So obviously I need to do some catching up since it's been a little over a month since that last post. The next day I decided I had had enough with the ob office and was no longer interested in trusting them with my care. This was beyond not being happy with the doctor herself, this was complete dissatisfaction with the entire office. I was very disappointed. They were affiliated with the hospital that, if we do not do a homebirth like we would like to or if we need to transfer in it would be my choice of hospitals, they have a couple of midwives on staff including two who are very active in the local community in educating women on having an EDUCATED pregnancy and birth whether natural or not. So I was quite disappointed that it hadn't worked out.
I have a few local friends who are also battling infertility. One had just began seeing a new reproductive endocrinologist (RE) who was very highly regarded and she was VERY happy with him so far so I asked her for his information. I called the office and got an appointment for in two weeks. Since I was now on cycle day 3 and am supposed to do Clomid days 3-7, Sean and I discussed whether to go ahead with the Clomid or wait for the appointment to see what the new dr wanted us to do. We decided to go ahead with the Clomid.
On cycle day 6 which was a Sunday, I began having some abdominal pains. They were severe and spreading and we decided about 8pm to go to the emergency room. The ER dr ordered a ct scan and determined the problem was an ovarian cyst. He gave me a prescription for Lortab and sent me home with instructions to see my doctor for followup care.
Now we needed to decide WHO to see for followup care. My pcp? The stupid ob office? The new re I hadn't even seen yet? We decided to first see *IF* I could get in to the new guy. Called the office Monday afternoon and they were able to move my appointment up to Tuesday!
We went in and after an exam and an ultrasound he determined that I did in fact have a small cyst but he was 99.99% certain that the cyst nor anything else gynecological was the source of my pain (which I was still in severe abdominal pain and was eating lortab like candy - NOT like me). Once that was clear we went on to discuss the whole fertility issue in general and came up with a game plan to do a semen analysis on Mr TCI to make sure we weren't dealing with multiple problems and go from there.
We never did definitely pinpoint the cause of the pain. We decided to give it a little time to see if it would go away on it's own, which it did. We did the semen analysis and the results were just fine, the problem is definitely not him. So we went back to see the dr again and decided to do one more round of Clomid, this time bumping the dosage up a bit and doing monitoring to see if it's actually working. We also discussed the potential pcos issue and even though he doesn't seem to *really* think it's a major factor in what's going on, he did also put me on Metformin.
So currently I am on cycle day 6 and have an appointment for the 9th to do the first ultrasound to see if I am trying to get ready to ovulate. I think it will be too early based on info from the last cycles, it appears I have been ovulating around day 18, but we shall see. *nervous*
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