A Little Bit of Good News

When I went to see my RE this past time, she did a bunch of blood work and tested my AMH (anti-Mullerian hormone) to see how my egg reserve was doing. It can also be an indicator of severity of PCOS. Levels less than 1 are not good and are indicative of low fertility due to low egg reserve, usually seen in older women. Levels over 3.5 are indicative of PCOS and studies suggest that people with levels greater than 3.5 are more at risk for developing cysts and ovarian hyperstimulation when fertility meds are used. My level came back at 2.25, which is good and suggests that I might not have PCOS, or if I do have PCOS, it might be a fairly mild case! :) Yay....always good to get some good news!

In other news...I'm on day 5 of 10 of the Prometrium and already I feel so much better on it than last month when I took Provera! Maybe the RE was right and Prometrium does work better because it's natural instead of the synthetic Provera. Whatever the difference is caused by, it's A-OK by me -- I'm not nearly as bloated, bitchy, and exhausted! My wife appreciates this....LOL. Thanks Prometrium! :)

The Road to the Baby Boo...

Sooo....part of the reason I started this blog is to document our journey to "Mommyhood"! B and I have been together for 6 1/2 years and we're ready to start a family! We've found a fantastic doctor (reproductive endo) and we had our first appointment last week. I have a fairly mild case of PCOS, but it complicates the situation a tiny bit since I'm not "normal"....whatever the Hell that is right?!? lol

Anywho...our doctor came up with a plan for the next 2 months before our first IUI, and the plan starts tomorrow!

Here's what we've planned out....

* Jan. 20-30: Prometrium

* After AF visits, start 1 month of BCP's

* Schedule HSG for February (not looking forward to this, but doc wanted to check my tubes and make sure IUI's weren't in vain)

* After AF visits again, start Clomid

* Blood work and US's in March (not sure how much bloodwork/ultrasounds -- I think I started to black out at this point)

* All leading up to our first (and God-willing last) IUI mid-March!!

We're going to be using donor sperm....obviously.... :) So now we've begun the task of sifting through donors and trying to decide what's important! We think we've found a good one, but we'll see....new papa-cicles are being added to the database all the time :). Ah....such a romantic process....lol....riiiight!!

Welcome To My Blog!

Ok...so what do people write for their first blog posting?? I think an "All About Me" section would be incredibly boring so maybe I'll just start out with a quick and embarrassing story from my day....

We'll call this story.... Touched By A Tranny....

I have just recently acquired potentially the crappiest job possible at my company. My previous department has been "downsized", so in order to maintain employment, I moved to the scheduling department. Talk about boring....needless to say, I'm feverishly searching for another job....

So I had to call up a patient to set up an appointment, and it went something like this:

LOW VOICE: Hello?

ME: Hi, this is Susan from (insert my company) is this Mr. X?

LOW VOICE: Um...no, this is his wife Mrs. X.

ME: Oh, I'm sorry....is your husband at home?

LOW VOICE: Is this about the doctor appointment?

ME: Yes ma'am...I'm calling to schedule him for his procedure.

LOW VOICE: I believe you're calling about my appointment.

ME: Oh, are you Atell?

LOW VOICE: Yes.

ME: Oh....I'm sorry again...

So let me get this straight, first I call this poor woman SIR because she has a voice like a tranny, and then I proceed to allude to the fact that her name sounds like a man's name! HA!

Great.....I love this job.....can't wait to see who I can insult tomorrow!!