@Sugar_and_Spice @kross8 and others -
I'd been at 115-118lbs. since high school, until about 1996. I then dropped down to 95-97lbs for no reason over a 6 week period of time. Sleep habits had become whacked, had a problem with my nails lifting up from the nail beds on 2 fingers and my thumb on each hand, and had what I call some "twittering" in my legs that made my pantslegs quiver, etc. Crappy doctor (too busy having an affair with his nurse to pay attention to his medical practice) was then treating me for a
supposed nail fungus for over a year, since that was 1 of the first symptoms I'd had!
Fed up with crappy doctor, I went to a dermatologist. He looked at my hands & nails, and
within 3 minutes...said that's called thyroid taxicosis. It's a dead giveaway of a highly overactive thyroid! He had a TSH test done on me and discovered my thyroid was making enough thyroxine for me and 4 other people! Started seeing an endo., and my thyroid was zapped with a radioactive iodine pill. Been back at my reg. 115-118 again since then...until I quit smoking in 2014.
I'd
always had enough energy for me and several other people.. Could do yardwork in 90 degree heat for hours on end with minimal breaks. Built my own 24 x 24 storage building at age 58...every nut, bolt, nail, screw, board, steel roofing panel, etc. Only thing I didn't do was the concrete foundation. So I'm not used to having NO energy at all. It's driving me friggin' nuts, but I can't get any help from doctors with it!
So the only think I can think of to do, without self-regulating my thyroid meds (which I don't want to mess with), is raise the nic in my liquids, and see if it helps. I don't want to do nic patches, because I have a mitral valve prolapse, so years ago doctor would not prescribe nic patches because of it.
I'll be interested if a higher nic level works for anyone else, too! I'm going to try it myself starting tomorrow.