Re: I'm Back! Unbelievable!

[Karen]

Joanna Kimball wrote:

>
> Joanna
> Meriwether, 6
> Honour, 4
> EDD 6/4/04

Wow, Joanna! I remember you! I think you and I were pregnant for a little while
together back in '99.
I'm part of the waiting-for-a-baby-any-minute group right now-due Sept 10 with
#6. Glad to see you back and sending
you sticky vibes**********************************

Karen

[Joanna Kimball]

"Karen" > wrote in message
...
> Joanna Kimball wrote:

> Wow, Joanna! I remember you! I think you and I were pregnant for a little
while
> together back in '99.
> I'm part of the waiting-for-a-baby-any-minute group right now-due Sept 10
with
> #6. Glad to see you back and sending
> you sticky vibes**********************************

Thanks, Karen--I wasn't pregnant in '99, had Honour in '98, but I was
certainly around at that point. I'm glad to see you again and hope #6 comes
fast and slick as a whistle :-). Thanks for the sticky vibes--here's hoping
they work!

Joanna
Meriwether, 6
Honour, 4
EDD 6/4/04

[Irish Marie]

"Joanna Kimball" <thenospacekimballsatintergatedotcom> wrote in message
news:3f4fc590_4@newsfeed...
> Hello again to oldies like me and hello also to those I don't know yet.
>
> My name is Joanna Kimball and I've been on and off this group for, geez,
> seven years or so. Since BCFOAI (before Candy found out about Isabel, for
> those few that remember that story!).
>
> I have two girls, six and four, but had left the group a couple of years
ago
> because I was going through secondary infertility (PCOS) and couldn't deal
> with all the pregnancy posts.
>
> To make a long story short, I've spent the last couple of years getting
> myself as healthy as I can--we didn't want to do traditional fertility
meds,
> so I've been seeing a homeopath, taking herbs, and going on a very strict,
> very healthy diet to address my PCOS. I lost 40 lbs, began ovulating
> regularly, and (you can guess what comes next)...am now back for REAL!
>
> It's still early, early days (I'm three days late, but have been testing
> postive since 12 dpo) so I am trying not to get overconfident (especially
as
> I have had rather an epidemic of very faint positives that never made it
> past 14 dpo), but this one feels "real"--I'm overheated constantly, peeing
> every second, and feeling queasy in the afternoons, and I got much darker
> second lines for this one, with the final one (I took four tests--seeing
> that second line is very addicting!) being almost as dark as the control.
>
> So for now, hooray! Even if this pregnancy doesn't go to term, I *can* get
> pregnant, and that's a super success for me.
>
> I'll post more about my current looking-for-a-natural-birth-experience
> problem in another post, but meanwhile good to see everyone and I look
> forward to being around for a while.
>
> Joanna
> Meriwether, 6
> Honour, 4
> EDD 6/4/04
>
>
Welcome back Joanna, here's some healthy pregnancy vibes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
hope you get to stick around.
:-)

--
Marie
Mum of 3
DD born 03/98, DS1 born 11/99 DS2 born 08/03

[Alphawave]

Joanna says:

> So for now, hooray! Even if this pregnancy doesn't go to term, I *can*
> get pregnant, and that's a super success for me.

Excellent! Best of luck, and I hope this one sticks for you. :-)

> Joanna
> Meriwether, 6

And btw, I remember you -- I always liked the name you chose for your
first. :-)

-- Alpha
alphawave at earthlink dot net

[Taniwha grrrl]

"Joanna Kimball" <thenospacekimballsatintergatedotcom> wrote
in message

> Joanna
> Meriwether, 6
> Honour, 4
> EDD 6/4/04
>

Congratulations Joanna! Welcome back it's so nice to hear
from you again, and with such wonderful news too :o)
Hears to a healthy and happy 9 months


--
Andrea

If I can't be a good example, then I'll just have to be a
horrible warning.

