So, I'm almost done my Prometrium - just 2 days left. Thank goodness. I'm tired of waking up sweating, face flushed all day, dizzy, nauseous and all that other wonderful stuff. Hopefully it goes away soon after the meds are done.
Other than that, the exciting news is that my sister had her baby. A was born on Nov 23. Mom and baby - as well as big sis S and big bro P - are all doing fine! 15 more sleeps until R and I head out east to visit for Christmas. I can't wait! Although I still haven't done my Christmas shopping yet, and I have no clue what I will be getting for people. I think we are concentrating on the nieces and nephew this year from my side, but I am not sure about his side.
Anyways, just a quick note as I hadn't yet posted the birth notice.
M
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Nov. 20 Update
So much for posting every week. But at least it hasn't been a month yet..
Wednesday was our appointment with the specialist. I had been warned that she didn't have the best bed-side manner and was very blunt, so I was prepared for the worst. However, it wasn't nearly as bad as I expected. At least her behaviour. The results, not so much.
It looks like I might have PCOS. She suspects my weight gain, mild hair growth, heavy cycles are the result of PCOS. I have no clue. She sent me for alot of bloodwork that I've had done before, but we'll see what happens. It would be nice to get a diagnosis for the infertility, and then we can start with meds. Not sure what will happen if the tests are inconclusive.
She also examined hubby and he has some more issues than we thought he did. His blood pressure was pretty high and he has something wrong with one of his testes. So, he'll be going off to a doc and getting that checked out.
My challenge is my weight. She won't do any treatments until I lose some weight. So, I'm giving myself the rest of the weekend to "be bad" and then starting Monday, I am going to make more careful and good choices. She's given me an almost impossible goal for our next appointment, but I'm going to do all I can. If it postpones our treatment for a couple of months until I get to the right weight, it will only pay off in the end for my health. (So, I guess we start obsessing. :) )
I'm coming to grips with it all, but still have moments/minutes/hours of intense emotion where I feel quite hopeless/helpless. I have no idea if we will ever have our much wanted child, but we will work together to see if we can make our dream come true.
The current excitment in our life is that we have bought a house. :) Well, it's almost ours. We are still having a bit of an issue with the bank, but we have verbal approval and we just need the written approval which we should have on Monday. We get possession in December. Woot woot.
Oh, and my sister is due today! But no action yet. I can't wait to be an auntie again... (for the 3rd time).
Signing off as I want to start planning food for this week. We have our work cut out for us.
M
Wednesday was our appointment with the specialist. I had been warned that she didn't have the best bed-side manner and was very blunt, so I was prepared for the worst. However, it wasn't nearly as bad as I expected. At least her behaviour. The results, not so much.
It looks like I might have PCOS. She suspects my weight gain, mild hair growth, heavy cycles are the result of PCOS. I have no clue. She sent me for alot of bloodwork that I've had done before, but we'll see what happens. It would be nice to get a diagnosis for the infertility, and then we can start with meds. Not sure what will happen if the tests are inconclusive.
She also examined hubby and he has some more issues than we thought he did. His blood pressure was pretty high and he has something wrong with one of his testes. So, he'll be going off to a doc and getting that checked out.
My challenge is my weight. She won't do any treatments until I lose some weight. So, I'm giving myself the rest of the weekend to "be bad" and then starting Monday, I am going to make more careful and good choices. She's given me an almost impossible goal for our next appointment, but I'm going to do all I can. If it postpones our treatment for a couple of months until I get to the right weight, it will only pay off in the end for my health. (So, I guess we start obsessing. :) )
I'm coming to grips with it all, but still have moments/minutes/hours of intense emotion where I feel quite hopeless/helpless. I have no idea if we will ever have our much wanted child, but we will work together to see if we can make our dream come true.
The current excitment in our life is that we have bought a house. :) Well, it's almost ours. We are still having a bit of an issue with the bank, but we have verbal approval and we just need the written approval which we should have on Monday. We get possession in December. Woot woot.
Oh, and my sister is due today! But no action yet. I can't wait to be an auntie again... (for the 3rd time).
Signing off as I want to start planning food for this week. We have our work cut out for us.
M
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Intro post
So, I'm procrastinating getting this blog going. So many thoughts interupt my actions, but I have about 30 minutes right now that I'm dedicating to this post. My goal is to post once a week, but I'll be happy with once a month.
Intro:
Hi.. I'm 36, and my husband, R is 38. We got married in August of 2009. We live in Edmonton, Alberta.
Neither of us have children yet, but both of us want a couple.
Our Journey:
Our TTC journey began unofficially before we got married, but we have been actually trying/charting since the wedding. As of right now, we are on cycle #19 (13th charting).
