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[ClandestineTX]

I know nothing about thyroids but can someone tell me what the signs would be to even be concerned that there is a problem. Can fertility issues be the only sign?

Long list here:
https://thyroid.about.com/cs/basics_starthere/a/hypochecklist.htm

I think I described it to someone else as all the symptoms are like a deck of cards - no two people will be dealt the exact same combination of them. And I've heard it called "insidious" as most of the creep up over time, so you don't realize you have a symptom, unless you're looking for it. For example, I'm in graduate school, I've been tired for YEARS. At what point was being tired from being overworked supposed to be different from "fatigue"? Except I was exhausted, bone tired, hard to get off my couch mid-day - even on break from school. Mine snuck up on me, just glad it got caught and treated.

 

[turtlemomma]

Getting close to O time for me- I think Saturday may be the day... FX!!!

Loro- I'm so sorry you've had such a rough time of it this cycle. Are there any other options you havent tried to get your cycles regulated?

Nats- so sorry! I can't imagine going through what you have! tons and tons of hugs!

Tower- Stupid witch! Definitely talk to your doctor and try to get a blood work up- it could be helpful to rule out possible problems...

Liz- The fact that you are O'ing on your own gives me hope! If I don't make it this cycle I'm going off the clomid and am really hoping I can be so lucky!

 

[ciz]

hello. Ill be testing on the 11th unless af arrives. yesterday I was having sharp pains around uterus area which came on and off during the day. today I was alittle crampy but nowhere near like yesterday. constantly hungry, cant seem to satisfy my belly and bit of stuffy nose. anyone else having these?

 

[allforthegirl]

hello. Ill be testing on the 11th unless af arrives. yesterday I was having sharp pains around uterus area which came on and off during the day. today I was alittle crampy but nowhere near like yesterday. constantly hungry, cant seem to satisfy my belly and bit of stuffy nose. anyone else having these?

I did last cycle too!! I did more research and found out they are the sae symptoms of PMS.... and AF came too. so the best way to say that it is a sign is if it different from all the other cycles... for me last cycle was our first so I really had nothing to go on. GL

 

[ciz]

i dont usually cramp this early. its usually sore boobs and cramps on the day af is about to show, and constantly hungry is new too lol. saying this my period hasnt shown since oct 31st. I tested up to week before christmas and been neg. im sure I ovulated around christmas day or boxing day from the ewcm showing weekend before.

 

[Tower6]

My mom lost 9 babies at up to 4 months because I thyroid. I will start a blog about how insane of stories I have! Thyroid and non related. I also wanted to say that I just took my temp to see what my body does and this is after running errands, cooking,cleaning and doing 4 kids all morning and temp is 97.59!!! Is that normal for a non resting temp? I feel so lost tofay

 

[turtlemomma]

Tower- I have very low temps and my thyroid is fine... That being said, I think you should call your doc. Get the work up sooner than later! I just had a simple blood draw and it took literally a minute. If it runs in your family it could be worth looking into.

 

[ClandestineTX]

My mom lost 9 babies at up to 4 months because I thyroid. I will start a blog about how insane of stories I have! Thyroid and non related. I also wanted to say that I just took my temp to see what my body does and this is after running errands, cooking,cleaning and doing 4 kids all morning and temp is 97.59!!! Is that normal for a non resting temp? I feel so lost tofay

Did you know about those losses before now???

Looked this up for someone else last week:

Q: What are average BBTs?

A: The average range of BBTs is between 97.0-97.7 Fahrenheit (36.11-36.5 Celsius) before ovulation and 97.7-99.0 Fahrenheit (36.5-37.22 Celsius) after ovulation. Ideally, a woman’s temperature will not bounce around more than .5 degrees in the follicular phase and will stay above the coverline during the luteal phase.

Q: My BBTs are lower/higher than average, what does this mean?

A: Either case warrants checking your thyroid. Low BBTs are often a sign of hypothyroid which can cause some fertility and pregnancy problems. Excessively high temperatures may indicate hyperthyroid.

Source: https://www.babymad.com/index.php?Itemid=25&id=11&option=com_content&task=view

Tower- I have very low temps and my thyroid is fine... That being said, I think you should call your doc. Get the work up sooner than later! I just had a simple blood draw and it took literally a minute. If it runs in your family it could be worth looking into.

I multi-quoted this into the same message, to say that my thyroid is barely functional, so gets a lot of external help from medication, and my current levels are better than most with healthy thyroids... and my temps are consistently below the stated ranges, above. So for Tower and anyone else reading this, who may now be worried about their thyroids... just the lower-ish temps don't mean there IS a problem, but if you have weird temps and irregular cycles or other symptoms, it may be worth having the bloods run - just to be on the safe side - not trying to incite panic here!

 

[ClandestineTX]

hello. Ill be testing on the 11th unless af arrives. yesterday I was having sharp pains around uterus area which came on and off during the day. today I was alittle crampy but nowhere near like yesterday. constantly hungry, cant seem to satisfy my belly and bit of stuffy nose. anyone else having these?

