Anyone had IBS or an Overactive Thyroid?

[QCaz]

Hi,
I'm about 6 weeks with my 1st. While my brain is still ping-ponging around my skull - it keeps throwing up 2 things most often.. & I don't know which one (if either) I should be worried about!

Firstly in my day-to-day life I have IBS and all of its wonderful and multi-coloured symptoms. Ranging from "Hey, I feel like a normal person!" To "OMG, Kill me, kill me now." I have just started seeing a new nutritional doctor (quite by accident, she was the GP who I went to see to confirm my BFP) who thinks she can help me out, with diet etc. But she diddnt seem to have much info for me about what I could expect with the next nine months or so.. Like, I've lived with this for a few years now and I don't really feel her confidence that with a new diet she can make a 98% improvement in my normal day to day condition let alone adding a pregnancy into the mix..

Any tips/ideas/helpfulness?

Also, my Thyroid. The GP ALSO thinks she can make this a non-issue through changing my diet. (I wish I had her confidence) It has been in remission for about 10 years, and the specialist said in my last visit that the only time I would ever need to really be concerned is if I got preggers. Which I am. When I was sick with this, I had lost HEAPS of weight (my teachers at school thought I was anorexic or bulimic) and I could hardly sleep at all but was so tired all the time.
Being in the early weeks, I read that turning into a zombie is normal. But how about a zombie that also has trouble sleeping? Anyone else had experience with this? again, am I worried about nothing?

Just to clarrify: I live in a VERY remote part of the world. The GP I'm talking about is an hour and a half's drive down a 4WD track. The nearest town with specialists etc is about 4 and a half hours drive away. I havnt even had my first blood tests taken yet as I have to wait until Monday when the clinic will do it and they can pop the tests on the plane to town for, you know, testing. So just popping in to check up on these things is pretty difficult.

Thanks for your time ladies, I appreciate ANY advice you have!
QCaz

[Danielle_NZ]

Sorry I don't have any advice just wanted to let you know your not alone in the unknown pregnancy is so different from person to person pregnancy to pregnancy. For me my IBS (or what they believe I suffer from) only rears it's ugly head when I was pregnant until recently.

I hope you can get some advice from others in the know.

[lee09]

I have IBS. Before pregnancy it was triggered by certain foods as well as extreme stress/anxiety. I didn't have any problems with it during pregnancy, in fact I had no symptoms at all, and since I've had the baby I've been able to drink coffee again - yay!

[Babyluv]

I had shocking IBS for yrs and all symptoms subsided whilst I was pregnant, here's hoping the same thing happens for you
The symptoms have come back however but nowhere near as severly as they were.

[Ladylove]

I had a period of crippling IBS early last year. It was definitely stress related as I was in a painful period of long term TCC. A few months later I fell spontaneously pregnant and all IBS cleared up completely including reactions to my trigger foods. IBS does clear up for a lot of pregnant women- I HOPE the same happens to you!

[QCaz]

Thanks for your support & advice gals, I do appreciate it!

I had read that IBS can clear up with pregnancy, but it kinda sounded too good to be true: What? I get a baby AND I can eat grapes? OMG! Paradise! (Its strange, I never thought I liked grapes that much until they started making me sick.. 3 years grapeless and I just about cry when I walk past them in the veggie aisle! Honestly, of all the things I've given up.. weird hey?)

Mine is also very closely linked to stress, so I guess as long as I can be a healthy happy mumma it should all work out ok?