I had my ultrasound today. I still don't know anything, the technicians won't tell you anything so I have to wait to see my Dr. once she gets the report.
Today was also Yoga Day! Every Wednesday at lunch a woman from my work runs a yoga class at the gym. It's a great way to relax and forget all my worries even if it's only for 40 min once a week. I treasure this time and look forward to it each week. Right after Yoga I had to start drinking my 1L of water to prepare for the u/s.
It was torture.
Every time a took a big drink of water I would look at the bottle and wonder why there was still so much left! It was driving me nuts! It probably would have been easier if I had been even a little bit thirsty. I had to finish the 1L of water at least 1 hour before my appointment. I started to get really worried when after my first two drinks of water, I already had to pee... With about 2 minutes to go, I was trying to chug my water and type an email at the same time using one hand to hold the giant water bottle and the other to type.
Once at the lab, they were true to their word and didn't keep me waiting with an extremely uncomfortably full bladder too long. I was taken to a tiny change room, smaller than a clothing store change room, and told to take off my pants and underwear and put on the robe. I then went to the ultrasound room.
As I getting on the table, the tech casually mentions that it is their standard with all pelvic ultrasounds to also do a trans-vaginal ultrasound.
Yep.
"Oh, by the way, we are going to get real personal this afternoon..."
Surprise!
The pelvic ultrasound went by really quickly and painlessly. Even with her pushing on my very full bladder, it wasn't bad. Thankfully, they don't have to do the trans-vag with a full bladder so I was allowed to go to the washroom first.
"Now, the instrument" (Yes she called it the instrument) "only has to be inserted about *this* far. So don't be scared by how big it is"
Doesn't this sound like fun so far?
Then she lubes it up and asks me to insert it. Yes, because that will make this so much more comfortable, if you have me do that part. I mean, it's not like you will be moving it around inside me for the next 10 minutes.
It felt like it took forever. But when I got back in my car, I had only been in there for about 30 minutes all together including changing time and going to the washroom.
Hopefully my Doctor will call me soon with the results. She seemed to be taking a lot of images. I wonder if that is because there was something to there to take images of, or if they normally take that many.
Part of me wants there to be something there. Some sort of explanation that can be treated and dealt with.
I will keep you posted when I hear something.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Fun while it lasted...
Wow, a whole 7 days without spotting.
Just long enough for me to get my hopes up that it had stopped for good. But no.
I guess it 's a good thing I still have that ultrasound on the 30th.
Even though I know how slim our chances were this month... what with only trying once between when the spotting stopped and when I ovulated - and that was the day I ovulated... it's still deflating to see the spotting. I didn't really realize how high my hopes were until they were dashed.
If I'm truly honest with myself, I still have a spark of hope. It's not over till it's over.
And if my logical side is truly honest with myself, it never really started.
Just long enough for me to get my hopes up that it had stopped for good. But no.
I guess it 's a good thing I still have that ultrasound on the 30th.
Even though I know how slim our chances were this month... what with only trying once between when the spotting stopped and when I ovulated - and that was the day I ovulated... it's still deflating to see the spotting. I didn't really realize how high my hopes were until they were dashed.
If I'm truly honest with myself, I still have a spark of hope. It's not over till it's over.
And if my logical side is truly honest with myself, it never really started.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
You Have Two New Messages
Every day for the last 2 weeks I have come home from work and checked my phone to see if the fertility clinic has called me for my initial appointment. Of course, the one night I didn't was the day they called. I got the call on Monday, but didn't get the message until Tuesday after work. I was a little disappointed in that the message only said "Hi, this is Dr. M's office, please call to set up your initial consultation." So I had to wait an entire day (well, evening and overnight) until their office opened again this morning before I could find out what day my appointment was. It nearly killed me.
My appointment is May 13th. Two months from now.
More waiting.
Story of my life.
It could be worse though, I have heard horror stories about people waiting close to 9 months to get into a clinic so I count my self lucky that it's only 2 months.
During these last two weeks of waiting I also have been in to see my GP again. I finally made the call to go see her again, only 6 days after seeing her for the blood work results, because my period had not stopped. By this time I was going on day 16! That's at least 12 days longer than the average woman's menstruation. But it was mostly spotting, I had been spotting since about day 8, and when I saw her on day 10, I figured it HAD to be almost done so I didn't bring it up.
Since January I have had more spotting, both before and after AF, than I ever have before. This month was a little different because it was accompanied by discomfort on my left side only. I normally get mega cramps with AF, but I noticed this month they were almost all on the left side. I thought it might be a cyst so I wanted to have it looked at.
My GP agreed that it could be a cyst and ordered an ultrasound. The ultrasound is on March 30th.
Waiting (the magic word).
Now, following Murphy's Law, the spotting stopped 2 days later. I still have little twinges on my left side so I think there is still something there, but maybe it will go away on it's own.
They do that sometimes... just to screw with you.
They also sometimes have hair or teeth in them... wouldn't that be freaky? To have a tooth growing on your ovary?
Brings a whole new meaning to "Don't worry, I don't bite..."
My appointment is May 13th. Two months from now.
