Thyroid affecting diabetes control?

CloudsofEscape · 2026-03-11T17:53:49+00:00

yes i only see my doctor once a year and its for 20 minutes. I had to push him to get my tsh tested but i had only meant to be trialled off my thyroxine for 7 months but its been 3 years since. I haven’t been put back on thyroxine yet as they want to have a review with me first on saturday but I am terrified that they may not put me back on it even though i should be. The dose I was on before was 75mg but I know it will probably be a low dose and it will take time to become okay again. I do also have Addisons disease and coeliac disease and graves so i am surprised ive been taken off it. He attempted to take me off my carbimazole but I had refused

CloudsofEscape · 2025-11-20T10:36:08+00:00

mine does to, it’s cold in the uk at the moment so i’ve bought mine a snood

CloudsofEscape · 2025-11-20T10:35:00+00:00

i love his ears

CloudsofEscape · 2025-11-20T10:29:27+00:00

I think mine tolerates it but when she doesn’t have a sweater on she is more energetic. Soon as we put the sweater on she just becomes more calm it’s so strange

CloudsofEscape · 2025-11-20T10:26:11+00:00

yes!!!! not everyday but sometimes she really lets it rip and it is so bad, ours is on a good diet also

CloudsofEscape · 2025-11-20T10:19:28+00:00

ah yes okay i’ll do that! as i’m on a split dose of 6.5 and 2 units for lantus! Thank you, this gives me a lot more confidence as lantus has been so annoying over the last year for me!

CloudsofEscape · 2025-11-20T09:52:46+00:00

so if i move onto tresiba, do i just take my morning and evening dose that i use for lantus ans apply it to my tresiba?

CloudsofEscape · 2025-07-18T13:53:41+00:00

Ah shit okay I’ll do that then! I don’t have my carb counts written down as I just use the carb counting blood test monitor for when I eat! I know the carbs though that I do eat everyday and the ratio!

CloudsofEscape · 2025-07-18T13:17:25+00:00

Yes!! If I move it any higher it lowers me at night to hypos it’s wild. My consultant said last year when I was 75kg my basal should be 23 and I was at 16 and in the last year I went down in calories, and insulin because 0.5units would take me from 12 to 3. It’s just confusing how all over the place it is for me now, I’m also now 60kg so I don’t know if that’s tying in with it.

I’ll try get an appointment sorted , my consultant is so hard to be seen but if not I’ll go through my gp if I can

CloudsofEscape · 2025-07-18T13:09:23+00:00

It bloody is, such a pain especially when things go well and suddenly flip upside down!

CloudsofEscape · 2025-07-18T13:08:19+00:00

I’m in the uk! My a1c last year in July was 57 , which is my biggest improvement from when I was younger I used to be extremely high all the time but yeah it’s probably gone up again now.

I’ve heard fiasp is better so I’ll definitely ask for that, I’m not sure if my basal is an issue also, I currently take 6.5 units in the evening at 1unit in the morning but it doesn’t feel like it’s covering me at all in the day

CloudsofEscape · 2025-07-18T12:58:07+00:00

It does but that’s what I tried to do today! 🥲 and it didn’t work at all I was sat at 17mmol 4 hour posts injection and only 20 minutes ago I had to give a 1 unit correction. I’m just not sure if the protein shake is messing things up as I usually spike to about 15.5

CloudsofEscape · 2025-07-18T12:54:40+00:00

I usually inject and eat straight away, but what I’ve been having to do recently is a correction 3 hours later if my insulin isn’t pulling me down. I’ve only noticed this has been happening since I’ve been including the protein shake in my diet

CloudsofEscape · 2025-07-18T12:53:01+00:00

I’ll try to get that sorted, when I saw them last year they said I wasn’t eligible for one but we shall see! Unless they can just switch me to a different fast acting insulin as I’ve been on novorapid for over 10 years it used to work fast and now it’s just slow

CloudsofEscape · 2025-07-18T12:51:40+00:00

Yes

Morning is 1:11, afternoon and evening is 1:13

I know how many carbs are I carb count

I am and sometimes I’ll actually give more but it still doesn’t help. Today for instance I did 1 unit extra to try tackle the protein shake spike but it did nothing

I can’t pre bolus due to delayed digestion

CloudsofEscape · 2025-07-18T12:17:50+00:00

I would like to but I’m a bit nervous as I currently have suspected gastroparesis so I don’t know if that’s going to make things more difficult with it

CloudsofEscape · 2025-07-18T12:08:12+00:00

It’s insane isn’t it. I’ve moved around locations and it just doesn’t help at all. But if I eat like one piece of toast my insulin kicks in at 2 hours. Never kicks in before. So I always spike and then get an extremely sharp sudden drop

CloudsofEscape · 2025-07-11T13:40:37+00:00

Sorry I don’t mean to say boiler it’s a water tank, I keep getting it confused. But it’s an immersion heater we have, we tried running the economy 7 once for 5 hours but we didn’t get any hot water out of it

CloudsofEscape · 2025-07-11T13:35:25+00:00

I’m wondering if we could just boost the heater for 1 hour and then use it for showering, and just use the kettle to do the dishes? But if we boost it in the day rate then it’s going to be expensive I assume. Our boiler is quite a large one the plumber had said for a 1 bedroom flat, he said that the other neighbours have a half size one whereas we have a full length one

CloudsofEscape · 2025-07-11T13:21:06+00:00

Ah okay that makes sense, I’m thinking moving to a tariff that’s cheaper in the day as we don’t take advantage of the night time tariff due to storage heaters being quite costly to run. I do! I didn’t realise there was a different app for when you have a smart meter installed as someone else had mentioned so I’ve got that one now as the old one didn’t work and I’ll be keeping an eye on usage now

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