Hypothyroid and Post-Pregnancy

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Hello There,

I'm new at this and just want to express myself. When I was 22 I

went on a trip to Europe and in London I got wet from the rain and

got sick. Turn out that I got a severe throat infection. After the

trip I felt very tired, gain a lot of weight (about 30 pounds in 6

months) my hair started to look pretty bad (before was the most

beautiful hair) and started to feel very upset for nothing. A few

years passed by and I met my husband today. Her mother also has

thyroid problems and I saw a lot of the things that she has that I

also have. So one day talking to my psycologist (treatment for

depression) he recommended to go to a good Endocrinologist to take a

look at my thyroid.

The day came and only looking at my throat he told me that I have

thyroid problems. So he decided to do a Biopsy to be sure. It turns

out that my thyroid has 2 nodules and my thyroid is dead so I have

Hashimoto's Desease and it was from that trip that the bacteria went

to the thyroid and my inmunne system kill it in the process.

The years passed by and I only felt so depress because of my weight.

From a size 5 now a size 14. Now I have two beautiful children ( a

girl and a boy) and recently I had the boy and found out that I have

Hyperthyroidsm like the pregnancy before.

After giving birth my thyroid change to hyper and now I can't sleep

one day and the other I'm sleeping for long hours (after my husband

come back from work of course), eating too much but I can't help it

because you are always hungry and it is not thirsty because I drink

daily 2 1/2 liter of water because I'm breastfeeding. Also I have a

big problem retaining water so my weight is crazy coming up an down.

I think that my body is pretty out of control and don't know how to

deal with it.

I'm trying to do exercise but I feel so drained and tired that at the

end of the day I'm sleeping in my bed and don't have the strengh to

do it.

Any comments of how to improve or any comments at all are welcome and

thank you for reading...

Marilyn

[Guest guest]

Hi there,

I am new to this group too. I have Hashimoto's hypothyroidism. I feel

your pain because I too suffer from many of the same problems you

mentioned in your post. I am hoping to get pregnant this year. I

wanted to start a family before but I had such a bad experience with

thyroid specialists and medication I gained a lot of weight and my

system was really messed up. I have lost 60lbs through sheer

determination, exercise, and a very strict low glycemic diet. I am

only just under 200lbs now and I am only 5'2 " . I turned 37 earlier

this year so I don't want to postpone having children too long but I

struggle each day with feeling tired, depressed, etc...

I went back to school as an adult and was always tired. Dr. told me I

was just doing too much and eating the wrong foods. I was working out

plus working and going to school. I attended weightwatcher meetings

and followed the plan but still managed to gain weight. I would come

home and cry after I gained week after week.

Dr. still said nothing was wrong. I paid to see a specialist and

found out about my thyroid problem. I saw another specialist that

kept increasing my synthroid and finally added another medication and

it caused me to have a medically induced overdose. I had heart

palpitaions and felt absolutely awful. On a second opinion I was told

I had hypo & hyperthyroidism at the same time, my heart rate was

dangerously high and I had to come off all medication and wait for

some time to get it out of my system. I was told to look into lap

band surgery b/c I would never lose more than 20lbs by myself.

I am much better now than before and of course I did lose more weight

but I still feel so lousy too often. My hubby is really understanding

but I know it is hard on him too. I eat healthy, I work out

regularly, take my medication, drink lots of water but still feel

lousy.

Sorry to go on but I feel like I have no one to talk to about this or

that no one understands.

>

> Hello There,

>

> I'm new at this and just want to express myself. When I was 22 I

> went on a trip to Europe and in London I got wet from the rain and

> got sick. Turn out that I got a severe throat infection. After

the

> trip I felt very tired, gain a lot of weight (about 30 pounds in 6

> months) my hair started to look pretty bad (before was the most

> beautiful hair) and started to feel very upset for nothing. A few

> years passed by and I met my husband today. Her mother also has

> thyroid problems and I saw a lot of the things that she has that I

> also have. So one day talking to my psycologist (treatment for

> depression) he recommended to go to a good Endocrinologist to take

a

> look at my thyroid.

>

> The day came and only looking at my throat he told me that I have

> thyroid problems. So he decided to do a Biopsy to be sure. It

turns

> out that my thyroid has 2 nodules and my thyroid is dead so I have

> Hashimoto's Desease and it was from that trip that the bacteria

went

> to the thyroid and my inmunne system kill it in the process.

>

>

> The years passed by and I only felt so depress because of my

weight.

> From a size 5 now a size 14. Now I have two beautiful children ( a

> girl and a boy) and recently I had the boy and found out that I

have

> Hyperthyroidsm like the pregnancy before.

