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Thyroid

I was diagnosed with diabetes three and a half years ago. For the last two years or so, my hands and feet get really cold. Not just in the winter, even in warm weather they will feel cold. Could this have anything to do with my diabetes?

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Does diabetes or insulin have anything to do with body temperature? Sometimes for no reason I get really hot or really cold. I am a 32 year old female who has had type 1 diabetes for 20 years.

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My daughter has had Type 1 diabetes since the age of 10 months. At the age of 12 her doctor found high levels of thyroid antibodies. If low dose L-thyroxine treatment is begun early with the detection of high levels of thyroid antibodies, how great is the likelihood of halting the autoimmune process?

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My 12 year old daughter was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes seven months ago, and her blood sugars were fairly well under control with the insulin, but she is not gaining weight like she should be despite eating six times a day. They have tested her thyroid and the test was abnormal. What should I do?

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My son was recently diagnosed with hypothyroidism. With all the bad press about Synthroid, are there alternative medications?

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Based on my son’s latest thyroid panel, is he hypothyroid or is he in the so-called gray area? Are his headaches and fatigue related to the thyroid?

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Can you give me more information about how the low thyroid effects menstruation and about insulin resistance before the menstrual cycle?

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How likely will someone with hypothyroidism go on to develop type 1 diabetes? I know that people with type 1 can develop hypothyroidism, but I don’t know about the reverse.

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How would untreated Hashimoto’s thyroiditis affect blood sugar levels? How might starting a regimen of thyroxine affect sugar levels and/or insulin effectiveness?

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Just diagnosed, my teen daughter’s blood work indicated high GAD, extremely high Anti-thyroid Peroxidase AB and high Thyroglobulin. Are these related to type 1 or some other disease?

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