Now, this post is geared mainly for women, so if you are a man and would like to skip this post, I would completely understand!

If you have been following my blog, you will know that my doctor has given us the “okay” for pregnancy. So, in gearing up for it, I have been treating it as if I was tracking blood sugars. I have been tracking basal body temperatures in the morning, as well as a few other fertility signs. Now, I have to admit, I know it’s probably a little much considering we were just starting out trying, but it’s been a great help in understanding where weird highs bgs came from all these other months that I couldn’t explain. I had always heard of the awful hormone highs that happen during PMS or DMS (During menstrual syndrome, as I call it), but never of the ones that come DO (During ovulation). My numbers usually soar during that wonderful time when my friend decides to pay me a visit, and when I thought was a random day or two in the middle of the month. But since tracking my temps in the morning, I have also noticed a trend with my bg levels as well. It seems that my bgs will rise a day or two before and after ovulation, and then a few days before my period. Weird, huh? I know it’s because of the progesterone rise in my system, but it’s just amazing to me how the human body can respond in SO many ways to different things. So, now at least I can prepare for these things based on trends of basal body temps too.

This week has also been my week to really start to get the full benefit of my new dosage of Synthroid. I just cannot get over how your body can react to not having such a small amount of hormone in your system. If you think about it, the dosages of insulin that we take isn’t that much per day either, but really? 112 MICROgrams of Synthroid doesn’t seem to be that much! Even so, I just cannot get over how much better I feel now that I have it in my system. I don’t feel like I am in a constant state of sleep or fog-brain. I actually love multitasking things at work because I have the energy to do it. I was originally put on it because my doctor ran tests to find out why my periods were becoming irregular, even with improved glucose control. My TSH level came back elevated, but not terribly bad. But considering it was only 2.7 or 2.8 about 6 months before and had been around that level for years, then it jumped up to 4.2, he was concerned. That’s when I started on 100 mcg. It seemed to be working and my numbers quickly went back into the normal range the next month in my followup bloodwork. 2.2, to be exact. So, I thought I was fine, we had it figured out. I started getting my energy back as well. But in the past month or so, I started getting the symptoms back. Hard to lose weight, VERY sleepy (I actually did fall asleep at work a few times – VERY bad!), I was even coming home from work and sleeping til my husband got home just to try catch up on what sleep I thought I must have been missing at night. So, when I went to my endo this past time, even though my A1c was great, my TSH level had gone up again. 5.8. So, we increased my meds again, and it seems to be helping. I just hope that this will be the last time. It kinda scares me to know there is another part of my body that isn’t functioning the way that it should be and therefore causing me to take more synthetic medicine just to function like normal. Granted, I know there are a lot of other people out there taking a lot more meds that me, and for that I am grateful that it is only two meds.

So, what’s the point of this post? No point really. Just to share a little information that I’ve learned and to ramble aimlessly. I promise I’ll have something a little more put together next time.