. I was doing some research to find that although over here in the UK they class underactive being over 5.5, in USA they class underactive as 4.5 and there is a big war going on trying to reclassify the diagnosis level. I also got very wound up to find many references to the fact you can have symptons even if you are in the 3s and 4s... so the doctor had accused me of making things up when it is apparent that I would be feeling these symptons.
Aswell as my symptons I have really been struggling with my levels which is another sympton of my thyroid giving in, especially as there is no other reason for my rocketing levels. I am having to inject more than I usally do and this has happened out of the blue.
I decided to go directly to my normal GP (after leaving 3 messages for my diabete nurses to get back to me.. which they didnt) and when he saw my thyroid levels were 5.2 and there were antibodies present he seemed shocked I hadnt been put on medication as there is no chance it will ever improve, the same as my pancreas! So he pulled me in for a blood test and I should get the results tomorrow, and hopefully they put me on medication! Im sick of going home at 5 from work and falling asleep for 2 hours!
Sorry to rant on but I was wondering if anyone else had experience of this auto immune disease which is connected to diabetes... i think usually type 1?
All levels I have mentioned are thyroid levels not my sugar levels.
Ahhh deep breath

Hayley x
