I quickly realize there's no way of catching up after 10 days absence...d'oh!
Thanks for any well wishes sent my way, hugs to all those who got AF, and dust to all those still TTC, and well wishes to the PG.
Waves I'm so sorry you had a MC!
My condolences and prayers for you and your family! I hope you get your results back soon so you can move forward! FX'd for a rainbow baby soon!
Cassidy I hope your DH's surgery goes smoothly, and I'm sorry it has to come to that. And sorry the docs are driving you batty!
Hope they can at least find out what's wrong with him after the surgery!
AFM:
I was really glad to get my antibiotics and MRI so soon, but the antibiotic combined with how tired I already was from being sick with the bladder infection made me so fatigued and foggy I eventually stopped even having the energy or attention span to chart! (It was all I could do to get to the MRI and any doctor or counseling appts I had.) Hence, why I haven't been on again till today, when my course of antibiotics is finally over. Other than the fatigue, the side effects of the Bactrim (that's what they gave me) weren't too bad. I had some nausea if I didn't eat and esp. drink plenty, and some diarrhea every now and then, but it wasn't bad. The bladder infection was pretty bad so it wasn't until yesterday that the pain finally totally went away. I'm hoping the Bactrim took care of it and it won't come back, because that was rough going!
The MRI went well, and is all clear (no tumors or abnormalities in my scan), yay!
I was still nervous during the scan and being confined, but Bea's and Nikki's advice made it go very smooth (Nikki gave advice too, IIRC, and Bea is another fellow high prolactin gal on the boards). I know for sure Nikki gave me words of support, so thank you, regardless!
I wore a sleep mask to keep from peaking while in the machine, and the shielding from the light and not being able to look at the confined space really helped. I brought a funny book on tape to listen to while the scan was going on, and that helped a lot too. And I took a Xanax, because the feeling of the magnetic waves (or whatever) gave me a funny hair standing on end feeling and the noises were a bit jarring, even having prepared for them by watching the videos on youtube (which helped, it would have been even more jarring otherwise). But, I didn't have to push the panic button once!
I just got my prescription for the cabergoline/dostinex, and I only have to take 0.5 mg once a week, on Sundays! The lower the dose, the less chance of intolerable side effects, and the cheaper it is, so yay!
So, now I'm just waiting until AF shows next Tuesday or so, and then it will be on to the new and improved phase II of natural TTC. According to my research, after the lap, I've got a 50/50 shot of getting PG by the end of the 6 mos. we will continue to TTC natural, so hopefully it happens by the end of that, so I can save time and money and not have to move on to IUI or IVF.
Honestly, I've had so much medical adventure lately, that I'm not feeling pressed to be PG very soon, at the moment, though. If it could happen in 6 months, that would be awesome, and I'll be thrilled whenever it does, but I'm feeling content to be patient, at the moment. I hope it lasts. I'd rather be patient and hopeful, rather than impatient and worried. I've also told DH that I'm only going to remind him once that it's a BD day (I'll still be making a calendar for him too, since he wants one) and after that the ball is in his court and if he wants a baby, he better come at me, LOL. We are going to attempt to try every 2 days from after AF is over till it gets close to AF, so we don't have to worry about when O is, we should hit it whenever it happens. FX'd.
showed up again. Im going to try and BD more next cycle
