So I have a good doctor. At least I think so. I don't want to be passive through this whole
TTC process. We didn't say anything when we felt things were really wrong with the miscarriage (like that I wasn't passing any clots or anything but bleeding nonstop and having bad cramps). Hind-sight is 20/20 and there were plenty warning signs - if we knew more about ectopic pregnancies and been more assertive - who knows we may have caught it early enough.
So now things are different, we approach our health and our health care providers differently. We are proactive in asking questions and making sure our concerns are heard (whether they are valid or not ;) Going back to my doctor he is on the conservative side but (at least with me) he has never told me that we
have to wait a year of charting (going crazy) and
reallystart trying to get pregnant before we would take more "drastic" measures. After our meeting in November, he told us that he had a really good feeling we would be pregnant before we rang in 2009 (he was right just our
lil one decided to get cozy in my fallopian tube).
At my follow-up appointment to get all the staples removed and actually be able to ask the same questions that I asked earlier in the week (I was just in such a drug haze I don't remember asking him 3 times at the hospital!!!!), Dr. P wanted to make sure I had my annual visit scheduled for June. Well I jokingly said well hopefully we see you before then and he just gave a small smile. Deep down I loved him for doing that.
I know that he knows that this may be a much harder and longer journey than we originally thought. I would be so angry and frustrated if he would have sugar-coated everything and then before we know it we are ringing in 2010 and are still wondering when to take the next step. Okay, back to why I originally started this post...
I called Dr. P's office today (after taking my last
HPT - you guessed it a
BFN ), and talked to his Nurse. I told her that I was at CD 52, over 7 weeks since my last period, and I had absolutely no AF signs. I mentioned that I don't feel like my body is right, that I have been bloated for the past few weeks (and I am so blaming that on my crazy cycle ;). I needed a jump kick start to my girlie parts! See my biggest and greatest concern
TTC -wise before the ectopic were my low progesterone numbers (or CD 21 test). They were still in the "normal" range but at the VERY bottom. You know, I am so fortunate that we did all the hormone testing because Dr. P knows that not only am I one tube short, but I may have some months where I don't produce a lot of progesterone.
Okay - Sorry, I keep going off on tangents...
So in my chart Dr. P has written that if I call back and AF hasn't arrived (
hahaha - that would be so funny if he had "AF" written in there!!!!) then we would discuss taking Pro.
vera. Well Nurse goes and talks to Dr. P and called me back (within 30 minutes - great office!) and sent the prescription over to my drug store. So I am to take 10mg once a day for 10 days. I could start AF by day 2 or at the end of the 10 days. I took the little pill at 2:00pm, and by 5:30pm I told J to please have patience with me over the next 10 days!! I could feel a slight shift in my mood. It went from having plans to go grocery shopping for the week and thinking of what we could cook to getting that
ugh AF is around the corner feeling!!!! It is so funny, about a week before AF comes naturally my legs start to itch. I think I mentioned this before. I wake up in the middle of the night scratching. Well tonight the itchy legs have arrived!!!! YEA!
To anyone who has taken Pro.
vera any thoughts on it would be great. Hopefully I will be able to keep y'all updated on how the medicine affects me!
So now things are different, we approach our health and our health care providers differently. We are proactive in asking questions and making sure our concerns are heard (whether they are valid or not ;) Going back to my doctor he is on the conservative side but (at least with me) he has never told me that we have to wait a year of charting (going crazy) and reallystart trying to get pregnant before we would take more "drastic" measures. After our meeting in November, he told us that he had a really good feeling we would be pregnant before we rang in 2009 (he was right just our lil one decided to get cozy in my fallopian tube).
At my follow-up appointment to get all the staples removed and actually be able to ask the same questions that I asked earlier in the week (I was just in such a drug haze I don't remember asking him 3 times at the hospital!!!!), Dr. P wanted to make sure I had my annual visit scheduled for June. Well I jokingly said well hopefully we see you before then and he just gave a small smile. Deep down I loved him for doing that.
I know that he knows that this may be a much harder and longer journey than we originally thought. I would be so angry and frustrated if he would have sugar-coated everything and then before we know it we are ringing in 2010 and are still wondering when to take the next step.
Okay, back to why I originally started this post...
I called Dr. P's office today (after taking my last HPT - you guessed it a BFN ), and talked to his Nurse. I told her that I was at CD 52, over 7 weeks since my last period, and I had absolutely no AF signs. I mentioned that I don't feel like my body is right, that I have been bloated for the past few weeks (and I am so blaming that on my crazy cycle ;). I needed a jump kick start to my girlie parts! See my biggest and greatest concern TTC -wise before the ectopic were my low progesterone numbers (or CD 21 test). They were still in the "normal" range but at the VERY bottom. You know, I am so fortunate that we did all the hormone testing because Dr. P knows that not only am I one tube short, but I may have some months where I don't produce a lot of progesterone.
Okay - Sorry, I keep going off on tangents...
So in my chart Dr. P has written that if I call back and AF hasn't arrived ( hahaha - that would be so funny if he had "AF" written in there!!!!) then we would discuss taking Pro. vera. Well Nurse goes and talks to Dr. P and called me back (within 30 minutes - great office!) and sent the prescription over to my drug store. So I am to take 10mg once a day for 10 days. I could start AF by day 2 or at the end of the 10 days. I took the little pill at 2:00pm, and by 5:30pm I told J to please have patience with me over the next 10 days!! I could feel a slight shift in my mood. It went from having plans to go grocery shopping for the week and thinking of what we could cook to getting that ugh AF is around the corner feeling!!!! It is so funny, about a week before AF comes naturally my legs start to itch. I think I mentioned this before. I wake up in the middle of the night scratching. Well tonight the itchy legs have arrived!!!! YEA!
To anyone who has taken Pro. vera any thoughts on it would be great. Hopefully I will be able to keep y'all updated on how the medicine affects me!