Update, and all that...

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Hi everyone,

Firstly, let me apologise for not writing sooner, but for some reason I

am not receiving mail, sending works fine , but nothing comes in, so I

have just read all of the posts on egroups.

Tara, I am soooooo sorry that AF found you too this month... leaving us

two onto next month. Atleast we can do it together. I am now CD#2, so we

are practically on the exact same cycle this time..

,

I am holding everything that you get your +++++++++++++++++ today. Let

us know what happens, you are in my thoughts and prayers.

Joanne,

I am sorry to hear you are having such a hard time, try not to worry too

much, I know it is hard.... I will be thinking of you and your little

baby, and I will send up a special prayer just for the 2 of you. Good

luck, sweetie, try to be positive.

To everyone......

I had my gynea. appointment yesterday afternoon, and all in all it was

a good one... He did a truly thorough exam, with both an abdominal and

vaginal (YUCK!!) scan. It was a bit uncomfortable, as I have my period,

but not too bad.

He was very concerned about the pains I've been having, so he did not

want to wait untill the end of AF... My blood pressure is a bit better,

though still strange at 110 over 60 compared to 95 over 70 on Monday,

and a usual of 120 over 90...

MY pulse is apparantly a bit high, but I reckon it was just coz I was so

nervous.

He could not find any reasonable explanation for the pains, but he did

find quite a few cysts on both my ovaries, which we could see clearly

on the sonar (vaginal) they looked like big black dots on my ovaries. My

right ovary is slightly enlarged, which he didn't understand. The left

on is about the size of a prune, and the right one just smaller than a

golf ball.

Good thing though, is that from what he could tell on the scans, my

tubes look good.(from the outside)

Because I have my period, he could also see my uterine lining, and he

measured it as well . It is apparantly slightly thicker than usual, but

still in normal range...

What he wants to do now, is he put me on meds. which he hopes will clear

up the pains, and then in 2 weeks time, if I still get the pains, he

wants to do an beta HCG blood test (to rule out pg.) and then take me

straight in for a HSG and lap. to check things out further, he also

wants to run some hormone checks and analyse a sample of my uterine

lining. He thinks that I may have PCOS (coz of the cysts he could see on

my ovaries) or maby slight endometriosis.

Apart from that, he has given me a OPK, and told me to carry on charting

this month, as well as use the OPK, and then ( this is if the pain is

sorted out) give it 8 weeks (2 more cycles) and then he will put me

straight onto clomid, and so on.

All this is a bit scary, but I feel so much better now that I am getting

the kind of support I feel I need, and also that there is finally hope

in sight. My only fear is PCOS, but if it does turn out to be that,

atleast I know why things have been the way they have, and then I won't

waste anymore time on ttc. naturally. MY dh. and I will still have to

sit down and discuss whether we will go onto things like IVF, if it does

turn out to be that way. I will just be glad to finally have some

answers, the rest we will deal with when we come to it.

MY dh. was so great at the app. yesterday. He sat with me the whole time

with the sonars, and asked a 101 questions, which is good, coz I tend to

clam up. He is the one who told the doc that we want a plan of action

now, we won't go home with a simple, " carry on, and see " answer again.

The gynea. said that he is 100% for me starting clomid straight away,

but I agreed with him that we should maby first sort out the pain thing

before going there, otherwise it might just be a total waste of time.

Anyways, 8 weeks isn't that long, and atleast now I will have full

support medically, this cycle, and I feel good about using the OPK.

As for the temp. they did drop considerably the day I got AF. The gynea.

was a bit concerned about the fact that they have been so high up to the

drop, but he thinks that it may just have been a missed implantation. It

definately wasn't a miscarriage in the sense, but he recons that we may

have had fertilization. I am not going to dwell on that though, coz we

will never know for sure, and it does happen so often, and if we did

manage to have fertilization, then atleast I know it can happen, and

that it may not be PCOS, but just endo.

anyways, there you have the whole story.

thanks again for all your support. Hopefully my email hassles will be

sorted out by tomorrow.

take care

sonja