To Lori

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Just got a chance to catch up on some emails and saw your latest

results. Your numbers look very good. In the upper normal to slightly

elevated range. I think I would stay on 300 mgs maybe a week to 2 weeks

more than get retested. Your neonatologist knows nothing about Graves

if he thinks the TSH has to be normal. Your TSH may never be normal but

end up hypo as I did. I had a FT4 of .3 and no readable TSH. The endo

kept saying you are Hyper. Yah right. I suppose he wanted me to have

no T4. Luckily I had a better endo the last pregnancy who didn't give a

darn about the TSH. Please go to www.thyroidmanager.org , chapter 14,

graves disease and pregnancy. Under this chapter there is clinical

aspects of the disease and therapeutic considerations. It is a bit

difficult to understand if you are not a clinician or nurse but in

general it states you can take enough PTU up to 300 mgs to keep you in a

mildly hyperthyroid state and also you are not to try to normalize the

TSH. An abnormally low reading is fine as long as you are clinically

okay without actual signs of being hyperthyroid. PRINT this out for

neonatologist, endo, OB and show it to them. DO NOT let them mess with

you and your baby. If they don't listen find a doctor who will. If

your insurance says no, report your reservations with a manager and

demand they allow you to see a competent provider. I don't mean to stir

you up but it is early enough for you and your numbers are good. So why

mess with something good. I'll try to keep up with your posts. Let us

know what transpires with your docs. You don't look like you are going

hypo yet so don't get overly alarmed, it isn't good for you or your

baby.. Regards, I.