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<blockquote data-quote="Star*" data-source="post: 360158" data-attributes="member: 4964"><p>I had been tested - nearly 9 times or more over the last 6 years for thyroid problems - over and over - ugh. They kept going back to Hashimotos. I would look up what they suspected and FINALLY? I just stopped looking stuff up. When they said Scleroderma? I nearly passed out when I found out what that is. They said Cushings too. I DO have Raynauds and at times it is very uncomfortable, but it's been very manageable. I also have Thalassemia - which is basically nothing but glorified anemia (pft) as I am a carrier/trait. I mean after brain tumor? Everything else is like - Wha? Okay - bandaid. But like I've said before - even in the MRI tube? I asked jokingly for an 8x10 of the xray so i could prove to my mother after my 1st marriage that "Yes Mom I did have a brain." Of course amid snickers I heard "You must lay very still and be quiet. No one tells you that the machine is NOT quiet and is going to pound your head WHOM WHOM WHOM WHOM for the next 15 minutes - or that your veins are crud and you have to take contrast in an IV the top of your foot - FUN....(not) but I think of the kids in the cancer ward and it was all just so painless. Before that? I had my adrenals CT scanned for some tumor thing. (don't you love my medical terminology? Note to self - (this is exactly why I am not getting that job in the hospital - no medical terminology background....describes CT adrenal tumor scan as a thingy) And the buffalo hump I had that gave them the Cushings indication? Yeah - well probably just a fat hump like a camel who stores water because as I've lost weight - I've lost the hump-d-hump. I'm so glad - now necklaces fit...I don't have a desire to wander in the desert, I've stopped spitting. (mostly) </p><p> </p><p>As far as the committment? Well there it is. The test itself for the fasting glucose tolerance wasn't a huge one - so Little DM...if you are going to the doctor? Nothing to eat or drink after midnight - that way if you do get it - you can have it that morning. Problem solved with one visit...Know what I mean?? Maybe you can call ahead to make sure the lab has room and talk with the nurse to put you down for it that day. You can only be told no. They can do a finger prick for regular sugars testing - but to really see what is going on and how your body is processing all of this? I was told you should have a glucose tolerance test - and that sugary soda (yum) .....icsh. Ask for orange. Grape was NOT tolerable. Hold your nose too. Talk about wonky donky. I manage with the metformin to hang out around 114.....so with NWOL, some walking and medications - she said that's a LOT better than when I came in - I was over 200. Which isn't bad but for a borderline - not very good. I know diabetics that have been over 500 - I have no idea how your brain functions at those levels. Mine was foggy at 200 and nearly stupid at 270. </p><p> </p><p>They did other tests. She just tested me again for thyroid imbalance -------I mean after I tried to take out the woman in the SUV over cutting in line a couple of weeks ago and got on the anti anxiety medications? She sensed maybe my thyroid or hormones were off. I'm thinking - Yyyyyyyyep yep yep.....that would just be the way of it wouldn't it? I finally start to get it together and NOW? NOW I'm going to forget where I put it. Time of life change? Or just nerves. I had to laugh - even DF said - If most people lived one week of what she endures in a day? They would be in the nut hut. And yet - here we all are. Still going strong. There's something to be said for CD Mom's.....we're just very unique. </p><p> </p><p>pft. Nut hut.....does it come with air conditioning? <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/tongue.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":tongue:" title="tongue :tongue:" data-shortname=":tongue:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Star*, post: 360158, member: 4964"] I had been tested - nearly 9 times or more over the last 6 years for thyroid problems - over and over - ugh. They kept going back to Hashimotos. I would look up what they suspected and FINALLY? I just stopped looking stuff up. When they said Scleroderma? I nearly passed out when I found out what that is. They said Cushings too. I DO have Raynauds and at times it is very uncomfortable, but it's been very manageable. I also have Thalassemia - which is basically nothing but glorified anemia (pft) as I am a carrier/trait. I mean after brain tumor? Everything else is like - Wha? Okay - bandaid. But like I've said before - even in the MRI tube? I asked jokingly for an 8x10 of the xray so i could prove to my mother after my 1st marriage that "Yes Mom I did have a brain." Of course amid snickers I heard "You must lay very still and be quiet. No one tells you that the machine is NOT quiet and is going to pound your head WHOM WHOM WHOM WHOM for the next 15 minutes - or that your veins are crud and you have to take contrast in an IV the top of your foot - FUN....(not) but I think of the kids in the cancer ward and it was all just so painless. Before that? I had my adrenals CT scanned for some tumor thing. (don't you love my medical terminology? Note to self - (this is exactly why I am not getting that job in the hospital - no medical terminology background....describes CT adrenal tumor scan as a thingy) And the buffalo hump I had that gave them the Cushings indication? Yeah - well probably just a fat hump like a camel who stores water because as I've lost weight - I've lost the hump-d-hump. I'm so glad - now necklaces fit...I don't have a desire to wander in the desert, I've stopped spitting. (mostly) As far as the committment? Well there it is. The test itself for the fasting glucose tolerance wasn't a huge one - so Little DM...if you are going to the doctor? Nothing to eat or drink after midnight - that way if you do get it - you can have it that morning. Problem solved with one visit...Know what I mean?? Maybe you can call ahead to make sure the lab has room and talk with the nurse to put you down for it that day. You can only be told no. They can do a finger prick for regular sugars testing - but to really see what is going on and how your body is processing all of this? I was told you should have a glucose tolerance test - and that sugary soda (yum) .....icsh. Ask for orange. Grape was NOT tolerable. Hold your nose too. Talk about wonky donky. I manage with the metformin to hang out around 114.....so with NWOL, some walking and medications - she said that's a LOT better than when I came in - I was over 200. Which isn't bad but for a borderline - not very good. I know diabetics that have been over 500 - I have no idea how your brain functions at those levels. Mine was foggy at 200 and nearly stupid at 270. They did other tests. She just tested me again for thyroid imbalance -------I mean after I tried to take out the woman in the SUV over cutting in line a couple of weeks ago and got on the anti anxiety medications? She sensed maybe my thyroid or hormones were off. I'm thinking - Yyyyyyyyep yep yep.....that would just be the way of it wouldn't it? I finally start to get it together and NOW? NOW I'm going to forget where I put it. Time of life change? Or just nerves. I had to laugh - even DF said - If most people lived one week of what she endures in a day? They would be in the nut hut. And yet - here we all are. Still going strong. There's something to be said for CD Mom's.....we're just very unique. pft. Nut hut.....does it come with air conditioning? :raspberry-tounge: [/QUOTE]
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