>

> After giving birth my thyroid change to hyper and now I can't sleep

> one day and the other I'm sleeping for long hours (after my husband

> come back from work of course), eating too much but I can't help it

> because you are always hungry and it is not thirsty because I drink

> daily 2 1/2 liter of water because I'm breastfeeding. Also I have

a

> big problem retaining water so my weight is crazy coming up an

down.

> I think that my body is pretty out of control and don't know how to

> deal with it.

>

> I'm trying to do exercise but I feel so drained and tired that at

the

> end of the day I'm sleeping in my bed and don't have the strengh to

> do it.

>

> Any comments of how to improve or any comments at all are welcome

and

> thank you for reading...

>

> Marilyn

>

[Guest guest]

Marilyn

You don't say what tests this endo ran, what the thyroid disease diagnosis

was to cause the hypo (autoimmune Hashimoto's?), or what you're being

treated with----Synthroid, other T4, combination of T3 and T4 synthetic, or

Armour Thyroid?? Do you have any test results of history of these tests?

Hypothyroid and Post-Pregnancy

> Hello There,

>

> I'm new at this and just want to express myself. When I was 22 I

> went on a trip to Europe and in London I got wet from the rain and

> got sick. Turn out that I got a severe throat infection. After the

> trip I felt very tired, gain a lot of weight (about 30 pounds in 6

> months) my hair started to look pretty bad (before was the most

> beautiful hair) and started to feel very upset for nothing. A few

> years passed by and I met my husband today. Her mother also has

> thyroid problems and I saw a lot of the things that she has that I

> also have. So one day talking to my psycologist (treatment for

> depression) he recommended to go to a good Endocrinologist to take a

> look at my thyroid.

>

> The day came and only looking at my throat he told me that I have

> thyroid problems. So he decided to do a Biopsy to be sure. It turns

> out that my thyroid has 2 nodules and my thyroid is dead so I have

> Hashimoto's Desease and it was from that trip that the bacteria went

> to the thyroid and my inmunne system kill it in the process.

>

>

> The years passed by and I only felt so depress because of my weight.

> From a size 5 now a size 14. Now I have two beautiful children ( a

> girl and a boy) and recently I had the boy and found out that I have

> Hyperthyroidsm like the pregnancy before.

>

> After giving birth my thyroid change to hyper and now I can't sleep

> one day and the other I'm sleeping for long hours (after my husband

> come back from work of course), eating too much but I can't help it

> because you are always hungry and it is not thirsty because I drink

> daily 2 1/2 liter of water because I'm breastfeeding. Also I have a

> big problem retaining water so my weight is crazy coming up an down.

> I think that my body is pretty out of control and don't know how to

> deal with it.

>

> I'm trying to do exercise but I feel so drained and tired that at the

> end of the day I'm sleeping in my bed and don't have the strengh to

> do it.

>

> Any comments of how to improve or any comments at all are welcome and

> thank you for reading...

>

> Marilyn

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

Beleive me when I tell you I understand completely. To tell you more I'm 30 now but when I was 26 my OBGyn told me that I couldn't have children and one of the reasons was because of my overweight (the other reason was because I have polysistic syndrome). I had a second opinion and this other doctor told me also that I can't have children for the same reasons. Not only I felt more depress the doctor also told me that he will give me $200 of credit in the treatment to get pregnant if I lose 30 pounds.Sureeeeeee it is easy specially if you try and try and try and nothing works to lose the pounds.

I gave up trying to have a child and the next month I was pregnant.....lol!!! Not only the doctor was in shock, he couldn't believe it!!!!

And to make things more exciting this year I had my second child just to make sure that the doctors not always known everything...

I also have a great husband that understand me and is always helping me to feel good about all this and also helping raising two children under the age of 3.

But no one understand completely except if the other person is having the same situation. I'm using Synthroid since the beginning and right now I have to much dose but the doctor is giving me a 2 month period because I need that extra energy to care for my children.

Marilyn

Re: Hypothyroid and Post-Pregnancy

Hi there,I am new to this group too. I have Hashimoto's hypothyroidism. I feel your pain because I too suffer from many of the same problems you mentioned in your post. I am hoping to get pregnant this year. I wanted to start a family before but I had such a bad experience with thyroid specialists and medication I gained a lot of weight and my system was really messed up. I have lost 60lbs through sheer determination, exercise, and a very strict low glycemic diet. I am only just under 200lbs now and I am only 5'2". I turned 37 earlier this year so I don't want to postpone having children too long but I struggle each day with feeling tired, depressed, etc...I went back to school as an adult and was always tired. Dr. told me I was just doing too much and eating the wrong foods. I was working out plus working and going to school. I attended weightwatcher meetings and followed the plan but still managed to gain

