Ok, I finally have some updates and a plan.
I finally decided to suck it up and head to the RE. I had a referral, but I put it off because I was, well scared.
I called, and surprise, I had an appointment for the following week. This was a relief because it gave me less time to dwell and be anxious.
First thing, I had to fill out a packet where I told them all about me. Like I was told, I filled this out ahead of time, and like any other doctors office, as soon as I got there, I had to fill out something else asking the same questions. When I got there, I had been stuck in traffic and desperately had to use the restroom. This meant they wanted to run a pregnancy test. I rolled my eyes mentally, but of course they had to make sure.
I do that, they ask for a credit card to keep on file, and I laugh internally because I have my medical savings credit card. They can only bill it until the account runs out of money. Hopefully it won't get to that point because then I will have to dig into the real credit card. Scary thought.
They call me in, and then the nurse asks me the same questions. Cancer in the family? Some. Sister fertile? Yep, irritatingly so. How is your marriage? Wonderful. Blood Type? Um, I forget, oops. And i promise to e-mail my FerilityFriend charts to the nurse (crap, I still have to do that).
C then finally shows up because he was also stuck in traffic, so we then head to the RE's cozy little office with multiple dispays of ovaries and uterus(es?).
We chat with the RE, go over some of the SAME questions again. She says the is suspecting Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) but that she needed to run some tests to be sure, along with multiple other tests. After an U/S that showed I have a reverse something or other uterus, and one cyst that looks like a normal post-ovulation one, The RE then decided, until the tests confirmed or denied the treatment choice, that we would follow this plan:
Cycle 1:
Genetics test to check for genetic disorder precursers
C's S/A
CD 3 blood work (normal to test my hormones) and 2 hour glucose test (usually helps pinpoint PCOS)
CD 3-7 Clomid
Timed Intercourse
November 22nd follow up unless tests change the plan.
Cycle 2:
Clomid, Timed intercourse, follow up monitoring, and an HSG to make sure my tubes aren't blocked.
Ok, so that was the plan. Then C got his S/A results back.
Normal and great, except abnormal morphology. The nurse says she thinks this means the RE will want to do IUI. Ok, the RE decides she wants to stick with the current plan for now, unless the other tests change the plan.
It's likely the plan is going to change to the IUI next cycle though if I don't get lucky this one.
So that's about it for now. The lab lost C's spit sample, so he had to go back in today and we don't know the results of the genetic test yet.
I start the Clomid tomorrow. I took a picture of the bottle next to a standard spatula. There are only 5 pills in there...
I finally decided to suck it up and head to the RE. I had a referral, but I put it off because I was, well scared.
I called, and surprise, I had an appointment for the following week. This was a relief because it gave me less time to dwell and be anxious.
First thing, I had to fill out a packet where I told them all about me. Like I was told, I filled this out ahead of time, and like any other doctors office, as soon as I got there, I had to fill out something else asking the same questions. When I got there, I had been stuck in traffic and desperately had to use the restroom. This meant they wanted to run a pregnancy test. I rolled my eyes mentally, but of course they had to make sure.
I do that, they ask for a credit card to keep on file, and I laugh internally because I have my medical savings credit card. They can only bill it until the account runs out of money. Hopefully it won't get to that point because then I will have to dig into the real credit card. Scary thought.
They call me in, and then the nurse asks me the same questions. Cancer in the family? Some. Sister fertile? Yep, irritatingly so. How is your marriage? Wonderful. Blood Type? Um, I forget, oops. And i promise to e-mail my FerilityFriend charts to the nurse (crap, I still have to do that).
C then finally shows up because he was also stuck in traffic, so we then head to the RE's cozy little office with multiple dispays of ovaries and uterus(es?).
We chat with the RE, go over some of the SAME questions again. She says the is suspecting Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) but that she needed to run some tests to be sure, along with multiple other tests. After an U/S that showed I have a reverse something or other uterus, and one cyst that looks like a normal post-ovulation one, The RE then decided, until the tests confirmed or denied the treatment choice, that we would follow this plan:
Cycle 1:
Genetics test to check for genetic disorder precursers
C's S/A
CD 3 blood work (normal to test my hormones) and 2 hour glucose test (usually helps pinpoint PCOS)
CD 3-7 Clomid
Timed Intercourse
November 22nd follow up unless tests change the plan.
Cycle 2:
Clomid, Timed intercourse, follow up monitoring, and an HSG to make sure my tubes aren't blocked.
Ok, so that was the plan. Then C got his S/A results back.
Normal and great, except abnormal morphology. The nurse says she thinks this means the RE will want to do IUI. Ok, the RE decides she wants to stick with the current plan for now, unless the other tests change the plan.
It's likely the plan is going to change to the IUI next cycle though if I don't get lucky this one.
So that's about it for now. The lab lost C's spit sample, so he had to go back in today and we don't know the results of the genetic test yet.
I start the Clomid tomorrow. I took a picture of the bottle next to a standard spatula. There are only 5 pills in there...
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