Wow...where to begin. I guess since this blog is supposed to be about trying to conceive #2 with PCOS, I should start there.
Well, my periods were never really normal, not a typical 28 day cycle but they were often enough as a teenager to drive me crazy. Then when I was 18 I started birth control and this did help regulate them. It also helped me to put on a few extra pounds. Then I started to skip the last week of BC pills to skip Aunt Flo. I started dating my husband about 6 months before my 19th birthday. We dated for 5 1/2 months and then we got engaged. About a year and a half later I stopped taking my BC. I'm not real sure why. We didn't want to have a baby, but I figured I would have a baby when God saw fit.
Well thankfully, we made it to the wedding day with out a baby. Since going off of BC, my cycles were 3 months long. That was how often I would have one with the BC so I thought my body just regulated itself to every 3 months.
A little over a year after being married we found out we were pregnant. It was a fairly easy pregnancy....until we hit 7 months. I went into pre-term labor. I was in the hospital for a over week. The doctors had given me medicine to stop the labor but would not let me leave. Then on the 8th day there, I went into labor again and at 1:11AM on February 6, 2003, our precious Doodlebug was born, 7 1/2 weeks early. She was healthy!!! Breathing on her own, a whopping 5 1/2 pounds and 19 inches long!!! She had Mr. Wonderful's chin, dark hair and long fingers and toes. It was clear that I was just merely the incubator!!! None of me at all!!! (My genes finally made their appearance within her attitude, LOL) We were fortunate that she only had to remain in the hospital for 10 days and then was able to come home. She has been surprising everyone and continuing to things in her time and doesn't care what the "norm" is. But it has been and amazing 8 1/2 years!!!
We definitely didn't want to have another one right away. I decided to get the Depo shot so I wouldn't have to worry about remembering to take a pill everyday and take care of a newborn. THAT WAS A MISTAKE!!!! I gained so much weight afterwards and I didn't have a period at all. I only got one more after that and then we just used condoms as prevention because I didn't want to take the shot anymore. When I stopped going to get the shot my periods just never really came back. When Doodlebug was about 2 1/2, Mr. Wonderful and I agreed that we may be ready to have another one.
I knew something wasn't quite right. I should have been having a period much more often than what I was. They just kept getting farther and farther apart until I was having about 1 a year!!! I know, I know!! Why didn't I go to the doctor sooner, right?? This is something that I have tried to ask myself so many times. I think it was for a couple of different reasons. A - I didn't have health insurance. Mr. Wonderful and Doodlebug were covered but it would have cost twice as much to add me to Mr. Wonderful's plan at his job. B - I think as much as I wanted another baby, I was definitely even more terrified to actually have one. I felt like I was incredibly lucky and blessed with the out come of Doodlebugs early delivery and there was no way that I could be that lucky again. There was no known reason for her to arrive early, so there is no guarantee.
So eventually, I started doing research on my own and diagnosed myself with PCOS a couple of years ago. It made everything make sense. Why I couldn't seem to loose weight no matter what I did. Why I had these horrible thick hairs growing on my chin. Why I didn't have a period. Why I wasn't pregnant after 5 years. It all made sense.
So Mr Wonderful got a new job that has affordable insurance. We bought our first house and celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary and Doodlebugs 8th birthday. So I decided I needed to stop just waiting for something to miraculously happen and make it happen myself. So I found a PCP that I liked and told her that I suspected that I had PCOS. She sent me for blood work and at my follow up she said that she agreed. She could put me on Metformin to help with insulin but I needed to go to OB for help with everything else. In march I went to the OB. She added Provera to my med to make AF show up. In May I started my first cycle with Clomid. I take it on day 5-9 of my cycle to make me ovulate. I just completed my second cycle and no positive pregnancy test yet. But I did have my first positive ovulation test this past cycle which was amazing. I don't think I've ovulated in the past 8 years!!! Ha ha ha!! It was so exciting.
So now I have one more round of Clomid and if it doesn't work then we will have to see a reproductive endocronologist. Which of course our insurance doesn't cover. But I did just find out that a medical college in the area is actually doing a clinical study on PCOS and testing clomid and femara (another fertility medication) to see which one helps more with women and PCOS and getting pregnant. I have emailed the contact for the study to get more info and see if Mr. Wonderful and I can participate.
So that brings you up to speed on just about everything, so I guess on to the FUTURE!!!
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