weight. I would come home and cry after I gained week after week.Dr. still said nothing was wrong. I paid to see a specialist and found out about my thyroid problem. I saw another specialist that kept increasing my synthroid and finally added another medication and it caused me to have a medically induced overdose. I had heart palpitaions and felt absolutely awful. On a second opinion I was told I had hypo & hyperthyroidism at the same time, my heart rate was dangerously high and I had to come off all medication and wait for some time to get it out of my system. I was told to look into lap band surgery b/c I would never lose more than 20lbs by myself.I am much better now than before and of course I did lose more weight but I still feel so lousy too often. My hubby is really understanding but I know it is hard on him too. I eat healthy, I work out regularly, take my medication, drink lots of water but still

feel lousy.Sorry to go on but I feel like I have no one to talk to about this or that no one understands.>> Hello There,> > I'm new at this and just want to express myself. When I was 22 I > went on a trip to Europe and in London I got wet from the rain and > got sick. Turn out that I got a severe throat infection. After the > trip I felt very tired, gain a lot of weight (about 30 pounds in 6 > months) my hair started to look pretty bad (before was the most > beautiful hair) and started to feel very upset for nothing. A few > years passed by and I met my husband today. Her mother also has > thyroid problems and I saw a lot of the things that she has that I

> also have. So one day talking to my psycologist (treatment for > depression) he recommended to go to a good Endocrinologist to take a > look at my thyroid.> > The day came and only looking at my throat he told me that I have > thyroid problems. So he decided to do a Biopsy to be sure. It turns > out that my thyroid has 2 nodules and my thyroid is dead so I have > Hashimoto's Desease and it was from that trip that the bacteria went > to the thyroid and my inmunne system kill it in the process.> > > The years passed by and I only felt so depress because of my weight. > From a size 5 now a size 14. Now I have two beautiful children ( a > girl and a boy) and recently I had the boy and found out that I have > Hyperthyroidsm like the pregnancy before.> > After giving birth my thyroid change to hyper and now I can't sleep > one day

and the other I'm sleeping for long hours (after my husband > come back from work of course), eating too much but I can't help it > because you are always hungry and it is not thirsty because I drink > daily 2 1/2 liter of water because I'm breastfeeding. Also I have a > big problem retaining water so my weight is crazy coming up an down. > I think that my body is pretty out of control and don't know how to > deal with it.> > I'm trying to do exercise but I feel so drained and tired that at the > end of the day I'm sleeping in my bed and don't have the strengh to > do it.> > Any comments of how to improve or any comments at all are welcome and > thank you for reading... > > Marilyn>

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[Guest guest]

,

What I remember because this was when I was 22 years old and now I am

30 is the T4 was 6.5 and the biopsy was a long neddle that they

insert from your skin to your throat and doesn't hurt. He put me in

Synthoid .75mcg but right now I'm in 100mcg because of the pregnancy

and the result that I took at the beggining of this month shows that

I have to much dose and my thyroid turn to hyper. The doctor will

give me 2 month period because I need the extra energy and then I

will take the blood test again and its called the Thyroid Panel with

TSH to see the level and to low me the dose.

Marilyn

>

> Marilyn

>

> You don't say what tests this endo ran, what the thyroid disease

diagnosis

> was to cause the hypo (autoimmune Hashimoto's?), or what you're

being

> treated with----Synthroid, other T4, combination of T3 and T4

synthetic, or

> Armour Thyroid?? Do you have any test results of history of these

tests?

>

>

>

> Hypothyroid and Post-Pregnancy

>

>

> > Hello There,

> >

> > I'm new at this and just want to express myself. When I was 22 I

> > went on a trip to Europe and in London I got wet from the rain and

> > got sick. Turn out that I got a severe throat infection. After

the

> > trip I felt very tired, gain a lot of weight (about 30 pounds in 6

> > months) my hair started to look pretty bad (before was the most

> > beautiful hair) and started to feel very upset for nothing. A few

> > years passed by and I met my husband today. Her mother also has

> > thyroid problems and I saw a lot of the things that she has that I

> > also have. So one day talking to my psycologist (treatment for

> > depression) he recommended to go to a good Endocrinologist to

take a

> > look at my thyroid.

> >

> > The day came and only looking at my throat he told me that I have

> > thyroid problems. So he decided to do a Biopsy to be sure. It

turns

> > out that my thyroid has 2 nodules and my thyroid is dead so I have

> > Hashimoto's Desease and it was from that trip that the bacteria

went

> > to the thyroid and my inmunne system kill it in the process.

> >

> >

> > The years passed by and I only felt so depress because of my

weight.

> > From a size 5 now a size 14. Now I have two beautiful children (

a

> > girl and a boy) and recently I had the boy and found out that I

have

> > Hyperthyroidsm like the pregnancy before.

