Ilse Witch
June 14th 04, 08:32 PM
Sorry for the identical post, I just have no time whatsoever...
Due to a significant lack of time and still only 24 hours in a day in
spite of a request to increase this, I've not been around here as often as
I would like.
The short story: I'm sorta OK and we've started fertility testing. The
doctor was nice, and we're in for hormonal imbalance (low progesterone).
The long story: I'm still very tired since the last m/c and it's not quite
clear why. It could be an asymptomatic UTI, which I've had before. Last
time I felt like this was several years back, when I was adviced to
supplement zinc. Since that worked, I stocked up on zinc yesterday. Later
this week I should get the results from a urine culture on the UTI.
In the mean time, we saw a fertility specialist last week, and she was
great. First off, she also a choir singer. Second, she has had Graves'
disease, and took my word that I can feel it coming before the bloodwork
shows it. A first for me! The only negative point was that she fired a lot
of medical terminology at us, and I was glad to have read up on it. DH
however, was totally stunnend and had no clue what she was talking about.
Yes, I've told him several times there are such things as libraries and
internet, where he could find additional info. But if I don't drag it in
for him, put him on the couch and hand him the book, he'll not read it.
The specialist confirmed my suspicions that the m/c's could be related to
a hormonal imbalance, specifically a low progesterone production during my
cycle. I will ask her next time how such things arise, and why I never had
any symptoms before my first pregnancy. In the mean time, they started
bloodwork for a bunch of auto-immune disorders. As soon as my next full
cycle starts, we will do a complete tracing of hormonal values during the
cycle to see if it all works OK. That implies a lot of blood draws, a
bunch of ultrasounds and an endometrial biopsy.
We told her we'd "donate" two cycles to investigations, and if nothing is
found, we'd go back to normal and TTC again. She recommended that even in
that case, I'd take some progesterone supplements, which I was very glad
to hear. She also suggested hCG shots to boost ovulation, but I'm not sure
I would do that too, have to think about that option.
--
-- I
mommy to DS (July '02)
mommy to three tiny angels (28 Oct'03, 17 Feb'04 & 20 May'04)
guardian of DH (33)
Due to a significant lack of time and still only 24 hours in a day in
spite of a request to increase this, I've not been around here as often as
I would like.
The short story: I'm sorta OK and we've started fertility testing. The
doctor was nice, and we're in for hormonal imbalance (low progesterone).
The long story: I'm still very tired since the last m/c and it's not quite
clear why. It could be an asymptomatic UTI, which I've had before. Last
time I felt like this was several years back, when I was adviced to
supplement zinc. Since that worked, I stocked up on zinc yesterday. Later
this week I should get the results from a urine culture on the UTI.
In the mean time, we saw a fertility specialist last week, and she was
great. First off, she also a choir singer. Second, she has had Graves'
disease, and took my word that I can feel it coming before the bloodwork
shows it. A first for me! The only negative point was that she fired a lot
of medical terminology at us, and I was glad to have read up on it. DH
however, was totally stunnend and had no clue what she was talking about.
Yes, I've told him several times there are such things as libraries and
internet, where he could find additional info. But if I don't drag it in
for him, put him on the couch and hand him the book, he'll not read it.
The specialist confirmed my suspicions that the m/c's could be related to
a hormonal imbalance, specifically a low progesterone production during my
cycle. I will ask her next time how such things arise, and why I never had
any symptoms before my first pregnancy. In the mean time, they started
bloodwork for a bunch of auto-immune disorders. As soon as my next full
cycle starts, we will do a complete tracing of hormonal values during the
cycle to see if it all works OK. That implies a lot of blood draws, a
bunch of ultrasounds and an endometrial biopsy.
We told her we'd "donate" two cycles to investigations, and if nothing is
found, we'd go back to normal and TTC again. She recommended that even in
that case, I'd take some progesterone supplements, which I was very glad
to hear. She also suggested hCG shots to boost ovulation, but I'm not sure
I would do that too, have to think about that option.
--
-- I
mommy to DS (July '02)
mommy to three tiny angels (28 Oct'03, 17 Feb'04 & 20 May'04)
guardian of DH (33)