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My pre-surgery blood test showed that I'm hypoglycemic and have hypothyroidism. I'm 3 1/2 weeks post-op, and none of that stuff has bothered me until recently.

For the past few days, I have had zero energy. I wake up, work out, and then lay in bed all day until it's time for me to get up and go out at night. Yesterday, I even had to drag myself to go out. Today, I'm running a sub temperature of 96.5, which I can only assume is because my hypothyroidism is kicking in full force. My surgeon wanted me to stay off of all medication until my next blood test. I put off working out this morning because I was hoping that eating first would give me more energy. It didn't. I'm tired, depressed, and all I want to do is lay around and be miserable.

I have exercised religiously every day since getting out of the hospital. I've been walking 2 miles a day the past few days. Today, I just don't feel like I have it in me. I guess I'm looking for permission to be lazy for a day. Even if I take today off, I doubt I'll feel any better tomorrow. I probably won't feel better until I can get on some type of thyroid medication at the end of the month. Blegh.

Also, I ate a piece of quiche earlier. I scooped out the egg, but I think I got some pieces of crust mixed in. Now it hurts to drink Water. Not sure what's going on there either. I kind of just want to curl up into a little ball and die right now.

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I fell on my treadmill and tore my left arm up pretty bad so I have to take a break from walking on it. Don't worry about a short break but maybe see if you can see your primary care before you see your surgeon again for advice about your meds? If its affecting you in how you feel. I had to contact my primary care before surgery because I lost some weight waiting for my date and with the pre-op diet I was on for 2 weeks I had to come off most of my blood sugar leds even before I had surgery.

Your pcp and your surgeon should be a partnership! Good luck!!

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I do work out when I'm fatigued, I just don't work it "hard" like I do on a typical day. My schedule is, if it's a work day, I get up an hour early (that's 4:30AM peeps)! and spend at least 50 minutes on my stationary bike. On a normal day I do hill intervals on about level 15-18. Several days per week I add some push ups and crunches to the mix. If I'm tired, fatigued, have a cold, whatever, I may do a flat course around level 10 instead. I still try to go for the same amount of time, I just don't work it as hard. For me not breaking the habit is key. That said, I did have a few weeks over the holidays where I was really sick and skipped a couple of days here and there. I think I felt worse when I skipped than I do when work it "light".

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