> >

> > After giving birth my thyroid change to hyper and now I can't

sleep

> > one day and the other I'm sleeping for long hours (after my

husband

> > come back from work of course), eating too much but I can't help

it

> > because you are always hungry and it is not thirsty because I

drink

> > daily 2 1/2 liter of water because I'm breastfeeding. Also I

have a

> > big problem retaining water so my weight is crazy coming up an

down.

> > I think that my body is pretty out of control and don't know how

to

> > deal with it.

> >

> > I'm trying to do exercise but I feel so drained and tired that at

the

> > end of the day I'm sleeping in my bed and don't have the strengh

to

> > do it.

> >

> > Any comments of how to improve or any comments at all are welcome

and

> > thank you for reading...

> >

> > Marilyn

>

[Guest guest]

But isn't it true that this doctor is going only by your TSH at this Point?

If so, this is the wrong way to adjust dosages. I've seen people with very

low TSHs (I'm one of them), but have unreasonably low thyroid hormones, that

is, FREE T4 and FREE T3. The test you had is a TOTAL T4, which is a very

inaccurate status of thyroid hormone, it includes the BOUND and unbound

hormone. It is the unbound hormone that you want to measure, in order to be

accurate. Thousands of doctors don't understand this at all. Go to

www.healthcheckusa.com and you can get your own thyroid tests run locally,

by your own power. It is the #II thyroid package.

Re: Hypothyroid and Post-Pregnancy

> ,

>

> What I remember because this was when I was 22 years old and now I am

> 30 is the T4 was 6.5 and the biopsy was a long neddle that they

> insert from your skin to your throat and doesn't hurt. He put me in

> Synthoid .75mcg but right now I'm in 100mcg because of the pregnancy

> and the result that I took at the beggining of this month shows that

> I have to much dose and my thyroid turn to hyper. The doctor will

> give me 2 month period because I need the extra energy and then I

> will take the blood test again and its called the Thyroid Panel with

> TSH to see the level and to low me the dose.

>

>

> Marilyn

[Guest guest]

,

The results when I was 22 years old were from my first Dr. in Puerto Rico. I have been with 3 doctors and since 2004 I move to the U.S. and the difference that I found is that the doctor in P.R. onlywanted to know the results from the T4 free. Both doctors here in the U.S. are only interested to know the results of the TSH.

When I had my first child in 2005 I remembered that my thyroid change from hypo to hyper and the doctor lower my dose from .75 to .56 (half from 112mcg) . Then about 2 month after I took the test and the TSH was 42.086. She was in shock and I remember that I was pretty bad because I couldn't even go to the gym because I felt so tired. She change the dose to 112 and then 125 one month later because the results from TSH were 3.343 and she wanted to be lower.

In the second pregnancy it was diferent because the first pregnancy I was always in .75 never change until after birth. In the second from 125 I went up to 137 and then 150 and then now to 100mcg.

So as you can see I have been in a lot of adjustments in the past 3 years.

Marilyn

[The_Thyroid_ Support_Group] Re: Hypothyroid and Post-Pregnancy> ,>> What I remember because this was when I was 22 years old and now I am> 30 is the T4 was 6.5 and the biopsy was a long neddle that they> insert from your skin to your throat and doesn't hurt. He put me in> Synthoid .75mcg but right now I'm in 100mcg because of the pregnancy> and the result that I took at the beggining of this month shows that> I have to much dose and my thyroid turn to hyper. The doctor will> give me 2 month period because I need the extra energy and then I> will take the blood test again and its called the Thyroid Panel with> TSH to see the level and to low me the dose.>>> Marilyn

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[Guest guest]

You need to go by the thyroid hormones, NOT the pituitary hormones----FREE T4 and the FREE T3.

Re: Re: Hypothyroid and Post-Pregnancy

,

The results when I was 22 years old were from my first Dr. in Puerto Rico. I have been with 3 doctors and since 2004 I move to the U.S. and the difference that I found is that the doctor in P.R. onlywanted to know the results from the T4 free. Both doctors here in the U.S. are only interested to know the results of the TSH.

When I had my first child in 2005 I remembered that my thyroid change from hypo to hyper and the doctor lower my dose from .75 to .56 (half from 112mcg) . Then about 2 month after I took the test and the TSH was 42.086. She was in shock and I remember that I was pretty bad because I couldn't even go to the gym because I felt so tired. She change the dose to 112 and then 125 one month later because the results from TSH were 3.343 and she wanted to be lower.

In the second pregnancy it was diferent because the first pregnancy I was always in .75 never change until after birth. In the second from 125 I went up to 137 and then 150 and then now to 100mcg.

So as you can see I have been in a lot of adjustments in the past 3 years.

Marilyn