[Laurie]

Joanna Kimball wrote in message <3f4fc590_4@newsfeed>...
>Hello again to oldies like me and hello also to those I don't know yet.
>
>My name is Joanna Kimball and I've been on and off this group for, geez,
>seven years or so. Since BCFOAI (before Candy found out about Isabel, for
>those few that remember that story!).
>
>I have two girls, six and four, but had left the group a couple of years
ago
>because I was going through secondary infertility (PCOS) and couldn't deal
>with all the pregnancy posts.
>
>To make a long story short, I've spent the last couple of years getting
>myself as healthy as I can--we didn't want to do traditional fertility
meds,
>so I've been seeing a homeopath, taking herbs, and going on a very strict,
>very healthy diet to address my PCOS. I lost 40 lbs, began ovulating
>regularly, and (you can guess what comes next)...am now back for REAL!
>
>It's still early, early days (I'm three days late, but have been testing
>postive since 12 dpo) so I am trying not to get overconfident (especially
as
>I have had rather an epidemic of very faint positives that never made it
>past 14 dpo), but this one feels "real"--I'm overheated constantly, peeing
>every second, and feeling queasy in the afternoons, and I got much darker
>second lines for this one, with the final one (I took four tests--seeing
>that second line is very addicting!) being almost as dark as the control.
>
>So for now, hooray! Even if this pregnancy doesn't go to term, I *can* get
>pregnant, and that's a super success for me.
>
>I'll post more about my current looking-for-a-natural-birth-experience
>problem in another post, but meanwhile good to see everyone and I look
>forward to being around for a while.


Hi Joanna, welcome back and congratulations!!!!!! It's great to see you
around here again!

laurie
mommy to Jessica, 29 months
and Christopher, 4 months

*This email address is now valid*
>Joanna
>Meriwether, 6
>Honour, 4
>EDD 6/4/04
>
>

[She's A Goddess]

"Joanna Kimball" <thenospacekimballsatintergatedotcom> wrote in message
news:3f4fc590_4@newsfeed...

> I'll post more about my current looking-for-a-natural-birth-experience
> problem in another post, but meanwhile good to see everyone and I look
> forward to being around for a while.
>
> Joanna
> Meriwether, 6
> Honour, 4
> EDD 6/4/04
>

Congratulations Joanna! I was wondering about you the other day when Sophie
posted her herbs question. So glad to see you back around these parts and
sticky vibes for the little one.

And BTW, June due dates already? Where is the time going? Ack!

--
Rhiannon
Madison Sophia - 9/6/01
Owen Grady - 6/23/03 (due 6/12/03)

[Sophie]

Yay! Welcome back and congrats!

We'll be TTC #4 soon so I just came back to MKP too.

Good to *see* you again.

[Joanna Kimball]

Thanks, all--so good to see so many familiar faces (or at least familiar
screen names!). Goodness, I'm gone and Andrea has #11 (and WHAT a birth
story, girl, good grief), Sophie starts thinking about #4 (I feel like Lewis
was born about six weeks ago), my whole m.k.p. world is rocking!

Hopefully I'll be around for a good long time and can catch up with
everyone,

--
Joanna
Meriwether, 6
Honour, 4
EDD 5/4/04

[Sue]

Welcom back Joanna, I remember you. And congrats.
--
Sue
mom to three girls

Joanna Kimball <thenospacekimballsatintergatedotcom> wrote in message
news:3f4fc590_4@newsfeed...
> Hello again to oldies like me and hello also to those I don't know yet.
>
> My name is Joanna Kimball and I've been on and off this group for, geez,
> seven years or so. Since BCFOAI (before Candy found out about Isabel, for
> those few that remember that story!).
>
> I have two girls, six and four, but had left the group a couple of years
ago
> because I was going through secondary infertility (PCOS) and couldn't deal
> with all the pregnancy posts.
>
> To make a long story short, I've spent the last couple of years getting
> myself as healthy as I can--we didn't want to do traditional fertility
meds,
> so I've been seeing a homeopath, taking herbs, and going on a very strict,
> very healthy diet to address my PCOS. I lost 40 lbs, began ovulating
> regularly, and (you can guess what comes next)...am now back for REAL!
>
> It's still early, early days (I'm three days late, but have been testing
> postive since 12 dpo) so I am trying not to get overconfident (especially
as
> I have had rather an epidemic of very faint positives that never made it
> past 14 dpo), but this one feels "real"--I'm overheated constantly, peeing
> every second, and feeling queasy in the afternoons, and I got much darker
> second lines for this one, with the final one (I took four tests--seeing
> that second line is very addicting!) being almost as dark as the control.
>
> So for now, hooray! Even if this pregnancy doesn't go to term, I *can* get
> pregnant, and that's a super success for me.
>
> I'll post more about my current looking-for-a-natural-birth-experience
> problem in another post, but meanwhile good to see everyone and I look
> forward to being around for a while.
>
> Joanna
> Meriwether, 6
> Honour, 4
> EDD 6/4/04
>
>

