{"id":120414,"date":"2009-12-31T13:40:45","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T18:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/type-1-diabetes\/47132-thyroid-problems-a-breakthrough.html"},"modified":"2009-12-31T13:40:45","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T18:40:45","slug":"thyroid-problems-a-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/120414","title":{"rendered":"Thyroid problems?? A breakthrough??"},"content":{"rendered":"
I haven’t been on the forum for a looong time, but I had posted a thread about an embarrassing question awhile back. I was having trouble when I had the urge to go to the bathroom (#2). Sometimes I would feel light-headed and would get pale and feel like I was going to pass out. Other times I would feel nauseous, like I was going to throw up. My doctor kept telling me to treat it like a low blood sugar, but I every time I would test, my sugars were in the normal range. As soon as I would go to the bathroom, everything would return to normal in about 10-15 minutes. This has been happening now for almost 3 years!! About 6 months ago my blood test showed that my thyroid was off. The doctor said it was low. I didn’t think I had been experiencing any symptoms associated with low thyroid, the only unusual thing has been the bizarre bathroom problem. Well, the doctor listed a bunch of symptoms, including intolerance to cold and dry skin. Since it’s in the middle of winter here in Indiana, I thought my excessive dry scalp was due to the weather. And I’m ALWAYS cold, so I thought it was a personality thing…the doctor said it may be a thyroid thing. He suggested waiting until my next appointment three months later to see if my next blood test showed the same results. I just had my appointment on the 29th, and the results still showed low thyroid, so he prescribed Synthroid. He also asked if I’ve been tired…well, I sleep a lot, especially if my blood sugar is high (300 or so). I thought I was just tired because I haven’t been exercising like I should. I looked up some information about low thyroid and it mentioned decreased peristalsis (contraction of muscles that force food through the digestive tract). I think this weird pooping problem could be caused by slow movement of food through my system due to low thyroid!! I know there’s some type of vagus nerve thing going on, but I think I finally have some sort of explanation of why I have been feeling like passing out when I have to use the restroom. I also read that most people with a thyroid problem may never experience any symptoms at all. The only reason they know they have a problem is due to abnormal blood tests.
\n Has anyone experienced anything similar to what I have been going through for the past three years? I’ve read a little bit of info about Synthroid, but is there anything I should be aware of? It mentioned that it could effect blood sugar, but didn’t specify whether it may raise or lower it.
\n I was feeling a little down in the dumps about having to be reliant on this new medication, but I am also hoping that it will solve this embarrassing bathroom problem I’ve been having. I’ve only been taking the medication for a couple days, so I guess I’ll keep you posted about any improvements.:o<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I haven’t been on the forum for a looong time, but I had posted a thread about an embarrassing question awhile back. I was having trouble when I had the urge to go to the bathroom (#2). Sometimes I would feel light-headed and would get pale and feel like I was going to pass out. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}