Self medication

[Bellini]

As my GP doesn't seem to want to up my dosage - would it really hurt to go from 75mg to 100mg a day?

[Chippysue]

Bellini, Barbara has given you the info - please contact your midwife, if you don't want to see that GP you saw again, does your surgery have several doctors. Please let us know how you get on.

[Bellini in reply to Chippysue]

My midwife said to leave it until after my next test which is the first week of July. I'm seeing a hospital consultant at the end of July so will bring it up again.

Do you think it's more urgent than that?

[Barbara]

Hi Bellini, It's really not a good idea to self-medicate. Get another appointment with a GP, any GP, and show him/her the info that I posted for you yesterday and ask for an increase. Explain that you have been though a great deal of anguish getting pregnant in the first place and you are very concerned that you are not on enough thyroxine yet.

Ask if you can just have a trial increase of thyroxine to stop you worrying, if s/he won't budge then ask for the refusal to be recorded in your notes along with your concerns.

An article on 'normal TSH' is a good one to show docs too. It contains a very descriptive graph of TSH levels and is based on an official study of 65,000 people. See tinyurl.com/yyodja

Good luck!