Long Weekend in Review

I will have to say that I had a great long weekend!  We went to the beach and out to lunch on Friday.  The weather was gorgeous and the pugs love the beach so it was pretty adorable.  We went to our friend's daughter's bday party on Saturday afternoon.  She seemed to like what we got her so that was a major plus.  Next up was my favorite part of the weekend...Chris and I went bowling.  Yes, my arthritis/fibro girl bowled three games.  It was so much fun and different, I am so sick of doing the same shit every night and for 26 dollars for shoes and three hours of bowling we will definitely be going back.

Yesterday we just visited the fam, went to the movies, and had our Easter dinner.   My mom gave me a sample of her new acne medicine that the derm gave her last week so I am giving that a try.  I used it with success as a teenager so hopefully this mess will start to clear up soon.  I am seeing my derm, but not for another few weeks and I am desperate which was why I took some of her stuff.  I generally not a drug thief, I swear:)

Second Opinion Appointment-Updated

Is in less than two weeks!  She could schedule me for next week but I know my supervisor likes a little more notice than that.  They must be seriously slow if they have new patient appointments open for next week.  

Yes, we are still going to wait but I just want to know from someone else if it is as hopeless as my RE was making it out to be.  That is all.  If it isn't then with all the testing I am sure they will want to re-do it will still probalby be July before we get to cycle again.  I have also heard he is big on re-doing laps right before you do IVF if endo is an issue so that would take up some time also. Or, if he says he can't help us then that will be that.  

Have I mentioned lately that I have anxiety issues? LOL! 

Update:  The new RE actually sees new patients at my ob/gyns office in Dover.  I rescheduled and my appointment is next Thursday during lunch which works out perfectely.  The gyn basically said he didn't want to touch my crazy cycles with a ten foot pole and to see what the new RE has to say.

Three month countdown

We are definitely going to call the other RE in May/June.  As of right now we have the insurance to cover it so really its silly at least not to try again, right?  Everyone at my husband's work who has dealt with IF has gone through him and they were all successful.  Why three months?  They say it takes three full months for any herbs/diet changes to have any effect on your egg quality and I want to have the best chance possible when we do try again.  Here is a quick list of what I am taking:

Vitex

Wheatgrass

Red Clover and Red Raspberry herbs

Hopefully my hormones will be in perfect harmony by the time July rolls around and I will have slightly better egg quality.  Losing weight and excercising more I am sure will have a positive impact.  Positive thinking, Kate, positive thinking.  

You may be wondering what is going to happen to the magic pee box?  Well, we are still going to use it for now but if the Vitex works the wonders I read it does hopefully my cycles will not be nearly as irregular in the upcoming months and I won't need it.

04/03/2009

I got my file last night from my old RE.  Here are the highlights

1) I thought I was a lot lighter in 2007 than I actually was.  

2)My fsh has steadily increased from 4 to 6 in the past 2 years.

3) My hcg was not 0 after my IUI cycle, even though I specifically asked the nurse if it was at 0 because around 10dpiui I got a positive test.  It was not 0.  She lied to me and I can't figure out why.

4)They were going to use the same protocol for IVF try #2 even though our quality sucked.

I am sure there was more but those were the highlights.  It was about 100 pages long of labs, consult summaries, ect.  The more and more I think about it, the more sure I am that I at least want to go for a second opinion later this year just to make sure that we tried everything we could.  If he says yeah, your old RE was right there is nothing we can do because it appears your egg suck then so be it.  Until then, I am going to religiously start taking the wheatgrass again and I am going to look into other ways to naturally(herbally) get my cycles back on track.  

So hopefully that will be the last we hear from RE #1 and I can enjoy my spring and summer with my magic pee box and my nasty ass wheatgrass powder.

Drama of my IVF continues

It would seem as though the disaster that was my IVF cycle in December just won't go away.  Now my insurance company is denying the claim from my anesthesiologist.  My RE uses an outside company and states they have never had this problem before.  I freak out midly because of the amount and call the pain management center that did the anesthesia.  They state they appealing it and sending my records over and hopefully it will work out.  I also spoke with the RE's office who said they would look into it but they have alway used this anesthesiologist and it has only been an issue one other time.  If it was not one thing it was another with that office.  I loved the nurses and the doctors but the rest of it just seemed to be a clusterfuck.  

The good news is that they are sending me my file for free!  I am going to take a copy to the ob/gyn next week and then I will have a copy if we ever decide to go for a second opinion(which I have been thinking more and more about lately for next winter).  

It looks like it will all work out in the end, it's just ridiculous that I am still trying to get this all straightened out when my IVF was four months ago!

Too much pee on the stick

I somehow managed to mess up my magic pee box for the month.  It already says that I am getting ready to ovulate on day 11.  I thought it was wrong so I used an old fashioned opk last night and it was negative.  I didn't use my fmu because I forgot so I ended up saturating the crap out of it before I left for work.  Either way, as long as I don't screw with it anymore it will still count my days until I get my period and record it.  Next month I am going to go back to PIAC  first and then dipping the stick.  Yes, I am special sometimes.

My magic pee box

I love this thing!  Again, I am not saying at all that it will get me pregnant but it is soooo much easier than using opks.  I just pee on the strip, pop it in the magic pee box and go back to sleep.  Sweet!

Now that I am not calorie counting I am dropping pounds like flies.  I started at 155 in Dec. and now I am down to 142.2.  Yay!  I think I am way too OCD to count calories.  I would feel bad if I went over on my calories and then say screw it since I already ruined the day.  I learned in the past few months what I should and should not be eating, so I am just going to stick with that.  If I can't get down to my goal weight then maybe I will start up again but I am pretty sure I am still within my range to lose weight most days.  

I am pretty much killing my book challenge for the year!  I think I forgot in the past two years how much I enjoy reading.  Looking back, IF was really sucking all of the fun right out of my life.