About Karen Brawner Expertise I am not a doctor, however, I do have experience in the endocrinology field personally because I suffer from diabetes, have had thyroid problems and recently had to have thyroid surgery for complex cysts and will help you with questions regarding the endocrine system and how it works and what can go wrong with it.
Experience I suffer from thyroid disease, adrenal gland problems due to long term progesterone treatments, autoimmune diabetes, systemic sclerosis, Crest syndrome and a large list of other medical problems.
Question what symptoms did you experience that made you to see the doctor? just curious.. wondering about both diabetes/thyroid
Answer Dear Isreal, I had all the common symptoms of a thyroid problem, but all thyroid blood work would come back normal for the 5 years it was tested... It was not until my doctor thought I had had a stroke, and ordered an ultrasound on my carotid arteries, and that is when they found the complex cysts on my thyroid....
As for the diabetes, I also had the thurst and frequent urination and my doctor, who is excellent, always checks for these things annually and when she did the glucose test, there it was.... My glucose level was out the top....