More waiting.
Story of my life.
It could be worse though, I have heard horror stories about people waiting close to 9 months to get into a clinic so I count my self lucky that it's only 2 months.
During these last two weeks of waiting I also have been in to see my GP again. I finally made the call to go see her again, only 6 days after seeing her for the blood work results, because my period had not stopped. By this time I was going on day 16! That's at least 12 days longer than the average woman's menstruation. But it was mostly spotting, I had been spotting since about day 8, and when I saw her on day 10, I figured it HAD to be almost done so I didn't bring it up.
Since January I have had more spotting, both before and after AF, than I ever have before. This month was a little different because it was accompanied by discomfort on my left side only. I normally get mega cramps with AF, but I noticed this month they were almost all on the left side. I thought it might be a cyst so I wanted to have it looked at.
My GP agreed that it could be a cyst and ordered an ultrasound. The ultrasound is on March 30th.
Waiting (the magic word).
Now, following Murphy's Law, the spotting stopped 2 days later. I still have little twinges on my left side so I think there is still something there, but maybe it will go away on it's own.
They do that sometimes... just to screw with you.
They also sometimes have hair or teeth in them... wouldn't that be freaky? To have a tooth growing on your ovary?
Brings a whole new meaning to "Don't worry, I don't bite..."
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Yesterday
I went to the the Doctor's yesterday to talk to her about the tests she ordered a couple of weeks ago and to request a referral to a gynecologist or a fertility clinic. She had already sent a referral to a gynecologist for me last week, so she only went over my test results.
Everything looked fine except my progesterone was a little low. The normal range for a non-pregnant female at Mid-Luteal is 16.4 - 59.0. Mine was 10.2. She didn't really seem worried about that though. She said "it's not above the 16.4, but it is above 10, soooo...." What does that mean? It's not normal, but it's more than half-way to normal! I'm glad that I got the printed results, now I can take it to my naturalpath tomorrow and show them to her and maybe there is something she can do to help with the low progesterone.
The tests my family Doctor did were only a small portion of the tests that need to be done. And D has to be tested too. She said that the GYN would order the tests for him. I was trying to get an idea from her when I might expect an appointment with the GYN and she didn't really know. I got the feeling that she knew it was going to be a long wait, but didn't want to say anything. When I pushed, she did get me their phone number and also the phone number of Fertility Clinics that she could refer me to if I wanted. She suggested that I call some clinics and find one I wanted to work with then give her a call back and she would send the referral.
I still had a while before I had to be back at the office so I called the GYN to find out the status of my referral and to see if they had an idea of when my appointment would be. Ya, they hadn't even looked at my referral yet and probably wouldn't for another 3 weeks and my appointment likely wouldn't be until August. I was so upset when I heard that. I was next to tears all afternoon.
I spend some time researching the clinics that she gave me. Most of them were in Mississauga/Brampton/Burlington, and when going through treatments I will likely have to go in every morning for a couple weeks each cycle for monitoring so going to most of them would be difficult. But one of them has a satellite clinic in Milton; still 1/2 hr away, but doable. I called them this morning and they are booking for April! Much, much sooner than August! So my Dr. was going to fax the referral right away.
So that's were we are right now, waiting to find out when that appointment is. It will probably still be a little while after that initial appointment before we can start any treatments, but I finally feel like we are getting somewhere.
Everything looked fine except my progesterone was a little low. The normal range for a non-pregnant female at Mid-Luteal is 16.4 - 59.0. Mine was 10.2. She didn't really seem worried about that though. She said "it's not above the 16.4, but it is above 10, soooo...." What does that mean? It's not normal, but it's more than half-way to normal! I'm glad that I got the printed results, now I can take it to my naturalpath tomorrow and show them to her and maybe there is something she can do to help with the low progesterone.
The tests my family Doctor did were only a small portion of the tests that need to be done. And D has to be tested too. She said that the GYN would order the tests for him. I was trying to get an idea from her when I might expect an appointment with the GYN and she didn't really know. I got the feeling that she knew it was going to be a long wait, but didn't want to say anything. When I pushed, she did get me their phone number and also the phone number of Fertility Clinics that she could refer me to if I wanted. She suggested that I call some clinics and find one I wanted to work with then give her a call back and she would send the referral.
I still had a while before I had to be back at the office so I called the GYN to find out the status of my referral and to see if they had an idea of when my appointment would be. Ya, they hadn't even looked at my referral yet and probably wouldn't for another 3 weeks and my appointment likely wouldn't be until August. I was so upset when I heard that. I was next to tears all afternoon.
I spend some time researching the clinics that she gave me. Most of them were in Mississauga/Brampton/Burlington, and when going through treatments I will likely have to go in every morning for a couple weeks each cycle for monitoring so going to most of them would be difficult. But one of them has a satellite clinic in Milton; still 1/2 hr away, but doable. I called them this morning and they are booking for April! Much, much sooner than August! So my Dr. was going to fax the referral right away.
So that's were we are right now, waiting to find out when that appointment is. It will probably still be a little while after that initial appointment before we can start any treatments, but I finally feel like we are getting somewhere.
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