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Menstrual problems and subfertility – difficulty conceiving and/or maintaining a pregnancy – are both associated with an underactive thyroid (see Chapter 8). It may also be difficult to conceive because your sex life has ground to a halt. When doing anything is an effort, it may be impossible to summon up the energy for sex, especially if you are feeling unattractive due to various physical changes.

If hypothyroidism is a result of pituitary malfunction, you may begin to produce milk from your breasts even though you are not lactating, a result of an abnormal production of the milk-producing hormone prolactin by the pituitary.

Lyn, who was diagnosed with hypothyroidism after the birth of her second baby, says, ‘I was very irritable and my lack of libido didn’t help my marriage.’