URGENT- Nuclear Scan and Breastfeeding

[EJE]

I managed to get 80mls this morning, so now have 325mls. Yey

Thanks Divvy for the help. Noidea how much he drinks each feed tough. Never really worried about it until now that I have to work it out.

Not feeling so good today, so glad test is ony two more sleeps away, and I can start to fix whatever is going wrong.

[EJE]

I got up at 3am this morning, and pumped 135mls in 20 minutes!! I got another 65mls this morning, and am waiting to express later today. Almost got enough for 24hours. Am hoping to be as succesful tomorrow morning at 3am.

[Janie]

Oh yay EJE, I'm so excited it worked for you! Worth getting up in the middle of the night for, hey hun

[lilima]

Well done!~!

[EJE]

Was 100% worth getting up for. If I manage to get the same again tomorrow morning at 3am and 6am, I should have between 800-850mls. So should be enough. Am going to give him extra long feeds at 6.30am and 8.30am to get him through.

Thanks everyone for your help and support

[paradise lost]

Brilliant news EJE! You're going great guns with the pump! Pun intended!

Best of luck with the scan hun, and whatever they advise as treatment, call Rodney again to discuss it. Some of the anti-thyroid meds you can't BF with but there ARE one's you can take while you're still nursing.

Good good luck!

Bx

[EJE]

Hi everyone. Quick update- scan was done and luckily I don't have graves disease. I do however have postpartum thyroiditis. Essentially my thyroid is leaking thyroxine. My Endocronologist said he has never had or heard of a patient with an underactive thryroid before giving birth then developing thyroiditis. He said he had only had patients who had no previous thyroid problems give birth and then develop it. He said hopefully should all resolve in the next two months or so, and will go back to having an underactive thyroid, and restart medicines for that then. The medicines that he can put me on in the meantime go through in BF, so best just to try and ride this thing out. Thanks heaps everyone for your support and help. Going to pump now before I go to bed to keep up that supply!!