saw my ob today, who i love. long story short, again since i am on my phone, he is giving me a script for prometrium and wants to do the timed blood draws. too late for this month, so we will do that for next.
he also suggested iui, but we are obviously not there yet and he understands that.
there was more, but i will update later. this is annoying being on my phone, lol.
good luck, supa! i hope it all helps and i'm sending you lots of get pregnant fast vibes! we are planning to try to get pregnant again too, but can't try until i have had a period after the mc. i think i just ovulated and so will hopefully have one in 2 weeks or so. i was surprised that he offered to give me a progesterone shot and pills next time even though it was my first mc. i'm not sure if i want to try that yet or not.
Crystal, I am glad to hear you are going to try again, and I hope you get a sticky bean very quickly! Does your OB think that is what happened? I think my OB feels that it can't hurt, so let's give it a try. He said there really aren't any dangers to using it-but mine are suppositories, not shots and pills. Maybe those are more potent.
Why do doctors recommend waiting after a m/c? If you are not ready to talk about it, ITU. I have just always wondered about that-but I don't want to be insensitive.
My OB said that he was glad I am charting, but that often women's charts don't tell him everything he needs to know-so he was glad that I had used OPKs this past month. He said it gave him an important piece of the puzzle and showed that I am ovulating-and my LP was 14 days this months, so he said both of those were very good info.
He is funny-he came in and said he likes to jump to conclusions, since he is a man and all, so he went straight to the IUI. He told me it was my greatest chance of getting pregnant, but he wasn't sure how important it was to us to get pregnant quickly-everyone is different. Bill will probably never agree to anything like IUI-he just doesn't care enough about having another one-so we opted to go this other route. So we'll try the progesterone suppositories this month, then I'll have a Day 3 blood draw (just like you had mentioned, Megan!) on my next cycle to test my ovary reserve, and then a day 21 (well, 7 days after O) draw for progesterone levels. And we will go from there. He wasn't too terribly concerned at this point-he said we still had time and that fertility does drop at my age (35) and chronic illness *can* affect it too, but that usually they see things really drop off at about 38.
The other thing he said was that he didn't think our timing was stellar. We DTD on my second day of + OPK, and he said we should have DTD on the first AND second day. (I had two days of +, 3 total) He doesn't think there is much weight in timing for a boy vs timing for a girl. But he did say if we go the IUI route, there are places that spin the swimmers quickly before insertion to up your chances of one gender or another. It costs extra of course.
So we'll see what happens. Hopefully everything will come together on its own. I really want a 3rd, but I know Bill doesn't want to go to great lengths so if it doesn't happen with minimal intervention, I will have to just move past the whole thing.
Oh-one last thing is that we talked about the timing for me in terms of my health. I explained my POV about having a due date that falls during my iffy time of year-and he said he disagreed with that. He felt I could potentially feel much better during pregnancy (no guarantees, of course) and it could end up being a good thing, but he understood where I was coming from in terms of my worry about too much stress and such.
How have you been on that front, btw, Crystal? Has your health been stable? I have noticed since I cut dairy almost completely out, I am feeling much better. Not perfect, and stress still does me in, but it definitely helps. Are you still trying to be gluten free?
Anyway, this is long-but I am sending you tons of baby vibes too-bright pink ones!!! :D
I don't think he really thinks that is what happened, he just thinks it can't hurt. But, it made me nervous because he said something about how they used to give estrogen and then 20 years later they found out that baby girls that were born that way a bunch of the ended up with cancer later in life (i can't remember the whole story). anyway, that made me a little apprehensive. he said that progesterone is safe at the moment, but it is hard to say what will happen 20 years from now... kind of freaked me out. but, i also REALLY do not want to go through another mc again. he said that taking progesterone greatly reduces the chances of an early miscarriage.
i am considering trying the OPK's, but haven't decided on that either. i don't want to get too caught up in it and would like to just have a lot of sex and see what happens :) but, part of me feels "rushed" to get pregnant again because i think it will make me feel better about the mc.
i'm surprised he recommende IUI already! i guess at our age they just jump right in to trying to help. as far as bill not being up for it, that is how efe is too. he didn't even want another one for years. now he has changed his mind and i feel like i need to take advantage of it fast! also, i now feel like i *need* another one. before i always thought it would be nice, but after the mc, i feel like something is missing.
i'm not sure if you remember, but i was really sick before i got pregnant with mason. after getting preg, all my symptoms cleared! i hope the same thing happens for you. i think it is not too uncommon with the autoimmune diseases that they go into remission during pregnancy. i feel so blessed that i have been healthy ever since. i still go mostly gluten free. but, i have it on occassion. it is funny because if i eat too much of it, i will start grinding my teeth so hard that my jaw aches really bad. so, that is a good motivator to keep it out of my life.
thanks for the baby vibes, i am sending them to you too!!! i hope this next cycle will do it for you!
