I would like to share my health story with you and tell you the things that I did to improve my health and help control my diabetes. 

I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism (low thyroid) in July 1973. I was put on the medication Levothyroxin and I thought that would fix the problem.  It didn’t.  In fact it began to cause a long chain of problems as the ongoing blood tests every three months showed the thyroid too high, then too low. This went on for many years.

I was diagnosed with Type II Diabetes on April 1, 2005, and was experiencing a number of other health challenges.

As with the thyroid my doctor kept trying to get my blood sugar in a healthy A1C below 7.0.  It would drop down some and three months later it would be up again.  At one point my A1C was 17. Very bad. The suggestion from the dietician was to keep increasing my insulin by two units everyday until my morning blood sugar was under 100. Months went by and no matter how much I increased my insulin I couldn’t get my morning blood sugar under 130.  Then my doctor said to me that I would never get my blood sugar under control until I got the thyroid under control. Why had I never been told before the relationship between my Thyroid and my Diabetes??

At that point a very good friend suggested I go to the thyroid specialists she went to.

He was a thyroid specialist with his own clinic and his own lab.  This was amazing.  Most labs across the United States test the TSH to determine if your thyroid is high, low or just right.  His clinic tests a multitude of hormones that are all related to the health of the thyroid. It took many months but finally my thyroid, after years of problems, is right on dead center. And better yet it stays there instead of jumping all over the place.

After getting the thyroid under control I went to a specialist for my Type II Diabetes.

Again with more diet changes, medication changes and loosing over 90 pounds, the diabetes is under control.

In April of 2012 I had been off insulin and since April of 2015 my A1C has dropped from a high of 17 to 8.1.  And I feel great!!!

Well as of this writing, I am still off insulin and my diabetes is still doing great with an A1C of 7.1. 

**An update as of December 2020 my A1C is 6.7 and my Diabetes doctor is taking me off another one of my medications.  I now only take: Metformin, Nateglinide and Invokana and I have remained off of insulin for the past 8 years.

So my advice to you or anyone you know that is having similar health issues is: DON’T GIVE UP!! DON’T TAKE THE ADVICE OF THE FIRST DIAGNOSIS AS GOSPEL AND SEEK THE OPINION OF A PROFESSIONAL IN YOUR SPECIFIC AREA OF HEALTH CONCERN.