Hi K
Fantastic to hear you had a fabby festive holiday! How strange about the test though!!! What sort of time lapsed between the hpt and your blood test? That must have been such a rollercoster hun!
Hope you don't mind me asking, and if you'd rather not say I completely understand, but what was it that made the specialist decide IVF was the best option, your cycles? Forgive me for asking, I am just trying to understand, as we are beginning to consider the IVF route, and it helps to know what reasons different specialists have for advising couples that this is the best option. Despite it being over 2 years of ttc for us, I know our dr wouldn't refer us on to a specialist as we mc'd in September, so they deem us to have only tried for 4months now, grrrrr! We could of course go privately, but as I am seeing the kenisiologist I feel that would be a conflict of interest (western medicine vs traditional therapy). I want to give this kenisiology a good shot, but I'm trying to decide when we should move on...I need that deadline, you know?
I am sooo excited for you about moving forward!
Goodness the beginning of Feb!!!!! Wow hun that's no time!!!! I hear you about not telling everyone. I don't want my DH's family to know about our situation, as his mum, and sisters can be soooo cruel and cutting with their comments, and the whole thing would be my fault, yes they'd definatley aportion blame! Will you ever tell your DH's folks in the future do you think?
I know quite a few people who have gone down the IVF route, and none of them spoke about it openly until afterwards, so I can see why it would be lonely. I know we aren't going through this journey with you physically hun, but we're all here for you emotionally, and you'll be in our thoughts and prayers
I think many of us would be interested in your journey, as you will potentially be the fore-runner for at least me. We/I will be keen to learn about it from you.
Our break was ok, a little difficult. Had a few baby announcements from people that it was hard to hear from (they were not the kindest people we know, but I guess that's just life). I saw the kenisiologist at the beggining of dec, and after lots of examination, testing and looking at my charts, he said he can see my liver is in serious trouble, and this is having a knock-on affect with lots of other organs struggling. My thyroid is also having problems functioning due to this, so this could be a potential cause of our problems. It certainly explains why I've been feeling so ill for so long. When I went for ttc bloods in Oct 2011 my dr said I have 2x abnormal liver function tests, but not to warry as it was just Gilbert's syndrome, and had no symptoms, and no bearing on life at all. She said me feeling so unwell was just stress, even though I tried to explain that the severe nausea began about 3yrs previously, when I was very, very happy. She told me not to look up the condition as a great deal of nonsense had been written about it. I didn't tell Steven (kenisiologist) anything about this at any point. When I got home from seeing Steven I started doing some investigating, and found clinical research in 2008 concluded that the enzyme people have far less of when they have Gilbert's, is the same enzyme used to process environmental toxins, and so it can cause an extreme build up, and lead to serious health implications!
He started me on liver cleansing suppliments and within 24/48 hrs my toes were so sore, swollen and my nails were changing colour. When I saw him 2weeks later he said it was some of the poisons in my liver being dragged down to my feet in my blood stream. I came off them temporarily (as my christmas diet involved lots of sugar etc, and my body is unable to process these toxins with my body so toxic already), and now I will begin taking them again tomorrow, along with cutting out sugar, alcohol, caffeine, fruit, dairy, grains, and legumes. The fruit, dairy, grains and legumes are temporary, and to do with his concern I may have too much candida as I get no 'dry' days in my cycle. I'm making lots of other changes too, yoga, water filter at source, etc.
I just wish I had known about him this time last year, as I feel like the 'long term' treatment plan isn't the quick fix we are used to in western medicine. I suppose I should just be grateful to have found him at all. My biological clock is ticking sooo loudly in my ear though, that I feel a bit panicky.
He said we should stop ttc, as my body probably can't cope with a baby, but as selfish as it sounds I just don't know if I can...do you think I'm crazy? He said it could set us back, but my DH and I agree that the extra stress of 'missing potential opportunities' might be too much to take at this stage.
Sending you lots of
and Baby Dust!
its not good.
n is anybody still using the cbfm and anyone care to join me maybe we could have a :cuppa: n a chat x
,I'm still chugging along trying to get my bfp its been 6 months since mc and nothing since so am hoping its surely gotta be around the corner, am thinking of trying some conception prenatal but not sure which yet ,have stopped using the cbfm as couldn't get sticks in time for cycle days n then moved house n god knows where it is now but have been using opk s n usually of around cd17 as usual so apart from cycle before last being only 26 days everything is ticking along.
