Are you looking at low thyroid levels as a part of a fertility work up? You are in great luck. It should be easy to add some thyroid, the right kind for best results, and it is time to start planning for the new bundle of Joy.
Oh that it were that simple. Lets see, from what you have read about low thyroid and the high possibility your true thyroid levels in your cells are low and found out are slim. That is right. Flip back and review the list of symptoms of low thyroid levels. One of them is inability to get pregnant. Or if you do, it is difficult to carry the pregnancy to term. Now you are seeing a fertility specialist because of these problems. But what if he can’t find them with his regular lab tests? That is a big possibility. (Read Hypothyroidism type II by Mark Starr MD for the poor capability of the TSH and other blood tests to find hypothyroidism) Now back to the subject, your infertility in spite of your chubbiness, thin hair, dry skin, lack of libido, long history of PMS, painful periods with many irregular intervals is causing your infertility. “Let’s do some procedures to see if we can get you pregnant my dear”
With all of the above, a doctor of a few years ago would have safely and carefully put you on natural thyroid tablets for 3 months and monitored the results (new pregnancy usually). Today’s “modern” “duped doctor” (unaware the TSH test is poor to useless) will now proceed on the path of many tests, planned “rush home love making”, probing, small and frequent insemination attempts. These sometimes produce a pregnancy that you loose in 2 mos. You can’t carry a pregnancy with hypothyroidism. Then it is time for “laparoscopic surgeries” to take a look at your ovaries and fix any problems”. You, who know, take a look at the bill you have run up. Take a look at the cost of 100 natural 60 mg thyroid tablets. Lets see, mmmm, I think you might have $100 dollars in the pills and $20,000 to $40,000 in the medical work up. I, for the low cost of a hundred tablets and a good history and physical “have gotten many of my patients pregnant”. We still get cards and thank you’s and birth notices from the success we have. At the risk of some ridicule,
I have given thyroid to clinically low thyroid patients. I can hear the critical comments form you colleagues who give antibiotics at the drop of a hat even though 90% of upper Resp. infections are a virus. And the last time I checked, the over use of antibiotics has caused many, many deaths from the MERSA (resistant staph) and many other reactions as well as the huge expense of their “therapeutic” trials which is what you would call the use of the Thyroid mentioned above, Go Figure.
Now take some time and review the Video entries on this site. Do call me for a consult if need by. There is a charge. But what do you consider the cost of a probable new pregnancy that you could carry to term should be? Some say a Million. Here is the number 888 297 4457 (we are living in Norman Oklahoma CST Zone)
~Howard Hagglund MD
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