HappyAuntie
LTTTC#1 after 5 mcs
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AFM I have had the most vile cold since Friday and today is the first day of feeling normal again. Its weird as this happened when I was downregging on my first IVF cycle and we put it down to being in cold UK in November but this time I am in 44 degrees in Bahrain so doesn't make sense. Anyways glad that I am now on the mend as stimming starts on Monday so need to be strong and healthy for that stage.
Very strange... I wonder if it's just part of your body's reaction to the downregging? But no matter - I'm glad you're feeling better and ready to start stimming! FX'd for you that everything goes like gangbusters.
Really looking forward to it now and have managed to deal with the negative emotions or worry over m/c. At the end of the day it may well happen again or it may not so there is no point in worrying too much about it. This whole TTC business is something that is out of my control and to me that has been the hardest thing to deal with as I make a very good living out of providing solutions to peoples day to day problems and yet I cannot solve my own. For me that was the big hurdle for me to overcome and accept that this is something that I cannot control to the degree I would like, we can all put in place plans to help things along but nothing is certain in this journey. Instead I have to have faith that my time will come and just hope and pray that it is soon.
Accepting the loss of control was a big step for me, too. In the end you just have to learn to ignore all the anecdotal stuff you read (on here and elsewhere) about preventing mc because as long as you're taking your prenatal vitamins, there is virtually nothing anyone can do to prevent mc. The uplifting part of that, though, is it also means there is virtually nothing anyone can do to cause a mc... helps me release a lot of the guilt and let go of wondering "what if" or "if only". Miscarriage just falls into the 'sh*t happens' category of life, no way around that.
I'm glad you're feeling better about it. My advice to you is just to know that even though you're feeling better in general, there will still (and always) be bad days where the sadness will come back... some days it creeps in and hangs around the shadows, some days it hits out of the blue like a truck... there's nothing you can do to avoid or prevent those days, and when they come it's best just to acknowledge those feelings and let them be - don't try to fight them or push them away. Feelings are something to have, not to judge. And the more we try to fight them off, the more they hang around.... But with time they come less and less often, which I think you've seen for yourself.
AFM, I'm working from home waiting for FedEx to deliver my gonal-f and ovidrel injections. Do any of you other ladies get your medication from Freedom Pharmacy? Its a discount pharmacy for fertility meds. It is a lot cheaper than the regular pharmacy.
I have insurance coverage for my meds but it comes with restrictions, one of them being that I have to use the insurance company's mail-order pharmacy. And every single time, it's a giant pain in the a$$! Their customer service is horrible, and every time I have to call and confirm they got the Rx from the dr office and then they tell me that the orders are processed in the order received and mine is at the bottom of the pile and I'll have my meds in two weeks, and then I have to call my dr office and have them call Aetna back and harass them that I have to have the meds the next day and get them to rush the processing. It's a ridiculous run-around. The customer service rep even got snippy with me when I tried to explain to her that I can't know I need the drugs or what drugs I need until a day or two before I need them, so there's no way to order them two weeks in advance - she snapped back that she only handles fertility drugs and she knows how they work - inside my head I was screaming at her "if you know how they work, why are you making it so difficult?!?!"
Welcome back, Praying - glad to see you! Have a good day everyone!