[H Schinske]

>My name is Joanna Kimball and I've been on and off this group for, geez,
>seven years or so. Since BCFOAI (before Candy found out about Isabel, for
>those few that remember that story!).

I do! I do! Hi, Joanna, good to see you again.

--Helen

[Tatjana Farkin]

Wow, welcome back, Joanna!

I've wondered many time how you were doing, and I was this >< close to
emailing you a couple of times - but I was thinking that you might need
some time away from your online world.

I'm so, so glad to read that you're pregnant! You've helped me a lot in
the past! Congrats, it's just wonderful!

I'm still around, still TTC, fully ovulatory for over a year now thanks
to Metformin - but still not pg ... We're dealing with some minor male
factor (or rather, very unstable male factor), too, and I'm due to have
tube patency checked next week.

--
Tatjana (who thinks she should really write a real update one day)
PCOS - TTC #1 for 2.3 years

[Daye]

On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 17:28:39 -0400, "Joanna Kimball"
<thenospacekimballsatintergatedotcom> wrote:

>So for now, hooray! Even if this pregnancy doesn't go to term, I *can* get
>pregnant, and that's a super success for me.

Congrats, Joanna! I think I remember you from when I was posting with
#1. I am glad that you had a success, and congrats on your weight
loss too!

--
Daye
Momma to Jayan
"Boy" EDD 11 Jan 2004

[Taniwha grrrl]

"Joanna Kimball" <thenospacekimballsatintergatedotcom> wrote
in message

Goodness, I'm gone and Andrea has #11 (and WHAT a birth
> story, girl, good grief

Well you know things were getting a little boring, normal
birth after normal birth, thought I'd spice it up a bit for
excitement ;o)



--
Andrea

If I can't be a good example, then I'll just have to be a
horrible warning.

[Joanna Kimball]

"Tatjana Farkin" > wrote in message
...
> Wow, welcome back, Joanna!
>
> I've wondered many time how you were doing, and I was this >< close to
> emailing you a couple of times - but I was thinking that you might need
> some time away from your online world.

How funny--I've almost done the same thing to you!

> I'm so, so glad to read that you're pregnant! You've helped me a lot in
> the past! Congrats, it's just wonderful!
>
> I'm still around, still TTC, fully ovulatory for over a year now thanks
> to Metformin - but still not pg ... We're dealing with some minor male
> factor (or rather, very unstable male factor), too, and I'm due to have
> tube patency checked next week.

Hooray for ovulation! And glad that the met worked for you--it was a rather
spectacular failure for me. After six months on it my cycles, which had been
long but ovulatory (like 50 days, ovulation day 35+), were sporadic (between
20 and 90 days) and anovulatory. It wasn't until I had been off the met a
good year that I began getting the long and ovulatory cycles again, and from
there diet and homeopathy started to really regulate things. This successful
cycle I ovulated on day 19 or 20, and had been doing so for 4-5 cycles. My
good friend with PCOS insists that I don't actually have it--I have the
LH/FSH imbalance, I have the insulin issues, but met was absolutely hideous
for me and I never had the classic PCOS "picture" of weight gain after
menarche, etc. etc. Well, whatever I have, I'm glad it's under control and
hopefully we'll be able to have the large family we want.

Please DO write an update--how's the diet going?

