Anyone experienced faint lines every month but not pg?

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Every month for 3 months now I have gotten faint lines on IC tests from about 6dpo til after AF arrives. I'm wondering if its the tests? I haven't gotten anything on frer or any other tests.

Levels do go up and down, but antibodies plus your previous TSH being higher shows auto Immune disease and although you will have patches where your TSH drops a bit, the overall trajectory will be your thyroid function getting weaker over time. I spent ten years going back and forth to several different GPs, in all that time nobody tested me for antibodies, and I was fobbed off with “fine” even though I know my levels were not fine. Even when pregnant with a TSH of 9, I was fobbed off and didn’t get medicated until I had been really unwell for a year, unable to walk up a hill without my heart going crazy, sitting about flat and exhausted all the time. I was only taken seriously and put on meds after a random thyroid test when I fell and passed out. My TSH then was almost 30.
So don’t be fobbed off, a good GP should be looking at how you feel as well as your levels.

Thanks for this @SirVixofVixHall I will push on. I'm sorry to hear you were so unwell with it, I can only imagine how awful you felt. Are you doing ok now?

Well I do still really struggle with fatigue, up and down. My vitamin D was almost nothing so I am trying to improve that. According to my dc’s doctor ( she has the same thing) auto immune disease is tiring in and of itself. I am definitely better than I was before thyroxine supplementation though, and not all people with thyroid disease feel so fatigued, I have four friends with it too, and we all vary. I find diet makes a difference, keeping off sugar and starchy carbs, but when I am in a v tired patch, which I am now, it is perversely difficult to stick to that as being tired also makes me crave sugar.
I also have coeliac disease and it is worth asking them to check for that when you next have bloods done as they can go together, and you can have no obvious symptoms.
Your adrenals take up the slack when your thyroid is failing, so I think my ten years of not being helped has affected my whole system and makes me more prone to exhaustion, so I am v keen for other women to get helped speedily. My Mum took over twenty years to get a diagnosis as her GP totally dismissed her tiredness, low mood and weight gain.

@SirVixofVixHall So much of what you've said resonates with me. I've always been a 'tired' person but since I had my son its ridiculous. I can sleep 11 hours a night and still need a nap during the day. Sugar makes it worse, carbs make it worse. I've also got low vitD and lowB12, which I'm working on.

It is annoyingly difficult to stick to a diet that helps ! I try and limit sweets and refined carbs to weekends only, but it is hard.