Pregnant and Overweight

[MummaRobyn]

Thanks so much guys for your explanation... I guess I should bite the bullet and get it seen to.

Who knows I might end up feeling better... I seem to have all the symptoms that you describe to certain degrees so it would certainly explain a lot.

I guess what also scares me is that I will have the test and there will be no thyroid problems and all the symptoms I am experiencing will not be due to that.... when I was seven I have a really clear memory of the doctor doing the blood test - I had hid under the table, poor doc... and then finding the results were normal and I asked him why I had such a big neck and he looked at me right in the eyes and said "You just have a big, fat neck" and that has always stuck by me! Don't you hate that it is the hurtful words that last the years? I know it is not just fat though cos it is a solid hard mass (well and a lil double chinigans hehe) but inside there is definately something enlarged.... I guess I could have just been lucky to have been born with an over-sized thyroid.... because the dr the other day who saw it felt it and said it was definately my thyroid and not just fat or something.

Oh sorry for the ramble.

[rynosmum]

We're all different and look different but that doesn't mean that the look that any of us has is 'wrong' !.

They can remove the thyroid but that may cause more trouble than it's worth and now, you're probably the only one who notices it because of what that horrible Dr said so many years ago.

Ignore him and anyone like him. Get the tests if your Dr recommends but if they come out negative, feel somewhat relieved as whilst Thyroid issues are certainly treatable, they are a problem that you have to deal with and who needs more problems in their life ??

[MummaRobyn]

Thanks Katrina your words make me feel better...

[rynosmum]

My last TSH reading (after this thread) was 1.8 but for the past few weeks I've felt unwell and today got my latest reading of 7 . I thought I was doing so well but knew that something was wrong.

Caroline, I don't know how I was ever 91 either. I'm so much more sensitive to the changes now !

[suemp]

hi guys just reading thru your posts as i too am overweight. started with preg number 1. anyway just wanted to say A) good luck and
carolinef: i once had severe low iron levels too i should have been dead. was due to severe heavy periods as a teenager and me too naive to realise it was not right . i noticed your doc has mentioned a blood transfusion. have they given you the option of an iron injection. one shot is equivelant to 10 tablets at once. i was on those once every second day and 3 iron tablets a day. it soon brought my levels up. i feel for you. theres nothing worse than that gonna pass out feeling.

[Heartsdesire]

I am overweight and pregnant though i may be a little different from most as I have had lap banding done to loose weight that was done in 2001 i was 155kgs i now weight 108kgs.

My first pregnancy in 1996 i was 130kgs I ended up looseing 10kgs without trying the doctor was making sure it wasnt to much.... In 2004 i had a miscarriage at 8 weeks, in 2005 dec i suffered another miscarriage at 6 weeks. I was worried my weight may of helped with the miscarriages but my doctor said they were both when bad cells were formed so really no babies would of formed and both had stopped growing at 5 weeks. ( not sure the term for this)

and now im 11 weeks pregnant again I cannot eat as much as a normal person but i have put on 2kgs in the last 11 weeks on a good note i can now eat a whole snitzel and veg and keep it down b4 the pregnancy i could barelly eat a child size mcdonalds burger without being sick.... and yes i havent been sick apart from morning sickness and i seem to be eating a ton more but feel so much better for it.

I also have been eating as healthy as i can i have wanted fish, brussel sprouts and lots of green veg and pickles since i have fallen pregnant these are foods i hated in the past and i have gone off chocolate fully yet i enjoy a piece of toast with honey....and carrots and honey

I for one am not worried about putting a little weight on being pregnant i feel healthier for starters and i am not going to sit and worry about my weight i have more to worry about! oh and im blooming my hubby loves how well im looking.

I also have had my iron tested b4 the pregnancy I was very low on iron and in my last pregnany i was also.... my iron lvls were perfect as were all my other ones which was a relief.