Fingersxed4
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I wanted to start a thread to see if anyone is in a similar boat...I need a buddy!
As a bit of background, we have been TTC for 4 months now with about 6 months of NTNP before that. I came off birth control a year and a half ago and have had extremely irregular cycles ever since. In charting I discovered that I had a very short luteal phase which prompted me to go to see my obgyn for some CD21 bloodwork. My progesterone came back extremely low and my obgyn sent me to a FS.
My insurance threw a roadblock at us saying that they would not cover any diagnostic testing until after Feb when we had been trying for a year. My husband and I decided to pay out of pocket for the day 3 u/s and bloodwork. As suspected, they have determined that I have polycystic ovaries (PCO). They said that it is not PCOS because I do not have the other symptoms associated with the syndrome, only the polycystic ovaries. They believe that the progesterone problem will fix itself as soon as I am ovulating "strong" enough.
My FS is going to resubmit everything to my insurance to see if they will authorize treatment now that there is a diagnosis. Once it is covered, we will do an SA on my husband and I'll have an HSG done.
Just a bit of a rant because my FS keeps saying that I will respond very well to clomid, yet we won't have an answer from insurance in time to do any additional testing this cycle. So that means that the earliest we will do the SA and HSG is next cycle. THEN, hopefully 3 cycles from now I'll be able to start the clomid. Problem is that my last cycle was 40 days....so 3 cycles from now seems like an eternity!
I'm holding out the optimistic hope that we could still do this naturally. My FS doesn't think I'm ovulating every cycle, but this past cycle that they monitored I definitely did, it was just super late (CD31). So my good ole ovaries might be a bit broken but they aren't totally not working!!
Anyone else with PCO that could give me words of wisdom/advice?
As a bit of background, we have been TTC for 4 months now with about 6 months of NTNP before that. I came off birth control a year and a half ago and have had extremely irregular cycles ever since. In charting I discovered that I had a very short luteal phase which prompted me to go to see my obgyn for some CD21 bloodwork. My progesterone came back extremely low and my obgyn sent me to a FS.
My insurance threw a roadblock at us saying that they would not cover any diagnostic testing until after Feb when we had been trying for a year. My husband and I decided to pay out of pocket for the day 3 u/s and bloodwork. As suspected, they have determined that I have polycystic ovaries (PCO). They said that it is not PCOS because I do not have the other symptoms associated with the syndrome, only the polycystic ovaries. They believe that the progesterone problem will fix itself as soon as I am ovulating "strong" enough.
My FS is going to resubmit everything to my insurance to see if they will authorize treatment now that there is a diagnosis. Once it is covered, we will do an SA on my husband and I'll have an HSG done.
Just a bit of a rant because my FS keeps saying that I will respond very well to clomid, yet we won't have an answer from insurance in time to do any additional testing this cycle. So that means that the earliest we will do the SA and HSG is next cycle. THEN, hopefully 3 cycles from now I'll be able to start the clomid. Problem is that my last cycle was 40 days....so 3 cycles from now seems like an eternity!
I'm holding out the optimistic hope that we could still do this naturally. My FS doesn't think I'm ovulating every cycle, but this past cycle that they monitored I definitely did, it was just super late (CD31). So my good ole ovaries might be a bit broken but they aren't totally not working!!
Anyone else with PCO that could give me words of wisdom/advice?
