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I was told back in June I was pre diabetic. The endo that made the diagnosis didn't look at any blood work. Just said that if I'm having hypoglycemic symptoms in the range I'm having them then I must be pre diabetic. She put me on the diabetic diet and told me to lose 20 lbs. I've been following the diet pretty well and have lost about 14 lbs. But things aren't getting any better. I'm starting to get hypoglycemic symptoms in the mid to low 80's. The diabetic education center here in town had me do some pair testing. None of my numbers reflected high. So they don' think it's sugar but it has to be. I ended up in the er last week cuz I couldn't get my sugar up after it dropped to 58 an hour after eating. I'm dropping multiple times a day. I get shaky, weak, and extremely tired. It makes me just want to go to sleep and sometimes it's all I can do to not just lay down on the ground where I'm at. I've managed to not pass out a few times by what I guess is sheer will power. I'm drinking between 64 and 99 oz of water a day. That doesn't include 3 8oz glasses of milk a day and coke when I drop. So as you can imagine I have to hit the head quite often too. I have zero energy. Sometimes I'm starving and just want to eat and eat and other times I don't feel like I can eat. I feel like I"ll get sick if I do. My ANP doesn't know what to do and just wants me to take a glucose tab every 8 hours around the clock. Yeah, that didn't really help. She wants me to wait 3 weeks to give the thyroid meds a chance to kick in since the er dx'ed me as hypothyroid but I really don't want to keep doing this for 3 more weeks then end up waiting like a month to see a specialist. I've had a headache for the last 4 days and last night woke up cold and sweaty. I'm sorry this post is so long but I really don't know what to do. I drop no matter how much I eat. I don't feel good unless I'm up in the 100's.