Gosh hoobley,
What a mine field. your poor sister, no doubt the hypothyroid is not helping her weight at all, and then the weight contributes to all those other problems. She's probably pretty depressed about it all too. Another auto immune condition.

Good on you for keeping yourself in good shape, wow that is such a committment. its much harder for us to get it off. I can do it if I try really hard, but it is not much fun. Mary Shomon's diet book is quite good, I assume you've seem her website. I found her books more helpful to be honest. Same kind of diet for PCOS as far as I can tell.

I think it would take a lot to get you into hyper, but yes the scary side is scary. You probably know more about it than me or than the GP at this point! I hope the new GP works out.

I would self medicate to get weight off, and to give myself best chance of another baby, to get to TSH between 1 and 2, but then I'm pretty bolshy now! I have started to go to different docs to try to get a few that will do it my way. I try very hard to listen to them and not tell them what to do, but as you can probably tell that is quite difficult for me!!!

I think I'm about 28-29BMI, I am hoping that my new tsh levels will help with this over the next few years. IVF is no time to diet, I eat pretty healthy, but bit too much sugar and choc and need to get back to exercise.

Most GP's don't get it, they have hardly any training in endocrinology, and really don't understand putting on weight for no reason, or the devastation of miscarriage, unless it has happened to them, and the range recomendations certainly aren't helping. Might as well go on the list to see an endo, or even ring a few and get on a few waiting lists now, you might get a sympathetic secretary/nurse who can put you up the list, plenty of them have problems too!! Anyway at least if you are on a list it will come around eventually, you can then decide whether to go or not. Are there any private endos that you can pay to see? Anyway, I feel very lucky to have found a good endo through one of girls at mother group, she had a terrible one first. Perhaps you should fly to Aus for a holiday and come and see mine!!! He even gives us a few blood test srcipts and says just ring him when do it so he can ring back to advise medication change. how good is that!

I do get arthritic sort of pains in my feet and a little twinge elbows and knees, but not hypo at the moment, might be just cause I've been wearing thongs (flip flops) for last 2 months! I also had plantar fasciitis (sp?) in my feet before Dx.

Gosh I'm so bossy!!! Just ask me, I'll tell you what to do!

hey I just noticed our DD's are same age!!