Odd Duck

[asaspades1]

Hi! I was recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. I had a thyroidectomy when I was around 30. I am 48 now. I control my my diabetes with diet and exercise. I had my blood sugar in normal ranges up until a few days ago when my Dr. lowered my T4 and added 5mcg of T3. My labs showed my T3 was a little low. Seemed like sugars immediately went up. My question is, will this normalize? For the record, my weight is normal, I get plenty of exercise, and I eat a reduced, not extremely low carb diet. Anyone else like me out there?

[shaws Administrator]

I am not medically qualified like most of us on this forum, but I would have thought your blood pressure would normalise when you've been on the dose for a little while.

Your quote 'I get plenty of exercise, ' made me wonder whether low T3:-

Dr. lowered my T4 and added 5mcg of T3. My labs showed my T3 was a little low.

was caused by your exercising - as exercising when hypo can lower T3.

Levothyroxine is T4 only and is an inactive hormone and it converts to the only Active Thyroid hormone - T3. T3 is the energy required in all of our receptor cells.

When you have a blood test for thyroid hormones it has to be at the very earliest, fasting (you can drink water) and allow a gap of 24 hours between your last dose of T4/T3 and take it afterwards. This keeps your TSH as its highest as doctors are apt to reduce dose according to the TSH alone.

Dr should also test B12, Vit D, iron, ferritin and folate if you haven't had these tested.

[Gambit62]

There are a few diabetes support forums on HU - possible that you might get an answer by posting on one of those - though I think it is probably quite a specialised query.

Certainly true that thyroid can impact on processing of sugars.

Have you spoken to your GP about this

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