Opinions Wanted!
Okay, so Ken and I have kinda been lazily been trying to make a baby since Thanksgivingish. Lazily as in I stopped the pill and life is going on with more of an "if it happens, it happens" attitude. I'm not doing any of the BBT or fluid change watching or anything just yet.
Most of my life I've had very irregular periods. As in every 3-6 months. I started the pill to help keep the cycles in check. It worked marvelously, I totally knew every month when to expect it etc.
Now that I'm off the pill it seems to have gone back to that "who the hell knows when it'll come" pattern. My last one was Christmas (5 weeks after stopping the pill, a week later than I was expecting/hoping for it). I have no idea if/when I'm ovulating. I haven't had any noticeable symptoms for pregnancy really in that time.
I have the referral to the endocrinologist again, I know we can work on all that information with him when he orders the blood work (he's not going to be happy with me, but that's another story).
So ... my question is in the meantime and/or between-times of visits etc. I can't decide whether I should take a test every few weeks just in case or if I should just stay Blissfully Ignorant of it all. Occasionally I get kinda nauseous because of meds and my abdominal area has been hurting lately but I haven't noticed anything else that could remotely be associated with it. Mind you, I am doing the whole "live as if you're already pregnant" thing. I gave up drinking anything alcoholic, keep away from fish/seafood (I know most you're okay to eat 6oz or something a week but I'd rather not have to remember which ones I can't etc so I just cut out the very small amount I was eating - mostly lobster/shrimp/scallops), etc.
I'm not taking a specific prenatal, I'm taking a diabetes-geared supplement pack at the moment (which has folic acid, I believe the recommended dose). Aside from moving to a prenatal, finding out one way or another wouldn't really change my daily habits.
When I saw my PCP in early Dec and let her know what we were doing (thinking she'd get me the referral to the OB/Gyn) she said it was too early yet for the referral (hence why I'm not asking an OB this yet). My main concern with taking tests regularly is the unhappiness that'll come with all the negative tests - and I am prone to kinda severe bouts of depression (2009 I stopped taking all of my diabetes meds for a month because I thought when Ken said he wasn't ready he meant I wasn't ready. And with me knowing it's likely my body failing me, negative tests have a potential to be bad for my brain). My main concern with NOT taking the tests regularly is that I'm already high-risk because of the diabetes and really, it's kinda necessary for me to know as soon as I can to protect the baby.
I just don't know. Bah.