Since last night, I've started getting starved every few hours. Usually have to force myself to eat breakfast and this morning got up at 430 am and was starving, despite going out for a rather large dinner last night! Had larger breakfast than usual and starving again, a few hours later! I think it's the joy of progesterone, but high progesterone means definite ovulation... just no way to tell if it's pregnancy or PMS until we see a BFP.

 

[HWPG]

cland, you are so close! should know any day...

 

[luna_19]

oh nats I'm so sorry for your loss

to tower and loro too

 

[Tower6]

My mom has said for years that I need to be checked. My entire family
Has issues but I was conceiving without trying so I never thought of it as ttc issues. I will fill
U all in on a few things..

I do have 3 daughters as most or all of you know and I was not trying with any of them. However after eacb one I had an iud and then removed it to start trying but before we could I was already pregnant( so within days of removal, literally) so on the third try we wanted to attempt to have a boy by timing conception to O and all that. When I went into have my iud remover the end of that nov. I made my apt for dec 19 to get the all clear on O and timing. To my surprise, when I went I to that apt I found out that I was already a few weeks pregnant! So my dr looked at my chart and said "wow had you not concieved all 3 times on ur own you would be TEXTBOOK INFERTILITY" I was like whaaaaat? Really?!?! I mean this is being told to a girl from a family of 13, 7 of them being girls whom all laugh about how we could get pregnant just washing our undies with our hubbies LOL now come to find out that I am "technically" infertile. I was shocked but also not too worried about it because clearly I was having my third baby!
So like I said I am in the line up of 13 kids. 7 girls 6 boys, but the boys (abd only
2 girls) are all half. So just different dads. Additional to 13 babies my
Mom miscarried 9 times!!! So we have all been informed and listened a lot A LOT to my
Mom about natural planning and preventing and all that ( i know this sounds insane with how unknowledgeable I seem this go round) but I really have breathed this my whole
Life. Anyway I got pregnant with each child before I should have even been able to start trying, so the last day of my period when it was almost done I had sex thinking I was in that safe zone and nowhere near O. Come to find out, 2 weeks later when I wanted to try, we were pregnant. Almost impossible. So how now am I having this short lp? I am
Utterly confused! We did try the last day of my last cycles just incase I remember right about why the dr said it was that I was textbook unable to conceive. I put in a call today to see if there charts show why it was that she had said that in hopes that I can figure it out.
Couple ideas I have-
•Different hubby this time.. But we had his SA done and they said all is fine, but I just asked for a copy of the panel because what they called fine was way different than numbers I've seen u girls call normal. So I'm worried now.
•iud this time was 5 1/2 years, way longer than before
•thyroid issues maybe progressing since then?


Idk if my chart shows all the baby dancing we've done but it seems nearly impossible
To have missed it. It could be too short of an lp not not if I O early like I think I remember. Then again does an OPK turn pos even of u O and don't drop an egg? So not really O? I got positives for 7 days after first one. But never thought to take it so early (will this time
Tho!) also, I had total O cm way before the test turned pos and the days that it did were not cm correct at all. But it said pos so we bd.


Anyone have any input or feedback? I am
Open to all info you may have and I think I'll start a journal to post so many things I have had happen, or my mom, sisters,family ect that I think may be helpful in helping you help me!
Thnxx ladies for takin time to read and help you are all amazing! I have all of us iny prayers and thoughts daily! Once we all get our we will need a little family reunion to celebrate all these world wide journeys!

 

[Tower6]

My mom lost 9 babies at up to 4 months because I thyroid. I will start a blog about how insane of stories I have! Thyroid and non related. I also wanted to say that I just took my temp to see what my body does and this is after running errands, cooking,cleaning and doing 4 kids all morning and temp is 97.59!!! Is that normal for a non resting temp? I feel so lost tofay

Did you know about those losses before now???

Looked this up for someone else last week:

Q: What are average BBTs?

A: The average range of BBTs is between 97.0-97.7 Fahrenheit (36.11-36.5 Celsius) before ovulation and 97.7-99.0 Fahrenheit (36.5-37.22 Celsius) after ovulation. Ideally, a woman’s temperature will not bounce around more than .5 degrees in the follicular phase and will stay above the coverline during the luteal phase.

Q: My BBTs are lower/higher than average, what does this mean?

A: Either case warrants checking your thyroid. Low BBTs are often a sign of hypothyroid which can cause some fertility and pregnancy problems. Excessively high temperatures may indicate hyperthyroid.

Source: https://www.babymad.com/index.php?Itemid=25&id=11&option=com_content&task=view

Tower- I have very low temps and my thyroid is fine... That being said, I think you should call your doc. Get the work up sooner than later! I just had a simple blood draw and it took literally a minute. If it runs in your family it could be worth looking into.

I multi-quoted this into the same message, to say that my thyroid is barely functional, so gets a lot of external help from medication, and my current levels are better than most with healthy thyroids... and my temps are consistently below the stated ranges, above. So for Tower and anyone else reading this, who may now be worried about their thyroids... just the lower-ish temps don't mean there IS a problem, but if you have weird temps and irregular cycles or other symptoms, it may be worth having the bloods run - just to be on the safe side - not trying to incite panic here!