I am pretty consistent with my ovulating - O between CD15 and 18 (except for last cycle, it was CD20) and I have a Luteal phase around 12-13 days. (It used to be 10-11 days, but it seems to be stretching out. Yaaay for supplements!)
We've done alot of tests but nothing has been succesful yet. I've had an HSG done - determined that there was no blockage, the fluid flowed well, but they saw a few spots that they wanted to look closer at. So, I had a sonahysterogram done. And they found about 10 polyps that are under 10mm each. R has had 2 semen analysis tests done and the results are that he has a low count. However, if I remember correctly, the motility, and general health of the sperm is good, but just low numbers.
We both take supplements to help out. R takes FertileAid for men in the hopes that it would increase his count. I take a prenatal, Vitamin D, Vit B6, folic acid, and a prescribed med Verapamil. I also take maca root, red raspberry leaf, vitex, and I drink green tea.
We've tried to improve our diet, but are both struggling with that. I could handle losing about 100 pounds, but I'd be really pleased to start with 50 pounds. However, I am not putting our quest for a child on hold until I lose the weight. R could handle losing 25-35 pounds for better health. We need to work on it, but it's not something that we are obsessing over yet. :)
I have had cd3 and cd21 bloodwork done with all normal results.
Back in April/May we requested that my Ob/Gyn, Dr. T, refer us to a specialist, and we received an appointment for Oct. 29th. That appointment was changed to November 17, so we are about 2.5 weeks away. The doctor that we will be seeing has a reputation for being quite blunt and lacking in bed-side manner. However, she is good at what she does, and has been doing it for about 30 years. So, I just need to "suck it up" and go see her. I know she'll say that I need to lose weight, and she'll be right, but other overweight women have become pregnant, so that isn't the only reason why I am not able to get pregnant.
So we need some answers. Is it just unexplained? Is it due to the polyps? Low count? Do I have PCOS? Is it something else? Will an IUI work? Will we need to look at IVF? Are we willing to go for IVF or is the cost too high to try?
And at what point do we say "Thats it"? Do we look at adoption, fostering, etc.?
Who knows. These are all questions that we have.
And I think that's about good for right now.
M
Intro:
Hi.. I'm 36, and my husband, R is 38. We got married in August of 2009. We live in Edmonton, Alberta.
Neither of us have children yet, but both of us want a couple.
Our Journey:
Our TTC journey began unofficially before we got married, but we have been actually trying/charting since the wedding. As of right now, we are on cycle #19 (13th charting).
I am pretty consistent with my ovulating - O between CD15 and 18 (except for last cycle, it was CD20) and I have a Luteal phase around 12-13 days. (It used to be 10-11 days, but it seems to be stretching out. Yaaay for supplements!)
We've done alot of tests but nothing has been succesful yet. I've had an HSG done - determined that there was no blockage, the fluid flowed well, but they saw a few spots that they wanted to look closer at. So, I had a sonahysterogram done. And they found about 10 polyps that are under 10mm each. R has had 2 semen analysis tests done and the results are that he has a low count. However, if I remember correctly, the motility, and general health of the sperm is good, but just low numbers.
We both take supplements to help out. R takes FertileAid for men in the hopes that it would increase his count. I take a prenatal, Vitamin D, Vit B6, folic acid, and a prescribed med Verapamil. I also take maca root, red raspberry leaf, vitex, and I drink green tea.
We've tried to improve our diet, but are both struggling with that. I could handle losing about 100 pounds, but I'd be really pleased to start with 50 pounds. However, I am not putting our quest for a child on hold until I lose the weight. R could handle losing 25-35 pounds for better health. We need to work on it, but it's not something that we are obsessing over yet. :)
I have had cd3 and cd21 bloodwork done with all normal results.
Back in April/May we requested that my Ob/Gyn, Dr. T, refer us to a specialist, and we received an appointment for Oct. 29th. That appointment was changed to November 17, so we are about 2.5 weeks away. The doctor that we will be seeing has a reputation for being quite blunt and lacking in bed-side manner. However, she is good at what she does, and has been doing it for about 30 years. So, I just need to "suck it up" and go see her. I know she'll say that I need to lose weight, and she'll be right, but other overweight women have become pregnant, so that isn't the only reason why I am not able to get pregnant.
So we need some answers. Is it just unexplained? Is it due to the polyps? Low count? Do I have PCOS? Is it something else? Will an IUI work? Will we need to look at IVF? Are we willing to go for IVF or is the cost too high to try?
And at what point do we say "Thats it"? Do we look at adoption, fostering, etc.?
Who knows. These are all questions that we have.
And I think that's about good for right now.
M
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