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How Do You Have A Healthy Pregnancy With Graves And Celiac Disease?

Heidi Kelly

By Heidi Kelly
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Heidi Kelly Apprentice
Heidi Kelly
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Hi!

Has anyone here had a successful pregnancy with no thyroid (due to having Radioactive Iodine treatment for Graves disease) and Celiac Disease?

I am in my preplanning stage for trying for our second child and dont see my doctors until the end of this month and am quite curious to find someone who may have similar circumstances and carried a healthy baby to term....

Thanks in advance,

Heidi

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Having Celiac under control (i.e., a strict gluten free diet) is the best way to go in terms of celiac-pregnancy. The risks related to Celiac/pregnancy go down dramatically once the patient is diagnosed and goes gluten free. So its not really having Celiac per se that is the problem, it is the undiagnosed/untreated Celiac that is most often the problem.

I recommend Dr. Green's book "Celiac Disease: A hidden epidemic" --- it covers fertility and Celiac. He is a leading researcher/physician at Columbia's Celiac Center. I love his book-it is just about the most definitive source out there, and chances are, will have more info that many docs will have.

I don't know much about thyroid, but I'm sure someone on here will chime in.

Good luck! Best wishes on your pregnancy-to-be! :)

Heidi Kelly Apprentice
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Thanks....going to order the book on Amazon right now! :D

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