I'm curious as to whether other folks diagnosed with hypo have lost alot of weight without even trying?
It started the week of christmas which I thought was related to stress but it continued dropping and dropping.
This is when I went to the gastro, gp, gyno, etc. Because nothing was jumping out at the doctors. They were just as worried as my family who thought I was purposely not eating enough.
I was eating like a truck driver, not less food but more.
I was always hungry. The girls at work started commenting how they wish they could eat what they want and lose weight like I was.
I at first liked that I was sheding pounds without even trying. But after a while, it got ridiculous. My sister and others said I looked like I was a victim from the concentration camps or that I had aids. I was getting frightened at this point. I had to supplement my diet with those drinks that put on calories and have loads of supplements.
I dropped down from 130 pounds down to 100 within a matter of months.
No one thought of doing a gtt test. My gastro dr thought I had pancreatitis but the mri failed to show this true.
There still is no definitve answer as to why the weight dropped and i'm wondering if maybe it's correlated with having hypoglycemia?

I'm going to ask the endocronolgist when I see her for a follow up in six weeks, because I never recieved an answer.

Is this a common feature with hypo?

I've stopped losing weight but still remain under for my height.
I'm 46 yrs old and i'm 5'7" tall and i'm up to 113 pounds.

I'm incorportating excersise finally and now want to change my diet accordingly for hypo treatment but I can't afford to drop back down to 100 pounds.
I had to have female surgery last fall of 2005 and a week after surgery when I was home, I had an intestinal blockage and was put back in the hospital and put on a strict liquid diet for 3 very long days which made me drop down to 98 pounds. This is why it's not good to get too low incase we do get diagnosed with some serious illness and then we have no back up to support our weakened system.
It scared the heck out of me. I was very ill and I never knew how I took for granted how our digestive system is designed to work so smoothy when we're healthy with no problems. It was miserable and I never want to go thru that again.

So has anyone lost weight too unintentionally because of hypo?

Linda