How many of you 1.5's also have autoimmune thyroid disease?

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Permalink Reply by Melitta on July 5, 2009 at 9:36pm

I have Hashimoto's disease (autoimmune hypothyroidism) diagnosed at the same time as Type 1 autoimmune diabetes. At age 35. A statistic I read long ago was that a majority of women with Type 1 diabetes, over the age of 40, also have Hashimoto's. Would be interesting to know how that correlates to those on tudiabetes.

Melitta

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Permalink Reply by Kristy on July 5, 2009 at 9:46pm

I have Graves disease (autoimmune hyperthyroid). Diagnosed mid 20's. I was diagnosed at 38 with diabetes (misdiagnosed as T2 but later as T1/LADA by my endo)

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Permalink Reply by Zoe on July 6, 2009 at 6:00am

Ditto Graves disease. I had my thyroid destroyed by radiation at age 46 and was misdiagnosed Type 2 at age 58 (rediagnosed LADA two months ago).

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Permalink Reply by Kristy on July 6, 2009 at 5:20pm

Ditto radiation..not once but twice :-( and during my childbearing years. I had to wait 2yrs before I could even consider getting pregnant. Oddly for me, I have 2 autoimmunes and NO history of either in my family..

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Permalink Reply by molly hall on July 6, 2009 at 6:06am

How would you know if you have any of these diseases? I don't have an endo. My Doctor specializes in diabetes and hypertension.

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Permalink Reply by Linda Fox on July 6, 2009 at 6:19am

molly, your MD would have to run a TSH and/or T4 and/or T3 on you.

Interesting. Had not heard the 50% statistic. I know thyroid disease is very common -- like one in ten.

My MD ran a stat TSH on me and upped my T4 dose while I hospitalized too. One reason I was rather relentless in getting GADA run!

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Permalink Reply by molly hall on July 6, 2009 at 6:31am

Would a Dr. just randomly run these tests or are there symptoms first that would make them want to?

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Permalink Reply by Linda Fox on July 6, 2009 at 7:30am

They are supposed to screen women over 50. But I got it in my 30's so ... I would ask!

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Permalink Reply by Kristy on July 6, 2009 at 5:13pm

I have read that thyroid disease is the most underdiagnosed disease. Your MD could run a full female panel (that is what my PGP called it) It's only about 20$ more than the Thyroid test and includes a few other tests. A Physician Asst recommended that for me once when I went for a thyroid checkup. It was this test that caught my diabetes. It should be no big deal for them to check if you ask and honestly it's such a simple test I think it should be done at least yearly; especially when someone shows unusual signs of rapid weight gain or loss, hair loss, lethargy , insomnia or menstrual changes (in women of course LOL)

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Permalink Reply by Kristin on July 6, 2009 at 7:37am

I have tested strongly positive for antibodies related to Hashimoto's (I think the upper bound was 60 and my reading was 600). But my TSH is still within the lab defined value of "normal" (around 2.5-3.5). So I am not yet treating it.

Almost every woman on both sides of my family has hypothyroidism. I assume that at least many of the cases are autoimmune related.

I think this is highly connected to autoimmune diabetes (both type 1/1.5). I was diagnosed with type 1/LADA diabetes at the age of 21, but was considered type 1 because of sudden onset.

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Permalink Reply by Carol Coombes on July 6, 2009 at 7:46am

I was dx as type 1 in 2/07 and the endo started monitoring me then and this past 1/09 I was started on eltoxin, then synthroid for auto-in=mmune hypothyroid

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Permalink Reply by Linda Fox on July 6, 2009 at 7:48am

? Eltoxin?

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