--
Joanna
Meriwether, 6
Honour, 4
EDD 5/4/04

[Mary]

Joanna Kimball wrote:

> So for now, hooray! Even if this pregnancy doesn't go to term, I *can* get
> pregnant, and that's a super success for me.
>
> I'll post more about my current looking-for-a-natural-birth-experience
> problem in another post, but meanwhile good to see everyone and I look
> forward to being around for a while.
>
> Joanna
> Meriwether, 6
> Honour, 4
> EDD 6/4/04

Joanna, I remember you! Welcome back, congratulations, and lots of
sticky-baby vibes. :)

Mary S.
mom to the Sproutkin, 17 months

[Linz]

"Joanna Kimball" <thenospacekimballsatintergatedotcom> wrote in message
news:3f4fc590_4@newsfeed...
> Hello again to oldies like me and hello also to those I don't know
> yet.
>
> My name is Joanna Kimball and I've been on and off this group for,
> geez, seven years or so. Since BCFOAI (before Candy found out about
> Isabel, for those few that remember that story!).

I remember that, and I remember you!
Good luck with the pregnancy.

[Tatjana Farkin]

"Joanna Kimball" <thenospacekimballsatintergatedotcom> schrieb im
Newsbeitrag news:3f5144b1_2@newsfeed...
>
> "Tatjana Farkin" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Wow, welcome back, Joanna!
> >
> > I've wondered many time how you were doing, and I was this >< close
to
> > emailing you a couple of times - but I was thinking that you might
need
> > some time away from your online world.
>
> How funny--I've almost done the same thing to you!

Oh, that's too funny - you should have emailed me :-) I learnt a lot
from you re herbs, and I think of you whenever I answer a herb-related
question on my German PCOS list!

> Hooray for ovulation!

And how! I remember the total frustration during the anovulatory cylces,
thinking "if I O'ed, at least I'd have a *chance* at getting pg". It was
simply amazing to watch how my cycles did a complete turn-around when I
started low-carbing (within 10 days of Atkins induction I had a bleed,
followed by a 19-day anovulatory cycle, followed by the first
ovulation)! I wish somebody had told me this when all my problems
started at age 11 ...

I started taking Met 9 days before the first ovulation (finally, finally
getting it from my GP after everyone else refused), more or less stopped
(strict) lc'ing, increased Metformin and ovulated 3 times in a row
(cd28, cd25, cd19), then had an anovulatory cycle which I ended by
taking a pill cycle. At the same time, I met someone online who had had
problems with Metformin becoming ineffective rather quickly, and she had
put herself on a protocol of changing dosages. I tried that, too, and
it's been working like magic for over a year now! I take 2.550mg before
ovulation and reduce to 850-1.700mg during the luteal phase. That way,
my body is kickstarted or something at the beginning of every cycle.
I've never read anything official about this protocol - but hey, it
works! :-)

I also tried basically every herb or homeopathic remedy I could think
of, most of them didn't help at all. But now I've found a combination
that seems to work in addition to the new Met protocol - I don't know
whether all of the drugs are necessary, but I'm wary of changing a
working combination. So I take Met, 40mg of vitex, a homeopathic
compound remedy for hormone problems and baby aspirin.

From August '02 to July '03 I was also on thyroid hormone because TSH
was a tad high-ish and I thought it could be yet another culprit for the
long cycles I had. But I started to feel over-dosed in July and stopped
it cold turkey - haven't noticed any differences since.

Earlier this year, I had one slightly longish cycle (well, no ovulation
by cd 25 after O'ing cd17-19 for several months), kickstarted my system
by doing another round of Atkins induction, and O'ed 10 days later.
Psyched by this success and the desire to lose weight again (see further
down), I stopped Metformin and did "just Atkins". And had a 2-month an
ovulatory cycle which scared me into looking for yet another new gyn to
discuss IF treatment because I didn't see a way out any more :-(
I stopped the anovulatory cycle with a bc pill cycle (works like magic
for me!), and O'ed cd12 directly afterwards. The following ovulation was
cd15, and I'm guessing that I'll be 'round the familiar cd18/19 this
cycle. But I'm dealing with quite a lot of anxiety and the occasional
panic attack while waiting to O - hence the attempt at getting something
for ovulation induction.
When that failed, I had quite a major breakdown - I guess most days I
don't even realise myself how long I've been at it and how much of a
strain it puts on me and also my husband. We haven't had a single
married day w/o worrying whether we'll ever have a family. And we're
planning a big change (career change/setting up a business and moving
countries) which is on hold for as long as I don't conceive. Adoption
isn't an option in our current situation (not out of choice - I'd *love*
to adopt, but it's bureaucracy), so I often feel quite stuck.

