Quote Originally Posted by matagi View Post
Do you have a glucometer to check your blood sugar level? That would tell you if you are not handling carbs effectively, because your blood glucose would be high after a high carb meal and it would stay high. The way to check would be to measure your blood glucose before eating and then again exactly 2 hours after eating.

Hypothyroidism can affect blood sugar levels, so the two things could well be linked. Hopefully the endocrinologist will sort things out for you.
What I can tell you is that my fasting blood glucose is always marginally elevated, ~105 mg/dL while my fasting insulin is always marginally depressed 4.8~ulU/mL on my last lab. While my thyroid tests all look really good (I take 175ug synthroid daily), I still get those low thyroid like symptoms periodically, low body temp., sleepy, but today was the first day it happened so directly following a hi-carb meal. I did try to measure my blood glucose after the meal, but my glucometer needs new batteries. But does that matter, if eating carbs consistently makes me feel bad shouldn't I not eat them? Also, I cannot lose weight following a balanced low cal diet, so its another reason to give low carb a try. I was avoiding it cuz I worried about bonking, which is why I was so curious what other gals here do that follow low carb diets for weight loss but then cycle a lot. You are right though, I should try monitoring my blood glucose levels, so I will pick up some batteries later today. I am hoping to collect this kind of data to bring with me to the appt. with my endo, along with food and exercise logs.