I am trying to plan ahead and am really struggling. I found my hypothyroidism by accident in a blood test to check health before trying for a baby. I know I need to wait to conceive until my levels are healthy again and have Bern going through discussions for osame a people's 'recovery' times. However, most I have found seem to be much more level numbers than mine so I don't know what to expect... My t3 and t4 were basically non existant (thyroid hascompletely failed) tand my tsh was 70.8. I have gone on 100mcgs of thyroxin and am due for my first blood test in a week. So far it's been three weeks and I feel amazing by comparison!
However, most people seem to only change a few points in a month... If I do that then it will take me years to get back into normal range. So as much as I know everyone is different I was just wondering if anyone else with simmilar figures had gone through the same and how long it took for your levels to be safe again?
I would really love to start a family but was told until my levels are better it would be disastrous at the moment...
Hello
I am Christine the person who started this line of discussion initially. I cannot help with your levels or how long it will take to get it sorted unfortunately. However I just want to let you know that if you do get pregnant the minute you find out you need to have your levels monitered weekly and will probably have to up whatever dose you are taking. My daughter in law had 7 pregnancies and each time the baby died because no one (including the consultants) EVER told her this.
It was only because my own T3 had gone haywire and I was researching that I found information out that would possible help her. She got pregnant again and I managed to get her a private appt with a specialist who deals in underactive thyroid preganancies Dr Van Der Pump in London. He was amazing. All she needed to do was double her thyroid medication and take an aspirin every day.
Apparently when you get preganant the baby has no means of producing it's own thyroid hormone so takes the mothers. If the dosage isn't right on your medication the baby doesn't get enough and dies. There was also some metion of bloode vessels to the baby clotting so that is why the aspirin is needed.
You really need to monitor this extremely vigilantly and don't take no for an answer. You need bloods done EVERY WEEK at least for the first 14 weeks.
Guess what !!! My daughter in law is due to give birth to her first baby on 26th March. In our eyes a miracle. Good luck, really hope you are successful.
Christine
Boy, that sounds like severe hypothyroidism! I've needed a very high dose of T3 and T4 in order to get more normal blood tests, but I think that I began to normalize pretty quickly, once I was on medication. Hard to remember since it's been six or seven years, but as I recall, my levels were more normal by the next blood test just a few weeks later. I think that it may take a little longer than that to feel optimal, but I think that the blood levels normalize pretty quickly. Good luck! --Suzanne
Hi Brianalily, if you are trying to get pregnant you should be under a specialist endocrinologist to protect the life of the phoetus. Keep a note of your symptoms and insist on seeing a specialist. The levels of negligence in relation to pregnancy and thyroid problems is scandalous.