Hi, this is my first post, actually it's my second, but I was in such a flap yesterday I messed up my login, froze my account and gave up trying to send it.
So here I go again....
Up until tuesday afternoon Hubby and I had been trying for 3 and a half years, we finally went to a fertility specialist about a month ago and had started tracking cycles, spem counts etc.
Tuesday afternoon the nurse from the clinic called and told me that they had worked out why my tracking results had been looking so odd. Apparently I'm already pregnant. I think I'm about 5 weeks along. So this was a bit of a shock, we'd tried for so long, I stopped letting myself think it was a possibility quite awhile ago.
So I should be over the moon, but instead I'm scared stiff. I've been bleeding lightly for the last two weeks, and yesterday I found out that I've also got an under active Thyriod. The clinic Nurse has been great, she organize Thyriod medication for me the same day, medical certificates so I could stay in bed for a couple of days (to try and reduce the bleeding) as well as follow up blood tests and appointments with the Clinic Doctor and a Thyriod Specialist.
It doesn't seam like there is anything left for me to do until next week when they get some more blood results but yesterday I made the silly mistake of Googling both problems and totally freaked myself out. I'm much calmer this morning, and I feel much better after getting it all out and written down. I didn't want to tell family or friends about it until we know exactly what's going on but I'm starting to question that decision.
We've got another 5 days to get through before our next appointment... It seams like forever.
Hi
Welcome to BellyBelly and congratulations!
What a lovely surprise for you. Please try not to worry about the underactive thyroid - google will tell you all sorts of terrible things, but it's really easy to treat. Due to the effects of my first IVF cycle I ended up with an extrememly low thyroid hormone level early on, but we fixed that and my son was born just fine.
The bleeding is stressful in pregnancy. It's not that uncommon and I hope that it eases up for you very soon. All the best for the next five days
BTW, you may want to join the ladies in our Pregnancy after LT TTC thread. They are very friendly and welcoming and will totally understand how you're feeling.
Thanks Marcellus. I felt nauseated this afternoon which actually made me really happy, it's the first physical sign I've had that there is really something happening.
Thanks for pointing me toward the LTTTC forum too, I read a few threads there today, it was reassuring to see so many people dealing with similar emotions, I'll introduce myself over there soon.
Hi, my underactive thyroid was diagnosed when had my first pregnancy confirmed at the doctor, got the thyroid meds sorted out and had a fantastic pregnancy and no issues with DD (now 17 months) at all, levels were monitored and adjusted throughout the pregnancy but was very easy. My thyroid had been checked prior to becoming pregnant and was a little low in the range so it wasn't until I got pregnant and needed to produce more thyroid that it actually showed in my levels, and at that five week point they were really horrific. I will always have to take thyroid meds but have had zero symptoms - I never look up anything to do with thyroid on Google because there is such a variety of conditions associated with it and everyone does react differently - my sister and I both have Hashimotos (so an autoimmune which attacks thyroid hormone that you produce) but neither of us have ever shown any symptoms normally associated with low thyroid.
Thanks ladies, blood test and scan tommorrow, looking forward to getting a bit more info about what's going on, although I've almost resolved myself to the idea that it not going to happen. Still bleeding lightly and getting a few blood clots now which can't be good.
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