Hello all-
I haven't posted in a while but I do read often. Always something new to learn. Love it. I have just passed 2 years since LC symptoms started. Hard to believe. I'd say I'm 70% better so that's great progress. I've really worked on acceptance and deal with it so much better now. I just know it's not on my mind ALL the time. I still have some things to work on for more progress but that will come.
So I just had blood work done for a physical and the results were posted on their portal. I wanted to be prepared with information when I go in next week for my follow up. I'm noticing that over the last 18 months, my fasting blood sugar is steadily rising as is my A-1C. This concerns me since this is not a route I want to go down. The fasting blood sugar is flagged as High at 114 but A1-C still in normal range (just) at 5.5. This 18 months is the same amount of time I've been on Armour Thyroid. My TSH is also rising-up 1 put from last year.
Many thoughts floating around my head. It seems that Armour has some warnings that it can increase blood sugar....if so, what to do? How to counteract? I exercise just about daily, obviously my diet is restricted due to LC, I take 400 mg of Drs Best mag glycinate, I also do Epsom salts, lotion, oil randomly, Vit C, COQ10, active B's, fish oil and 5000 D3 daily.
So trying to isolate what is causing the blood sugar to slowly creep up-medicine (Armour), thyroid being too hypo, diet, need more magnesium??? I have tried Re-mag on and off but I think it gives me D.
I have a feeling she may want to up the Armour but she is open to discussion and she's good about follow up to track these issues. Trying to develop a proactive plan. Nothing else in labs was flagged. Urine fine, EKG normal. Have been having a bit more anxiety lately... making me think magnesium or thyroid off.
Any suggestions or thoughts appreciated.....thank you.
Also if there is still a Canadian flag by my profile, I need help fixing it (although right now I would love to be Canadian). I tried to get the US flag back-not sure if successful.
Taia
Update on LC and blood sugar/thyroid stuff
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Hi Taia,
That Canadian flag is placed there automatically by the system, based on the IP address of your Internet connection. IOW, It's due to the IP address assigned by your Internet service provider. Either IP addresses have been reshuffled between countries, or there's a glitch in the software due to changes made in IP address assignment.
The only way to remove it permanently is to select an avatar from the many options available in your profile, or upload an avatar made from a photo or digital image file. If you need help doing that, let me know and I'll be happy to help, or do it for you. Whatever you prefer.
The blood sugar issue can be tough to resolve because as insulin resistance increases, magnesium becomes less effective at resolving the problem. And it's not just Armour — any thyroid treatment is going to increase the blood sugar level because hypothyroidism is associated with hypoglycemia.
Theoretically, magnesium should help because magnesium helps to reduce insulin resistance and it also helps to increase insulin production by the pancreas. You seem to be getting enough magnesium (for normal conditions), so I wonder if your insulin resistance might be significant enough that it's preventing you from being able to properly utilize magnesium. Increasing your magnesium dose (or topical treatments) appears to be the most logical thing to try at this point. If you can get the insulin resistance trend turned around, then magnesium will be able to accelerate the process because it will become increasingly effective.
Sorry I couldn't be more helpful.
Tex
That Canadian flag is placed there automatically by the system, based on the IP address of your Internet connection. IOW, It's due to the IP address assigned by your Internet service provider. Either IP addresses have been reshuffled between countries, or there's a glitch in the software due to changes made in IP address assignment.
The only way to remove it permanently is to select an avatar from the many options available in your profile, or upload an avatar made from a photo or digital image file. If you need help doing that, let me know and I'll be happy to help, or do it for you. Whatever you prefer.
The blood sugar issue can be tough to resolve because as insulin resistance increases, magnesium becomes less effective at resolving the problem. And it's not just Armour — any thyroid treatment is going to increase the blood sugar level because hypothyroidism is associated with hypoglycemia.
Theoretically, magnesium should help because magnesium helps to reduce insulin resistance and it also helps to increase insulin production by the pancreas. You seem to be getting enough magnesium (for normal conditions), so I wonder if your insulin resistance might be significant enough that it's preventing you from being able to properly utilize magnesium. Increasing your magnesium dose (or topical treatments) appears to be the most logical thing to try at this point. If you can get the insulin resistance trend turned around, then magnesium will be able to accelerate the process because it will become increasingly effective.
Sorry I couldn't be more helpful.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
Thanks Tex.
I got the avatar thing figured out. We did have an internet provider change so makes total sense.
As for the blood sugar/thyroid stuff....this scares me. I can only do what is in my control I guess. I should have mentioned that even though I have been supplementing with mag for over a year, I only recently (last 2 weeks) upped it to 400 mg and I'm probably not considered to be in a normal health state at this point. Prior to that I'd say I was around 200-300 mg oral plus the random topical.
I will continue with the mag and perhaps increase since kidney's look good. I'll keep up my exercise and diet. I'll go to my follow up and see what she thinks. I know she will want to up the Armour and recheck thyroid/blood sugar. I'm glad to catch this now in hopes I can get it turned around. I'd love to figure out the fundamental stuff going on with my thyroid because it's just going to be this cycle of going more hypo/more meds etc. I know there is a lot of info on here about thyroid issues but not ready to mentally deal with that now. I have not ever had any traditional symptoms of hypo and never would have known had it not been tested a few years back.
Have a good weekend everyone!
Taia
I got the avatar thing figured out. We did have an internet provider change so makes total sense.
As for the blood sugar/thyroid stuff....this scares me. I can only do what is in my control I guess. I should have mentioned that even though I have been supplementing with mag for over a year, I only recently (last 2 weeks) upped it to 400 mg and I'm probably not considered to be in a normal health state at this point. Prior to that I'd say I was around 200-300 mg oral plus the random topical.
I will continue with the mag and perhaps increase since kidney's look good. I'll keep up my exercise and diet. I'll go to my follow up and see what she thinks. I know she will want to up the Armour and recheck thyroid/blood sugar. I'm glad to catch this now in hopes I can get it turned around. I'd love to figure out the fundamental stuff going on with my thyroid because it's just going to be this cycle of going more hypo/more meds etc. I know there is a lot of info on here about thyroid issues but not ready to mentally deal with that now. I have not ever had any traditional symptoms of hypo and never would have known had it not been tested a few years back.
Have a good weekend everyone!
Taia
In that case (because you've been taking a relatively low dose) I'm more optimistic that you may be able to turn things around by increasing your dose of magnesium. I was taking 200–300 mg of magnesium 2 years ago when my chronic magnesium deficiency finally became so severe that I finally figured it out and resolved it. The fact that we think we're taking enough magnesium makes it much more difficult to realize that magnesium deficiency is our main problem. We automatically assume that it has to be something else.
Thanks, and I hope that you have a very enjoyable weekend too.
Tex
Thanks, and I hope that you have a very enjoyable weekend too.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.