I got more test results back today and it looks like I have Graves Disease. I have to have an ultrasound to check the size of my thyroid and make sure there are no growths or anything. Off to a specialist in May, unfortunately I couldn't get an appointment sooner but that's to be expected with specialists I guess. My GP said that the specialist will either put me on some tablets or radioactive iodine or might recommend surgery to remove the thyroid leaving me on thyroid hormone replacement tablets for the rest of my life.

Unfortunately this means that unless I have the surgery I'll have to put off having a baby until 6 months after I'm finished whatever treatment I have and I could be on treatment for 12-24 months! Not overly deverstated about that at the moment, but we were planning to start TTC#2 next year so might be a bit sad later.

Not good to hear, Be careful when they give you that scan to check nodule, as they will give you contrast and that will upset your thyroid and may send you out of whack to.. Be extreamly careful with RAI especially with graves disease as graves disease can effect your eyes, i cant have RAI as i ended up with the thyroid eye disease from graves disease, if i had it my eyes would be buldging out of my eye sockets for the rest of my life. As for TTC #2, I'd reccomend staying HYPER-thyroid having PTU and just getting your levels in whack, wait till ur down to 1 pill a day then TTC, Thats what i did now preggers 14 weeks, still on PTU to.. Ive heard some people who go HYPO- thyroid need to take large amounts of thyroxine to maintain a preg, up to 60% more.. so do some research to see what suits you best. Hyper is easier to maintain through out pregnancy, also diet, also symptoms, have you heard about hashimoto disease when people have RAI or surgery they get this..? one of the reasons y i havent done anything, but u could be lucky, i have a lil group and we all got either hypo or hyper so its amazing what your do learn from it and especially what doctors do, they just have a set routine, diagnosed, scan, RAI or removal, they set time limits, but dont let a doc push as they never tell you the full story - oh and make sure ur doc has started you on thyroid meds, the sooner the better, the longer you leave it the worse the symptoms will get...