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Underactive Thyroid

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Pupness · 25/05/2005 09:27

Hi Mumsnet - I had been feeling extremely tired and just put it down to being a new mum. But DS was six months! So had some blood test done and was told last week that my thyroid is running very low and that I must start Thyroxin straight away. It started last Thursday and initially felt a lot better but today I have been feeling v down which is just not me and I am beginning to get v anxious about not giving the little one my best. My memory is awful too. Has anyone experienced this - feel like I'm on an emotional roller coaster and trying too hard to be the perfect mum but just feel like sleeping all the time.

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deckthehillswithboughsofmummy · 04/12/2005 09:48

My thyroid is hypo and I am on 125mcg thyroxine/day. All they would tell me is that if I took ad's it would cuase a lot of problems with my other meds later on. I am only on the thyroxine so can only assume that it is all related.

Feeling realy shit so low it is unbelievable. The last time I felt this low was when I was waiting for a diagnosis.

Not sure how the councelling is going to help though. We have apparently ruled out thyroid causeing me to feel like this because my last lot of results came back slightly higher than normal and my dosage has been reduced from 150 to 125.

puddle · 04/12/2005 10:01

Can I crash this thread to ask about symptoms? In addition to quite a few of the syptoms listed early on in this thread I have got breathlessness along with feeling like I have a lump in my throat - has anyone else had this?

I'm planning to go back to he doctors this week to ask about it.

Blondeinlondon · 04/12/2005 12:26

deck - Thyroxine increases the effect of tricyclic antidepressants but I can't see why that should mean you can't take ADs.
Do you consider your doc competent? Do you think he could have been looking at someone else's notes?
When does your counselling start?

Blondeinlondon · 04/12/2005 12:28

Puddle - you might have a Goitre (Swelling of the Thyroid) . No personal experience of this though. Best to see your doc
can't do links today sorry
www.patient.co.uk/showdoc/27000670/

deckthehillswithboughsofmummy · 04/12/2005 20:17

been two weeks now and i am still waiting for an appointment. did wonder about her competency when she tried to prescribe an ad that was not safe for bf. when i queried it she told me that it was such a low dosage everything would be ok! i refused to take them and a couple of weeks later she went on about ad's and thyroid.

Blondeinlondon · 13/12/2005 21:35

how are you getting on? any sign of an appt?

Passionflowerinapeartree · 13/12/2005 21:55

Have belatedly found this thread. I have it too, diagnosed 7 years ago am on 150mcg.

deckthehillswithboughsofmummy · 18/12/2005 21:34

yeah, they finally sent me one out the first session is on Tuesday morning.

Wish me luck as I have to take the baby with me. Have managed to get care organised for the three year old though as I really don't want to her with me as she would be a)one huge distraction, b)she's at that age where she repeats stuff at inconvenient moments!!!

wishfulthinking · 19/12/2005 14:54

Please may I join this thread too? I've read (whilst at work!) most of this thread. I appear to have a lot of the symtoms mentioned, but in particular, a terrible, raging thirst nearly 24/7. I popped along to the chemist for a diabetes test and was 0.01 off of being told to go to the doctor. Advised to leave it a while and then reveiw. No change so went to the docs and had a blood test; told to give it 5 days before ringing for the results; they rang back the next morning to say I had abnormalities (!!??) in my blood and have to go back for more tests this Wednesday. I came onto this thread by accident but having read the threads I feel like I'm reading about myself. Anyone else suffer from the thirst-thing? Thanks

deckthehillswithboughsofmummy · 19/12/2005 16:45

you are not alone I seem to get very thirsty, it's not a constant thing for me though.

plantpot · 20/12/2005 18:37

i have an underactive thyroid and take 150mgs of thyrxin but need to arange another blood test as im staring to have symptoms again

mads1 · 26/12/2005 20:43

Is it possible for symptoms to come back? I've been on the med for about 3 months and was starting to feel better but now they are coming back. Can the symptoms go up and down? Any one else feel like this? Do I see the doc to get checked again or wait for the med to kick in again?

Passionflowerinapeartree · 26/12/2005 21:09

Yep, you need to arrange another blood test to check your levels. It takes a while to get eveything settled and the thyroxin you have been taking may have caused your thyroid to be even more underactive. See your gp asap.

mads1 · 27/12/2005 10:01

Thanks passionflower....
Shall arrange a blood test. I have one booked for feb but probably best to go sooner.

feastofsteven · 27/12/2005 10:16

my mum and gran both had/have underactive thyroid- and now I've started falling asleep on people's settees of an afternoon . Is it worth me asking my doctor to test me for underactive thyroid, or am I just being a bit of a nut?

Passionflowerinapeartree · 27/12/2005 11:17

It ia a simple blood test, go and make the appointment.

mummyhill · 29/12/2005 21:06

Feastofstephen - Agree with passionflower go get the test done it is better to find out especially as it runs in the family. The sooner you get a diagnosis the sooner you get treatment and start to feel better.

honneybunny · 04/01/2006 17:44

Hi, just found this thread by chance, am so happy !
I was daignosed hypothyroid 5 months after borth of ds1 (hashimoto's? i have anti-thyroid peroxidase antibodies). Like some of you, if felt i just wasn't coping well with being a new mum: tired, depressed, no concentation span whatsoever, not losing any of my pregnancy weight, etc. now i have just had ds2, and my question is about him/ds1:
on friday i have to go to an antenatal screening appt. to check ds2 T3/T4/TSH levels. Does anyone of you have experience with db's with hypothyroidism??? And do you think I should have ds1 tested as well??? I started piling on the pounds way before I got pregnant with ds1, so I thought I might have been hypothyroid before... Also, how about my medication: does that need to be adjusted and when? I went up from 75 to 100mcgs during the pregnancy.

Blondeinlondon · 04/01/2006 17:51

Hello
The heel prick check at birth checks babies for thyroid problems
You should have your levels checked every 6mths - one year unless you are pg in which case it should be more frequent

How old are your boys?

honneybunny · 05/01/2006 17:22

hi BIL
ds1 is 2 years old, ds2 is 3 weeks tomorrow. Both had guthrie test done (this checks for congenital hypothyroidism =genetic) ds1 was fine, ds2 results not back yet. ds2 had cord blood taken to test for autoantibodies which could have crossed the placenta to attack his thyroid. He will have t3/t4/tsh test tomorrow.

Blondeinlondon · 05/01/2006 18:15

good luck, will you have to wait long for the results

mummyhill · 08/01/2006 11:08

DD had tests till she was 2 as her results kept comming back with slight anolilies but she is fine now and my ds's results came back fine so i hope your children will be ok. Girls are more likely to have problems than boys though according to our pead.

mummyhill · 08/01/2006 11:08

anomilies

honneybunny · 08/01/2006 15:02

i wonder why that is mummyhill.. (?)
had the appt with lovely paed in hospital today. she took some blood for t3/t4/tsh and also some for antibodies. from looking at ds2 she said he probably will be completely fine, as he feeds v.well, puts on weight like there's no tomorrow, and is v.alert. results for t3/t4/tsh will be in some time next week, and antibodies they will only do if t3/t4/tsh come back abnormal. so fortunately we don't have to wait long at all.
thanks for your reactions, mummyhill and blondeinlondon!

Normsnockers · 11/01/2006 12:02

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