Guest guest Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 yeah, I know sometimes moms need to have their thyroid dosages rechecked after a pregnancy, hormone balances change. And not all moms get milk fever, not even most of them from my observation as a postpartum doula/ LC. I didnt' know you could get mastitis from thyroid med overdosages though. Vicky York, IBCLC, CPD Postpartum Care Services Portland, Oregon http://mypeoplepc.com/members/vmyork/ http://vmyork.ikarma.com/id269 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 25, 2008 Report Share Posted March 25, 2008 Well when I told my doc that was what I thought it was from, he said " no you can't get mastitis from too much thyroid " but I did not believe him. I believed that he intentionally overdosed me... because I wanted to go on armour thyroid instead of synthroid. He put me on 90 mg and I got mastitis and even a panic attack (after losing a bunch of weight, probably releasing stored Zoloft residue in my burning fat cells, and also mixing with the overdose of meds and some expired tylenol). If you can have low milk production from underactive thyroid, it makes sense than an overactive thyroid would cause overproduction and backed up milk in those ducts and so forth could lead to mastitis. Mine was actually more like borderline mastitis because I never got the redness and swelling, just rock hard and a few streaks, lots of pain and flu like symptoms. But a lot of nursing took care of most of that, combined with lots of baths and frequent water drinking etc. Back to the OD thing, he put me right back on synthroid, and months later I went to a different doc who put me straight onto 60 mg, which turned out to be the correct dose, even after I had gone up from 100 mcg of Synthroid to 112 mcg. So my endocrinologist in my opinion, had done it on purpose and put me on the higher dose either to cause a panic attack and try to get me into the psych hospital, or to cause a heart attack and kill me, or to make it seem like Synthroid was safer so he could get a kickback of some sort by keeping me on that version. Whichever reason (I doubt seriously that it was blatant incompetence since my NP was the one who later prescribed the correct dose, and an endocrinologist should know better), when I refused to take my dose as prescribed after the bad reactions the nurse got really upset with me for not following orders. Excuse me but I am not taking more of that when I am already seriously overdosed on it. DUH. Sincerely, Amy Philo 214-705-0169 home 817-793-8028 cell URGENT! Sign the petition against the MOTHERS Act at http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stop-the-dangerous-and-invasive-mothers-act Visit www.uniteforlife.org " VMYORK " <VMYORK ayurveda Tuesday, March 25, 2008 12:34:50 AM PerinatalAyurveda forum Re: milk fever yeah, I know sometimes moms need to have their thyroid dosages rechecked after a pregnancy, hormone balances change. And not all moms get milk fever, not even most of them from my observation as a postpartum doula/ LC. I didnt' know you could get mastitis from thyroid med overdosages though. Vicky York, IBCLC, CPD Postpartum Care Services Portland, Oregon http://mypeoplepc. com/members/ vmyork/ http://vmyork. ikarma.com/ id269 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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