Oh yes we are a huge family I knew of all her cycles and problems and losses. We were pregnant twice together but she at the time
Didn't know she had thyroid issues as
She doesn't believe in dr's. But in her 40's and after so many losses she fell pregnant and didn't want to be without a dr and being
So high risk. Her pregnancy at 45 bled all 4 months straight but my
Lil sis was just fine. That's when my
Mom started getting treated and I have SO SO SO many symptoms that I never knew were symptoms till lately. I thought they were just family
Traits.

 

[Tower6]

Sorry for the wierd spacing! iPhone's drive me nuts!!!

 

[lizlovelust]

hopeforbfp, yea itll be my second cycle to O on my own!

 

[AmaryllisRed]

Ciz, I've been having similar symptoms... the stuffy/runny nose, cramping...
I learned from last bfp that my pms and pregnancy symptoms are basically the same. So only time will tell...

 

[allforthegirl]

Ciz, I've been having similar symptoms... the stuffy/runny nose, cramping...
I learned from last bfp that my pms and pregnancy symptoms are basically the same. So only time will tell...

You and me both..... Though I should know this..... the 400 BFN I have gotten yet I was positive that I was.... After having a baby I think I just fugured this is it.... NOT!! Anywyas it doesn't make it any easier when you are trying either... now I am looking at signs I never did before. And since this is only C#2 that we are trying I don't have much to go on... my FX for you GL

 

[ClandestineTX]

My mom has said for years that I need to be checked. My entire family
Has issues but I was conceiving without trying so I never thought of it as ttc issues. I will fill
U all in on a few things..

I do have 3 daughters as most or all of you know and I was not trying with any of them. However after eacb one I had an iud and then removed it to start trying but before we could I was already pregnant( so within days of removal, literally) so on the third try we wanted to attempt to have a boy by timing conception to O and all that. When I went into have my iud remover the end of that nov. I made my apt for dec 19 to get the all clear on O and timing. To my surprise, when I went I to that apt I found out that I was already a few weeks pregnant! So my dr looked at my chart and said "wow had you not concieved all 3 times on ur own you would be TEXTBOOK INFERTILITY" I was like whaaaaat? Really?!?! I mean this is being told to a girl from a family of 13, 7 of them being girls whom all laugh about how we could get pregnant just washing our undies with our hubbies LOL now come to find out that I am "technically" infertile. I was shocked but also not too worried about it because clearly I was having my third baby!
So like I said I am in the line up of 13 kids. 7 girls 6 boys, but the boys (abd only
2 girls) are all half. So just different dads. Additional to 13 babies my
Mom miscarried 9 times!!! So we have all been informed and listened a lot A LOT to my
Mom about natural planning and preventing and all that ( i know this sounds insane with how unknowledgeable I seem this go round) but I really have breathed this my whole
Life. Anyway I got pregnant with each child before I should have even been able to start trying, so the last day of my period when it was almost done I had sex thinking I was in that safe zone and nowhere near O. Come to find out, 2 weeks later when I wanted to try, we were pregnant. Almost impossible. So how now am I having this short lp? I am
Utterly confused! We did try the last day of my last cycles just incase I remember right about why the dr said it was that I was textbook unable to conceive. I put in a call today to see if there charts show why it was that she had said that in hopes that I can figure it out.
Couple ideas I have-
•Different hubby this time.. But we had his SA done and they said all is fine, but I just asked for a copy of the panel because what they called fine was way different than numbers I've seen u girls call normal. So I'm worried now.
•iud this time was 5 1/2 years, way longer than before
•thyroid issues maybe progressing since then?


Idk if my chart shows all the baby dancing we've done but it seems nearly impossible
To have missed it. It could be too short of an lp not not if I O early like I think I remember. Then again does an OPK turn pos even of u O and don't drop an egg? So not really O? I got positives for 7 days after first one. But never thought to take it so early (will this time
Tho!) also, I had total O cm way before the test turned pos and the days that it did were not cm correct at all. But it said pos so we bd.


Anyone have any input or feedback? I am
Open to all info you may have and I think I'll start a journal to post so many things I have had happen, or my mom, sisters,family ect that I think may be helpful in helping you help me!
Thnxx ladies for takin time to read and help you are all amazing! I have all of us iny prayers and thoughts daily! Once we all get our we will need a little family reunion to celebrate all these world wide journeys!

That's crazy! My grandma was the oldest of 9 and my dad, the oldest of 5, but that seemed like too many to me (or rather, for me)! Please update us when you start the journal, I would love to read more, as it's very interesting. Please also keep us posted on your cycle and testing for thyroid, I'm just curious now (or maybe even a little nosy). Gotta distract myself with something to keep my mind of missing cycle start and BFNs!

 

[Cristeena]

TOWER, thanks for sharing! Thats a LOT of siblings! I dont know if I could handle that, as my brother was quite enough.

GL with everything

 

[AmaryllisRed]

I might test tomorrow. Just because. Peesticks are for peeing on, right? Who am I to keep them from their destiny?