Please can someone help me with my concerns as I'm sure all this stress is doing neither myself or the baby much good! I'm 16 weeks pregnant and have unmedicated hashimotos (unmedicated due to always being "in range" despite high TPO antibodies and numerous flaring symptoms) Anyway, I fell pregnant with absolutely no problem at all and prior to pregnancy my thyroid had been quite settled symptoms wise. I had the usual food rat trimester - morning sickness and exhaustion - but no real thyroid complaints. Now at just 16 weeks I'm falling apart! I've had two days of sleeping for 12 hours a night, feeling quite miserable/down and hand a wrist pain and carpal tunnel. Then last night I have been completely unable to sleep and am now climbing the walls with anxiety. This is a typical hashimotos flare for me.
My first pregnancy blood test was done at 5 weeks and all was good. My second was done at 9 weeks and free T3 and free T4 were in the upper part of the range but my tsh was 0.03 I am seeing the maternity endocrinologist in two days. I've heard that a low tsh in early pregnancy is quite common even in people without thyroid issues so I wasn't very concerned but now I feel awful.
Am I at risk of miscarriage?
Could this be fatal to me? I know that sounds so paranoid but when I get my hashimotos flares my heart does weird things and I'm prone to panic attacks. I'm terrified of these symptoms and have actually developed true anxiety about getting panic attacks so it's like a vicious circle
Any advice would be great for me and bump