Hi everyone.I'm very new to all this!

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arethusa

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Hi everyone.

I'm 50 and live in East Sussex.

I went to my doctor a few months back complaining of hair loss,extreme fatigue and weight gain.
All things I really hadn't suffered from before.
My doctor said 'Sounds like your thyroid'.
I had a few blood tests and all came back normal except for an exceptionally high cholesterol result,
(Which I have addressed,and it has gone from 7.4 to 6.2)
But also a blood glucose level of 6.4 mmol/L.
He said to watch that result or I could become diabetic.

I have no idea what it means and have joined this fine website to find out.

Arethusa.
 
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Welcome to the forum Arethusa, Has your doctor scheduled any more tests for you to double check?
Your cholesterol level is quite high.Please have a good read round the forum and if you need to ask questions just ask,there's usually someone with an answer.
 
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arethusa

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Hi Sugarless Sue.

Thanks for the welcome.

What does 6.4 mean though...Is it type 1,2...?

My doctor just told me to 'watch that result', and didn't say anything about any more tests...
My doctor is rather old and very near retirement and I was not happy with the way he was with folk,so I changed to a younger lady doctor,and she has just gone on maternity leave...
So I must find another.

Could you tell me what 6.4 means to you?

Thanks.
 
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hya and welcome to the forum :D keep asking the questions and have a good look around
 
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Hi Arethusa

welcome to our site.

A result of 6.4 is high end of normal and doesn't indicate that you are diabetic by itself.
It also depends on wether the test was fasting or if you had something to eat or drink in the few hours before it.
So saying there is no reason why this site should not benefit you even if you are not diabetic>
 
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What you really need is a Full Lipid Panel which gives you a breakdown of the different types of cholesterol. The standard result with Type 2 is low HDL, high LDL and sky high triglycerides, all of which can be improved by lowering your blood sugar, which normally means reducing your carbs.

Ideally your new doctor should look further into your thyroid, and preferably give you an actual *number*, many doctors will not treat hypothyroid until you are almost comatose whereas our local crew are very proactive. I know people who have had to physically move to get TSH of 5 or even 10 treated, which has greatly improved diabetes, depression and other conditions.

Type 2 is considered to be a progressive disease and the best way to ensure it doesn't progress is to treat yourself as if you are already diabetic *before* you get diagnosed

http://loraldiabetes.blogspot.com/2006/10/d-day.html

is my favourite newbie site, then go look through the Stickies and Success Stories threads for more
 
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arethusa

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Thank you Trinkwasser.

I am going to have to print out this,and either memorise it,or take it to my new doctor...

I don't feel this will go down too well but...

I didn't realise there may be a link to my supposeded thyroid problem,my high cholesterol ,and my impending diabetes...

I sure have a lot to learn

Thank you.

Arethusa.
 
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Hi Arethusa and welcome,

I'm a newbie here myself, but I've just been diagnosed hypothyroid after a partial thyroidectomy. For 10 years my doc's been saying that my thyroid reading was "borderline, but not enough to do anything about it, we'll do another blood test in 3 months". In a way, it's a relief to now be diagnosed and get something done about it.

This may be worth taking a look at. http://www.ultrawellness.com/blog/hypothyroidism It might give you a little more info on the thyroid side. Just because your blood result didn't show up any hypothyroidism, doesn't mean that there aren't other tests which would. I wish I'd know about this years ago, I would have insisted that my doc do some more tests, or referred me to someone who has a clue about being a doctor! It grates on me just a little that MAYBE if the thyroid could have been detected earlier, MAYBE I wouldn't have had to shovel tablets down me for high cholesterol, high triglycerides and now diabetes etc.

I would keep on at the docs until you get your thyroid either ruled out of the equation for definite, or get it diagnosed and treated.

Best of luck
 
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Scoob57 said:
I would keep on at the docs until you get your thyroid either ruled out of the equation for definite, or get it diagnosed and treated.

Best of luck
Click to expand...

Annoying as hell, isn't it? A friend had a heart attack before she managed to get her hypothyroid treated, and she also discovered she had failed a Glucose Tolerance Test in childhood and no=one had bothered to tell her (her parents were told to give her a low-carb diet but without being told why). Some doctors are so convinced there's nothing that can be done that they don't bother to do anything. We're here to prove them wrong!

If you want to check out some of the background, look up Gerald Reaven and Metabolic Syndrome
 
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