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ARCHIVED Getting Pregnant With So Many Health Issues?
Alexandra replied to Green12's topic in Related Issues & Disorders
Hi, Julie. I cannot speak from personal experience, but it's my understanding that many women with auto-immune conditions feel better during pregnancy because pregnancy suppresses the normal (or abnormal ) functioning of the immune system. That is, to allow the baby (a foreign creature) to develop, mom's immune response is attenuated. So hopefully... -
Beverly, Thanks. I don't think I'm really even gluten-free yet. I started being gluten-free-ish one month ago and have had 3 definite "accidents" in that time (one meal I decided to eat anyway, one time I put a sauce on my food without thinking, and ditto when I got some crumbs on my thumb and -- oh the horror! -- licked them off before I thought about...
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Berneses -- GL to you and yes, please let me know what you learn. I hope it will be good news! -- Alexandra
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Hi. I took Armour for maybe 2 months and I did take it twice a day. I didn't make a gradual switch, so that may have contributed to my problems with it, and I realize I might have been better off with more T4 to less T3, (which is what the part-Levoxyl part-Armour dosing you are describing would achieve, as I'm sure you realize, but in case anyone reading...
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Heyho, Sounds good, I would do that. The cool thing about thyroid problems is that they are usually very easy to treat, and treating them makes you feel better (neither is true for a lot of stuff people do for infertility!). The noticeable change in your TSH in just over a year to me suggests an attack -- presumably auto-immune. I think this is...
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Hi all, I don't know yet if I have celiac. Waiting for blood results back. But I do for sure have auto-immune hypothyroidism (aka Hashimoto's). I believe Synthroid (synthetic T4), Armour (natural T4 and T3 derived from dessicated pigs' thyroid glands) and other thyroid replacement products are digested/absorbed in the small intestine. So I assume...
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ARCHIVED How Strict Do We Need To Be?
Alexandra replied to radman's topic in Post Diagnosis, Recovery & Treatment of Celiac Disease
Franceen, Ugh -- sorry! It does work for me (honest -- like, I just re-clicked the link in your reply to my post and went straight back to where I was, which is a 906(!) page PDF about celiac disease (a lot of that is appendices and references, though). My best guess is maybe because I am logging on using my work computer which has an IP address associated... -
ARCHIVED How Strict Do We Need To Be?
Alexandra replied to radman's topic in Post Diagnosis, Recovery & Treatment of Celiac Disease
Hi all (and especially Radman), As a not-yet-diagnosed possible celiac (waiting on bloodwork results), I read this thread with interest. In hunting around the web for information about celiac I ran across the following report, which might be of interest to those who want to know the current "medical evidence" stuff about celiac (I read parts of this... -
Heyho, The anti-thyroid antibodies (there are 2 different kinds) are something any doctor can order, it's a simple blood test (by this I mean it's something any lab seems to be able to run fine; as I've learned in my medical journey, some tests are very specialized but these don't seem to be). However, I'm a big fan of seeking out good specialists as...
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Sorry, I'm new here, trying to figure out how to respond to Heyho. Please forgive any technical difficulties... Heyho, I am new to celiac (actually just trying to find out if I might have it), but dealing with infertility and autoimmune thyroid disease (both of those are definites for me). I wonder if you might have the latter and be hypothyroid, a common...