Update on my life
Well, it's been going pretty good lately, barring the bills and health problems. My husband and I've just celebrated our first anniversery on July 15. We're still trying to get pregnant, but not having any sucess. Since we got married, my periods have been very eratic. Up until then, I've been pretty regular, once a month, just like clock-work. Then, I get married and that all goes down the tubes.
First, I skip 3 months, so we hoped for the best. But, no go. Every pregnancy test I took turned out negative. Then, I get my period for 4 weeks. Then I skip, then long period, well, you get the picture.
I thought that maybe it was my thyroid gland. It can effect periods, but the tests show that everythings fine. Then maybe it's stress, but I've really haven't felt more then the usual stuff that goes with real life. I mean, it's kinda freaking me out about the weird cycles, but other then that, nothing's really changed.
So, I finally got a referal to a OB/GYN. So, he orders a bunch of tests, blood, ultra-sound, the works. His thoughts were it could either be early menopause - I'm only 37 - , I might not be ovulating every month, or something might be wrong with my overies and uterus.
Well, all the tests showed negitive. I'm not pre-menopausal, nothings wrong with my insides. So, it might be that I'm not ovulating every month. So, he gave me two medicines to take. One will start my period, my last one ended June 22, and it had been 66 days before that happened. The second one is a fertilitiy drug. I'm hoping that it will work.
So, I took my first pill, Medroxypr today. I take this for 10 days and hopefully, my period will show up soon. The second medication is Clomiphene. I'm suppose to take it on the 3rd day of my period to the 7th. And I'm suppose to count the days of the cycle. First day of my period is day one. Then I take the Clomiphene from days 3-7. Then on between days 14 to 19 we have sex. Lots and lots of sex, because then, hopefully, I'll be ovulating. Then we wait. If I don't get a period, then I take a pregnancy test and if it's positive, then YEA! I'm with child. If it's negative, or I get another period, then I call the doc and he prescribes a stronger dose of Clomiphene and we start all over again. If after a few more tries and no go, he'll refer me to an infertility doctor who deals in high risk pregnancies.
I used to think that it would be easy to get pregnant, that's why I was always careful not to get knocked up before I was married. So, now I'm finally hitched and no go. My sister had five kids and not problems getting pregnant. Kids as young as 14 can be mothers without even trying or wanted the kids. Now me, I want kids, time is running out, and nothing. Nada. Zip.
It's enough to drive me crazy. Maybe I'm missing something. Maybe I should get good and drunk. Maybe then it'll happen. After all, there's lots of kids running around as a result of a little (or a lot) of beer.
I'm gonna go and count my eggs as they die on the vine.
First, I skip 3 months, so we hoped for the best. But, no go. Every pregnancy test I took turned out negative. Then, I get my period for 4 weeks. Then I skip, then long period, well, you get the picture.
I thought that maybe it was my thyroid gland. It can effect periods, but the tests show that everythings fine. Then maybe it's stress, but I've really haven't felt more then the usual stuff that goes with real life. I mean, it's kinda freaking me out about the weird cycles, but other then that, nothing's really changed.
So, I finally got a referal to a OB/GYN. So, he orders a bunch of tests, blood, ultra-sound, the works. His thoughts were it could either be early menopause - I'm only 37 - , I might not be ovulating every month, or something might be wrong with my overies and uterus.
Well, all the tests showed negitive. I'm not pre-menopausal, nothings wrong with my insides. So, it might be that I'm not ovulating every month. So, he gave me two medicines to take. One will start my period, my last one ended June 22, and it had been 66 days before that happened. The second one is a fertilitiy drug. I'm hoping that it will work.
So, I took my first pill, Medroxypr today. I take this for 10 days and hopefully, my period will show up soon. The second medication is Clomiphene. I'm suppose to take it on the 3rd day of my period to the 7th. And I'm suppose to count the days of the cycle. First day of my period is day one. Then I take the Clomiphene from days 3-7. Then on between days 14 to 19 we have sex. Lots and lots of sex, because then, hopefully, I'll be ovulating. Then we wait. If I don't get a period, then I take a pregnancy test and if it's positive, then YEA! I'm with child. If it's negative, or I get another period, then I call the doc and he prescribes a stronger dose of Clomiphene and we start all over again. If after a few more tries and no go, he'll refer me to an infertility doctor who deals in high risk pregnancies.
I used to think that it would be easy to get pregnant, that's why I was always careful not to get knocked up before I was married. So, now I'm finally hitched and no go. My sister had five kids and not problems getting pregnant. Kids as young as 14 can be mothers without even trying or wanted the kids. Now me, I want kids, time is running out, and nothing. Nada. Zip.
It's enough to drive me crazy. Maybe I'm missing something. Maybe I should get good and drunk. Maybe then it'll happen. After all, there's lots of kids running around as a result of a little (or a lot) of beer.
I'm gonna go and count my eggs as they die on the vine.