Endocrine antenatal clinic

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Hi all, first timer here. I've been sent a letter saying that I need to go to the above clinic on the day of my 12 week scan.

Anyone got any experience of this? My main question is does this mean I am going to be high risk? Also, if you also had this, what was the treatment and did it impact your pregnancy/baby?

Thanks in advance xxx

I was under the endocrine antenatal consultant due to an over active thyroid. Saw him and an obstetrician once and from then on had monthly blood tests and a telephone call with him to discuss but it was always fine. Saw postnatally and continued to have blood tests for a few months as my thyroid was expected to be unstable which it was and I went rather overactive when my son was about 5/6 months old.

All fine though.

Congratulations on your pregnancy.

Mine is under active.

Thank you for your reply xx

I am under active and 22 wks, I have blood tests every 4 weeks then I phone call to tell me to up my meditation if needed. My consultant discharged me last week and is leaving me to be monitored by the nursing team

I have since had my thyroid removed so am on a full replacement dose of thyroxine. Consultant told me if I were to get pregnant again the dose would need increasing by around 15% and would need monitoring with blood tests again.

I have an underactive thyroid. Last pregnancy I was consultant -led until 34 weeks when the registrar signed me off as my levels had been steady for a good while.

So it doesn't mean you'll be classed as high risk.

I also found that the endocrine clinic was mainly the diabetic clinic and they weren't very concerned with underactive thyroids! Regular bloods and the occasional adjustment of meds.

I’m not in the UK but I have an under active thyroid and so just have my bloods done every month. It doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll be classed as high risk though.