Guest guest Posted December 28, 2001 Report Share Posted December 28, 2001 , The following website has information that I would want at my disposal if I were to have more children: http://www.thyroidmanager.org/thyroidbook.htm Good Luck- Shelagh TT/right neck dissection 10/31/01 RAI 155.4 mCi 12/11/01 > Hi everyone > > Just a question. My husband and I are considering having another child. Does anyone out there have any suggestions on where to research pregnancy after ThyCa and RAI? I've talked to my doctor and she said there is no reason not to get pregnant. She said the only thing to take in consideration is the increased need for thyroid hormone during pregnancy and the need for my levels to be closely monitored by her. I know you should wait 6 months to one year after RAI to get pregnant. My biggest questions are is pregnancy going to increase my chance for a reoccurrence, will my baby be harmed in any way from synthroid, can I breast feed safely while on synthroid, and what are the odds of my child getting ThyCa? > > Thank you for any input > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 28, 2001 Report Share Posted December 28, 2001 hi laura, i had my thyroids removed only to find out that i was pregnant during the surgery. it didn't show up on the blood work before hand , so they figure i was maybe a week pregnant. 2 weeks after the surgery i was scheduled for my first rai , they called me and told me i couldn't because i was pregnant. my son was born with out any problems. in 1999 i had my third son after having rai 3 months before i got pregnant. i was considered high risk and was monitored very closely through out . my boys are all just fine , right now. they get checked to make sure they don't develope any future problems. in my opinion i would advise aginst getting pregnant untill at least 1 year after rai to avoid having to worry so much. thank you, michelle barth --- LAURA SAFA wrote: > Hi everyone > > Just a question. My husband and I are considering > having another child. Does anyone out there have > any suggestions on where to research pregnancy after > ThyCa and RAI? I've talked to my doctor and she > said there is no reason not to get pregnant. She > said the only thing to take in consideration is the > increased need for thyroid hormone during pregnancy > and the need for my levels to be closely monitored > by her. I know you should wait 6 months to one year > after RAI to get pregnant. My biggest questions are > is pregnancy going to increase my chance for a > reoccurrence, will my baby be harmed in any way from > synthroid, can I breast feed safely while on > synthroid, and what are the odds of my child getting > ThyCa? > > Thank you for any input > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been > removed] > > __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 29, 2001 Report Share Posted December 29, 2001 Hi, - You've gotten some excellent responses from the group, but I didn't notice answers to your last questions, regarding Synthroid. Synthroid (or any other brand of levothyroxine) will not harm your baby in any way, either in utero, or through breast feeding. In spite of the fact that we have been seeing some familial thyca connections, the prevailing wisdom is that your child will have no greater odds of getting thyca than it would if you didn't have it. - NYC (TT 2/99 dx pap/foll; RAI 100 mCi 3/99 & 4/00; current TSH ~.06 on .225 levothyroxine) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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