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[quote=Anonymous]During my first pregnancy, they found that my thyroid levels were off but I was 34 weeks and my obs didn’t want to medicate me that late in the game. They told me that it does happen and usually levels go back to normal after delivery. (This was almost 18 years ago and I think thinking on this has changed since then)

I had my child and was so stressed out and wrapped up in the challenges of it all that I didn’t go to see my regular doc at 6 weeks postpartum like I had been told. I finally got around to it at about 4 months and they discovered that my thyroid levels were 40+, whereas normal is between 1 and 3? So, yeah, not good. At that point, they diagnosed me with postpartum thyroiditis and started me on synthroid.

Symptoms persisted, though, and I eventually went to see an endocrinologist, who discovered my GP had been treating me to the high side of normal and hadn’t checked my vitamin D. He eventually diagnosed me with Hashimotos and Hypothyroidism. My symptoms actually presented more as depression than just exhaustion. I have been seeing an endocrinologist ever since for my synthroid management, including through my second pregnancy, and take a high dose vitamin D supplement.

Thyroid issues are very common among postpartum women and symptoms are very similar to sleep deprivation. They really should test all women for thyroid problems at just about any doc appt, but especially during and after pregnancy.[/quote]

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