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Type 2 diabetic, diagnosed with hypothyroidism recently. put on levothyroxine. sugar rocketed since diagnosis and weight increased by 15 pounds in same period. feel worse. what could be going on? doc had said that sugar and weight would go down?
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Wt gain type 2 DM: You are likely eating more calories than you burn. Go to Cronometer app and enter everything you eat and all your exercises and you will see eat less than you burn and white will go down never fails. Simple in concept but difficult in execution.
Answered 2/26/2021
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