Thu, Oct-23-08, 17:26
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Experimenter
Posts: 25,869
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Plan: DDF
Stats: 202/185.4/179
BF:
Progress: 72%
Location: San Diego, CA
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Nancy, you're taking thyroid hormones, right?
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Yes, for 20 years or so.
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and now you think the berberine is effecting the way that medication works for you, is my understanding correct?
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Nope. I think the thyroid hormone is messing up my blood glucose (raising it). I was hoping the berberine would counter that. But I suspect my issue is I'm creating glucose with my liver rather than being insulin resistant. Or I could be insulin resistant too. Just a suspicion and read various things about thyroid and BG that leads me to believe that's what happens.
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Is there a danger with a hyperthroid? You mentioned the term "I think"... Is there a way to monitor the thyroid "to know"...???
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Yes, there are blood tests and I'm getting one tomorrow. Plus I know the symptoms very well and can tell I am hyper. Can it be dangerous? Yes, at extreme levels or over very long periods of time. Right now it's just annoying as all get out. I'm too hot, my appetite is huge, my glucose is high, I'm fidgety, insomnia, pounding heart beat and strangely fatigued.
But I'm probably only very slightly hyper. I have been much more hyper when I first was diagnosed with Graves disease. It was hideous. Super rapid heart beat, hirsutism, personality changes (not for the better), sweating, palpitations, itchy skin, too hot, and so on. I took radioactive iodine to kill my thyroid gland and now I have to take replacement thyroid hormone for the rest of my life.
I'm tweaking my thyroid dose with my doctor's assistance because I suspected my prior dose was too low. But I think this one is too high. I have Goldilocks syndrome, need to find the one that is just right!
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