> Please DO write an update--how's the diet going?

Well, that's *my* spectacular failure! I lost around 35lbs last year and
re-gained it all (and I'm worried even more, I'm avoiding the scales at
the moment). I'm one of those freaks (I've heard of a few other ones)
who *gain* on Metformin ... The only way for me to lose weight is to go
on the strictest possible LC diet (i.e. Atkins induction) and not take
Metformin - but then I'm totally infertile, so that's simply not an
option at the moment.

Apart from the TTC tsores, I'm keeping quite busy with a PCOS email list
I started 18 months ago - there wasn't any kind of PCOS support in
German, so this is the first (and still the only) possibility to get
German-language information. We have a few Swiss and Austrian members,
too, though I think their situation is slightly better with more
well-educated professionals. It gives me a lot of satisfaction that I
can help other women avoid some of the problems I've had :-)
A couple of weeks ago, a few fellow members and I started getting
organised to set up a national PCOS advocacy group, and it's a lot of
work, but we're making progress! I'm very excited about this!

Anyway, that's my life at the moment ... I've done and gone through
things I wouldn't have thought imaginable two years ago, and I found out
I have more patience than I ever thought I had ;-) I wouldn't want to do
away with the experience, I have learnt a lot and met some amazing
women. I just hope I'll get my reward in the end ...

--
Tatjana
PCOS - TTC #1 for 2 years

[Ericka Kammerer]

Taniwha grrrl wrote:


> Well you know things were getting a little boring, normal
> birth after normal birth, thought I'd spice it up a bit for
> excitement ;o)


And you never do anything by half measures, eh? ;-)

Take care,
Ericka

[Laurie]

Tatjana Farkin wrote in message ...
>
>Anyway, that's my life at the moment ... I've done and gone through
>things I wouldn't have thought imaginable two years ago, and I found out
>I have more patience than I ever thought I had ;-) I wouldn't want to do
>away with the experience, I have learnt a lot and met some amazing
>women. I just hope I'll get my reward in the end ...
>
>--
>Tatjana
>PCOS - TTC #1 for 2 years

You will, Tatjana. Your patience is amazing.

laurie
mommy to Jessica, 29 months
and Christopher, 4 months

*This email address is now valid*


>
>

[Em]

"Joanna Kimball" <thenospacekimballsatintergatedotcom> wrote in message
> Hello again to oldies like me and hello also to those I don't know yet.
>
> My name is Joanna Kimball and I've been on and off this group for, geez,
> seven years or so. Since BCFOAI (before Candy found out about Isabel, for
> those few that remember that story!).

Welcome back, Joanna! I remember you from my lurking days, mostly because of
your girls' lovely names. I was only here before Candy was pregnant with
Sophie though, but I know the Isabel story from googling :-)

<snip>
> So for now, hooray! Even if this pregnancy doesn't go to term, I *can* get
> pregnant, and that's a super success for me.

Congratulations!! I hope everything goes wonderfully for you with this
pregnancy :-)

--
Em
edd 9/23/03
(37 weeks today!)

[Circe]

"Joanna Kimball" <thenospacekimballsatintergatedotcom> wrote in message
news:3f4fc590_4@newsfeed...
> My name is Joanna Kimball and I've been on and off this group for, geez,
> seven years or so. Since BCFOAI (before Candy found out about Isabel, for
> those few that remember that story!).
>
> I have two girls, six and four, but had left the group a couple of years
ago
> because I was going through secondary infertility (PCOS) and couldn't deal
> with all the pregnancy posts.
>
Hi Joanna! Of course, I remember you. And congratulations!
--
Be well, Barbara
(Julian [6], Aurora [4], and Vernon's [17mo] mom)
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