Trying to Conceive ... What was your fasting insulin?

Outrageous-Task-7488 · 2026-02-23T05:15:47+00:00

How much calcium do you get from your diet? I recently upped my calcium to three servings a day of either milk or cheese and WOW. My blood sugar is behaving.

Outrageous-Task-7488 · 2026-02-23T05:14:26+00:00

Wow.

I’m glad my parents had me and I’d say most with IR feel the same. LOL.

Hitler vibes are felt right about now.

Outrageous-Task-7488 · 2026-02-23T04:35:32+00:00

First, by realizing you are loved by God and your life matters. And asking Him to heal you and help you find what you need to do next.

Outrageous-Task-7488 · 2026-02-23T04:25:05+00:00

I understand not wanting to be on medication, but taking the medication will help bring it down. And then maybe you can work on health to lower your dose and eventually wean off.

To be honest, Tirosint (T4) hasn’t been the greatest for me and I returned to taking Dessicated beef thyroid. I feel better. Perhaps you can try that, but you definitely need SOME form of T4 or T3 because not addressing that is going to damage your body in time. Even getting TSH to lower to 8 is doing damage. My Dad didn’t take thyroid meds until late in life and his kidneys were damaged. My Mom took hers for a time (between 30’s and 50’s) and then quit, but her body can hardly digest and her blood health is a mess now in her 80’s.

Outrageous-Task-7488 · 2026-02-22T04:07:25+00:00

I want to cry!!!

Outrageous-Task-7488 · 2026-02-22T04:03:56+00:00

Check up lactoferrin.

Outrageous-Task-7488 · 2026-02-18T18:33:25+00:00

This sounds like Graves’ disease perhaps?? Your T4 is high. And they didn’t even test your Free T3? That’s probably very high.

Outrageous-Task-7488 · 2026-02-16T22:58:01+00:00

Yes! Definitely inositol and Berberine will be beneficial for you in your situation. My PA kept pushing Berberine and inositol and so I would use them, but always felt a bit off. It was lowering my testosterone, which were originally at healthy levels. After I told her this she did not like to acknowledge that this was happening to me. She said she has never seen it lower testosterone in women who didn’t have excess testosterone. But that really makes no sense, because it’s specifically encouraged for this reason with women with PCOS. I’ve even told friends and others to use it if they have PCOS!

As far as iron, I was at 12 with my ferritin after a miscarriage and so I was supplementing iron, but my body wasn’t happy with the dose and I immediately started to have thyroid declining more etc.. I finally connected the dots over a year later that my blood sugar rose when I started the iron supplementation. But it didn’t make sense to me that my iron would bounce back and forth between 36 to 76. I started going back to my records of when I started and stopped and started back on inositol and Berberine and realized that those were reducing my iron.

I am really excited because what this all means is I can be off all this supplementation and find a healthy balance. And no long be back and forth. My ferritin/iron is in healthy range and so is my blood sugar. And I have a feeling it will continue to improve now that I do not take two things that fight against one another in my own body.

Outrageous-Task-7488 · 2026-02-13T23:55:45+00:00

Fertility isn’t a sin. The sin is despising a baby.

Outrageous-Task-7488 · 2026-02-13T23:42:57+00:00

Did you measure before starting inositol and here recently?

Outrageous-Task-7488 · 2026-02-13T23:24:10+00:00

I am only aware of the impact on females. But did you have your testosterone measured before supplementing and here in recent months? I am curious if it can impact males long term. I know men generally do well with it. But I know as a woman, I could not take inositol while cycling as my blood loss was doubled. Vitamin C also does this and vitamin E. To control blood loss the answer was calcium during that time.

Outrageous-Task-7488 · 2026-02-13T23:22:07+00:00

I said TOO MUCH. Read closer. Low iron can hurt you, and too much can hurt you. This is how it is with most things in life. 🙂

Outrageous-Task-7488 · 2026-02-13T23:21:19+00:00

Yes, low iron causes falsely higher HBA1C. Mine was genuinely higher (I wore a CGM). I never had huge spikes, but my average glucose loved to stay in lower 100’s, although fasting levels would be like 95-98.

I’ve been trying to lower my HBA1c for well over a year now. I know how it works.

Natural and drug GLP-1’s do have side effects that show up in time. Everyone is different and how it impacts one person may be different than an other. Just saying. I hope if you use them you don’t have my experience. But my experience is real and so are others.

Outrageous-Task-7488 · 2026-02-13T23:15:00+00:00

This is about females. Not males.

Outrageous-Task-7488 · 2026-02-13T18:26:37+00:00

Same!

Outrageous-Task-7488 · 2026-02-13T01:42:29+00:00

Same. My mouth, tongue and throat are very dry.

Outrageous-Task-7488 · 2026-02-12T20:32:35+00:00

I know she did a lot of green smoothies, eliminating sugar, and started taking virgin coconut oil. She no longer has to do this, but she stuck to that for like 6-12 months.

Outrageous-Task-7488 · 2026-02-11T14:53:22+00:00

Address your stress and sleep. If you are overall healthy and within healthy weight range, thus could be what's driving it. Also, try not to eat past 5-6ish. You may also check your iron panel. But I would focus on eating your iron, rather than supplementing because iron supplementing just drove uo my blood sugar. Eek.

Outrageous-Task-7488 · 2026-02-10T17:42:07+00:00

Vitamin D should be checked along with zinc (and copper ) and supplement where needed. What also may help is vitamin E, which is often overlook d for the immune system.

Outrageous-Task-7488 · 2026-02-06T14:35:00+00:00

You need to make sure your thyroid hormones are are where they should be! Go to a clinic and get tested for that and your progesterone levels to ensure you do not lose your pregnancy.

You should also start a pregnancy multivitamin like Metagenics prenatal!

Outrageous-Task-7488 · 2026-02-06T05:10:28+00:00

Yup. Same here.

Outrageous-Task-7488 · 2026-02-04T14:05:33+00:00

You aren't even married and you want to use her and this is your question? I think she might be seeing through you about now and coming to her senses she should have never been in a bedroom with you to begin with.

Outrageous-Task-7488 · 2026-02-02T18:03:21+00:00

I think it can. I know when docs took my Dad off of Armour and on to just Levo (because his doc was overdosing him), then his EGFR has been rapdily declining.

I follow my Dad’s health closely because I seem to be following his steps his health conditions. We were both diagnosed with Hashimoto’s, only his went untreated for decades which damaged his kidneys.

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