Changes since T4

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My thyroid was removed in November cuz it was cancer (and dying.)

December 9th I started 200 mg Levothyroxine. I see endo next week,

I expect it will be raised cuz I'm wiped out when on it alone.

I used to have to eat some kind of protein about every 4 hrs. 5 hrs

was about the maximum I could do. My blood sugar dropped otherwise

(dx by noticing my physical symptoms - sweaty/clammy, weak,

nauseous, shaky, tired, rubber legs.) I am not diabetic, it was

tested last year(and if I ate sugar, I bet it would have come back

as diabetic.) I've done the - eat every 4 hrs, for 13 yrs. I also

stay away from refined sugar, and some naturals - juices have been

like mainlining sugar, and some fruits, pineapple, oranges. When I

got some energy back after the surgery, about the time T4 med kicked

in some, and I could start thinking better (tsh had been 163), I

started noticing if I go longer between eating, I don't get the

blood sugar drop symptoms. I can eat now because my stomach is

growling, not so to keep blood sugar up. In my fatigue, and brain

fog accompanying hypothy, and I'm still somewhat hypothy, I would be

too tired to go get something to eat when it was time per my past

every 4 hr schedule. I would wait till I had to go potty, then grab

something to eat. I have gone 6 and 8 hrs before eating something

and the low blood sugar symptoms haven't hit. I've done that

multiple times. I find it interesting. It's not an eating schedule

I recommend, but in being unwell, it's what I've done. Right now

it's been 6 hrs, I think, since I last ate. My stomach is feeling

hungry, but I don't have the low blood sugar symptoms.(I'm trying to

decide what I'm going to eat.) I'm keeping an eye on it, but I find

it interesting that the low blood sugar symptoms stopped.

jane