[SueAndHerZoo]

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I think I read somewhere that our thyroids can also wreak havoc with our blood sugar levels . . . anyone experience this first hand?

I’ve started to get my anxiety under control but today I noticed that twice after I ate I started getting anxious. Then I wondered if maybe it’s not anxiety-based but sugar spike / crash instead.

I’m going to experiment tomorrow with different foods but has anyone else had issues with their blood sugar levels being more sensitive when your thyroid is out of whack?
Sue

[Ann1960graves]

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Yes!!!! I had a blood test today. I eat then 15 minutes later I am starving again. I begin to sweat and shake more and generally feel horrible. Strange, I had some Carl’s jr onion rings out of desperation about 2 hours ago and I am feeling pretty good. I will report back once the blood tests come back. This is one of my bad symptoms.

[SueAndHerZoo]

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Ann1960graves wrote:

Yes!!!! I had a blood test today. I eat then 15 minutes later I am starving again. I begin to sweat and shake more and generally feel horrible. Strange, I had some Carl’s jr onion rings out of desperation about 2 hours ago and I am feeling pretty good. I will report back once the blood tests come back. This is one of my bad symptoms.

Sorry to hear you’re having issues with it, too, but glad to hear I’m not alone. Mine is more like an hour after I eat, I start to feel the clenching of anxiety in my stomach and then I get light-headed and walk like I may fall over. I just realized that the two times it happened were about an hour after eating carbs.

Sue

[Stymie]

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Sue,

My pcp gave me a tester the last time I went in to see him. He thought I might me hypoglycemic since I was getting very shakey around 2:00 everyday.

I began testing myself and it seems my blood sugar is off in the mornings. Not so much during the day. But I also get anxiety attacks. I think they are correlated. If I have an anxiety attack in the morning as I’m waking up, my blood sugar is higher.

I have yet to talk to my endo about this. I think I’m due to see her at the end of June and I will let you know what I find out.

Maybe you could talk to your pcp about getting a tester and you could actively see what going on when you get a panic attack.?

Diane

[SueAndHerZoo]

#1179563

Stymie wrote:

Sue,

My pcp gave me a tester the last time I went in to see him. He thought I might me hypoglycemic since I was getting very shakey around 2:00 everyday.

I began testing myself and it seems my blood sugar is off in the mornings. Not so much during the day. But I also get anxiety attacks. I think they are correlated. If I have an anxiety attack in the morning as I’m waking up, my blood sugar is higher.

I have yet to talk to my endo about this. I think I’m due to see her at the end of June and I will let you know what I find out.

Maybe you could talk to your pcp about getting a tester and you could actively see what going on when you get a panic attack.?

Diane

Hi Diane…. thanks for sharing.

I, too, have panic attacks, and even though they were well under control for a while there they are now back with a vengeance and they began again when my thyroid came out of remission. What a nice bonus, huh?

I, too, am trying to figure out how much of my panic and anxiety are from nerves, how much is from my thyroid, and how much is from my diet. Not an easy puzzle to figure out when they all set each other off. I used to use a blood sugar meter and check myself several times a day and found I am a reactive hypoglycemic. I just have to be careful to make sure I have fat and protein with my sugar and carbs. But now even that’s not working so great so I was trying to figure out if the thyroid being out of whack was messing with my glycemic index or if I have to cut back on carbs even more.

Never ending challenge, but we’ll get this!
Sue

[MaryI]

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Hi Sue,
I also report having had the sweats and extreme fatigue about an hour after eating. It passes after awhile, but is very uncomfortable and almost debilitating.
Even an apple would do me in. I asked the doc and he just shrugged. Eventually it got better, and in time it happened occasionally, esp after a high carb meal. I also wonder about the blood sugar spiking.
I still get the sweats after eating, and my face gets really red, but am not as tired. I guess that it is a metabolic thing. I hope it gets better for you soon.
I never knew that those 2 small glands could wreak such havoc on our bodies and minds!

[SueAndHerZoo]

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MaryI wrote:

Hi Sue,
I also report having had the sweats and extreme fatigue about an hour after eating. It passes after awhile, but is very uncomfortable and almost debilitating.
Even an apple would do me in. I asked the doc and he just shrugged. Eventually it got better, and in time it happened occasionally, esp after a high carb meal. I also wonder about the blood sugar spiking.
I still get the sweats after eating, and my face gets really red, but am not as tired. I guess that it is a metabolic thing. I hope it gets better for you soon.
I never knew that those 2 small glands could wreak such havoc on our bodies and minds!

Not only do they wreak havoc but they make us start unlearning all the things we thought were good for us. I used to have a half sandwich and bowl of frozen fruit for lunch. I was always starving by the time I got back to the office and was shaky and tired and nervous within an hour. I stopped eating the fruit and that problem has resolved. Geez, what should I eat for dessert. . . a drumstick?!?!?!

I hate when the doctors shrug – or when they say “no, that’s not possibly caused by the Graves.” Wanna make a bet? Get on a forum and read!

Sue

[Boomer]

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Looks like I dodged that symptom. Nyah nyah!

Having always been a metabolising machine I found that I feel much better (in many ways) breaking away from the “three meals a day” thing and eating 5 smaller meals with lots of healthy snacks in between.

I know five “meals” sounds like a lot of extra work but it’s not- I carry some leftovers into the next meal, add something new, and instead of 4-5 things I just have two or three. It’s really quite managable and maybe those who feel that “drop” might benefit from it.

Something else that *seems* to help prevent that drop (could all be in my head- not sure don’t care!) is I try to avoid sugar and use honey as a sweetener if one is needed. As I said i could be in my head but it seems like I don’t feel my sugar drop an hour later from it.

If ya’ll are worried about having too many leftovers ship ’em out to me. The way I’ve been eating a shoe with a little lemon and pepper sounds GREAT right about now.

Stay awesome one and all,

Boomer

[Stymie]

#1179567

http://www.healthintegrated.com/industryinsight/?p=16

Just came cross ths article.

Just some fyi

[Naisly]

#1179568

Diabetes and GD are linked. Anyone with GD should have it tested just to make sure.

http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jtr/2011/439463/

The above is a good explanation between the two.

Also don’t forget about:
Vitamin D
B12
Iron
Adrenals

Edit: Added link

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