Helping you manage your endocrine disorder
Fatigue, weakness, mood swings, weight changes, and changes in your blood sugar levels are signs of an endocrine disorder. Endocrinologists at Ascension Medical Group St. John Endocrinology have the expertise to diagnose and treat adults with endocrine disorders, including:
- Adrenal insufficiency and Addison's disease
- Cushing's syndrome
- Diabetes (Type 1, Type 2 and Type 1.5, also called latent autoimmune diabetes in adults)
- Gestational diabetes (diabetes during pregnancy)
- Graves' disease
- Growth hormone deficiency in pituitary gland
- Hashimoto's disease
- Osteoporosis
- Pituitary and adrenal disease
- Polycystic ovary syndrome
- Thyroid disease, including hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism
These conditions can affect your metabolism, mood, sleep, blood pressure, and more. Your doctor starts by listening to you, to better understand you and your health. Then, we work with you to create a care plan that's right for you. Your care team may include support from clinical diabetes educators, nurses, and registered dietitians.
Comprehensive care for diabetes and other endocrine disorders
Diabetes can be hereditary or caused by diet, lifestyle choices and other health conditions, such as heart disease, high blood pressure and obesity. If left untreated over time, diabetes can affect your heart, blood vessels, eyes, kidneys and nerves. Talk to your doctor about new symptoms and if you've been diagnosed with other health conditions. We will also help connect you with diabetes educators and other specialists as needed to help manage and support your condition.
At Ascension Medical Group St. John Endocrinology, your doctor and care team provide specialty care for all types of diabetes, including gestational diabetes (diabetes during pregnancy). Our diabetic support focuses on building self-management skills, including:
- Administering insulin
- Managing medications and side effects
- Monitoring blood glucose
- Preventing diabetic-related conditions such as neuropathy, foot and vision problems, polycystic ovary syndrome, vascular disease, and heart disease
- Recognizing impaired glucose tolerances
Thyroid and endocrine disorders – Our board-certified endocrinologists have the expertise to diagnose and treat thyroid tumors and other endocrine diseases. Endocrine disorders can affect other parts of your body. If needed, your doctor and care team can connect you with an experienced specialist in heart care, women's health, bone health, eye health and more.
Treatments for endocrine diseases may include:
- Medications that add, block or remove hormones
- Hormone replacement therapy
- Hormone suppression medications
- Radiation therapy (brachytherapy with radioactive seed implants)
- Surgical removal of a tumor affecting hormone production
Diabetes education program
If you or your family have a history of diabetes, you may be at higher risk for developing diabetes. Certified diabetes educators at our Diabetes Education Program at Ascension St. John Jane Phillips Healthy Lifestyles are here to help.
We provide outpatient Diabetes Education services that include the CDC National Diabetes Prevention Program with diabetes management classes and one-on-one sessions, such as:
- Meal planning
- Blood glucose monitoring
- Diabetes during pregnancy
- Insulin instruction
- Insulin pump and continuous glucose monitor training
A doctor's referral is needed to register for the program. To learn more, call 918-331-1143.
If you are experiencing a diabetes-related medical emergency, go to the nearest ER and call 9-1-1.
