Endocrinologist

A few weeks back I made an appointment with an endocrinologist. At the time I was told that the soonest available appointment is at the end of January. I made the appointment but continued to call every so often just to see if there were any cancellations.  Lo and behold, they had a cancellation for today and I was able to push up my appointment by nearly two months!

I met with the doctor and we went over my medical history. Based on the medical records I had transferred over that she reviewed, she started by saying that I'm right to want to double check. According to her she likes to see TSH between 0.5 - 2.5 and mine fluctuates way too often, sometimes as low as 1.91, sometimes as high as 3.81. Caused by what? Affected by what? I have no idea. But every time I test at the fertility clinic it always comes out under 2; everywhere else it's a gamble. She wants to test for anti-bodies because if those are positive then she wants to put me on a low dose thyroid med.

The other thing she wants to test for is insulin resistance. Apparently it's a symptom of pcos which I was never diagnosed with and have none of the symptoms. Because of that she said it's less likely but she still wanted to test for it. If both those come back within the normal range then whatever issue is that's causing the miscarriages, if there is one, isn't going to get fixed by endocrinology.

After chatting in her office, she took me to a medical room and took vitals: weight, blood pressure, breathing, checking for swollen ankles, etc. Everything looked good to her and she sent me to the lab to get blood drawn, telling me she'll be in touch in a week with results. They took 4x the amount of blood usually taken at monitoring appointments. I should have guessed they were going to take blood and loaded up on water but it didn't occur to me and of course they had to stick me twice before getting blood.

If I do need to go on any type of medication she said it's in my system within 3 days so it's not going to hold up any transfer if it is determined that I should go on those.

I wanted to hear what she had to say before pursuing another transfer so I'm glad I was able to get in earlier than end of January. I'm not sure what I'm hoping for. For there to be an issue so I can go on more meds? That this is the silver bullet? That I don't have a thyroid disease but then we're not any closer to answers for recurrent pregnancy loss? At this point we can only wait and see what happens.