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| Wed, 02-07-2007 - 6:59pm |
Not sure if you can help me out or not. But here is my history.
Nov 2001; This was a year after having my third child and I went into my yearly exam and asked for a thyroid test. I have a strong family history of thyroid problems. They checked it and it was at 13 so they put me on 50mcg synthroid.
May 2004: we were ttc our fourth for about a year and I went in and asked to have it checked. I don't remember the results but it was fine. I finally got pg in July 2004.
Dec 2005; I was pregnant with our fifth child and they checked it in the 1st Trimester and it was low so they upped my synthroid to 75mcg. Then they rechecked it in the 2 Trimester and it was fine.
I have not had it checked since and for some reason didn't check it at my 6week pp checkup.
We are ttc our sixth and have not used any bc since having Alex on July 2nd. I have been charting these last four months and we have been timing everything good. But just wondering if my thryoid could be a problem ttc again. I am ovulating late in my cycle and have a short luteal phase. Could the thyroid be the cause?
I made an appt to get it checked and that is on tuesday, but thought I would see if anyone knew anything on ttc and hypothryoidism.
Also what kind of things should I ask about my thryoid? I think they really have only checked tsh. I think once they checked the t4, but that has been it. What is a full workup on the thyroid and why does it all have to be done?
Thank you so much!!

















Hi cnmaml,
Welcome to our board.
From what I understand, the full thyroid panel of tests would include the TSH, T3, T4 and antibody levels.