ECHO, ECho, echo...
Heeellllooooooo, looooo, loooo. Anybody oouuutt theeerrrree, ouut theeerre, out theere?
Yeesh!
I've been racking my brain to come up with something Brilliant, Enlightening, Snarky, etc., that might inspire a little more action that what I've been seeing from you out there, but sorry, I got nuttin'.
Well, I got this little update which is no more than a blip on the screen... Remember in my last post how I said my hormones seem to be on hiatus? Within an hour of me posting that I was getting some cramping and that reminded me that I had forgotten to take my pill the night before. Since I couldn't get away from work, I figured I may end up with some breakthroughbleeding (btb) before the end of the day, no biggie. But that's not what happened. It was during a bathroom break that I realized that my btb was like the beginning of a full-on period and the cramping had gotten significantly worse. I called my RE's office and I was advised by Dr. M.'s nurse that based on my description of the symptoms I was experiencing I should take a HPT to rule out pregnancy, then take 2 pills that night and 2 more the next night.
I didn't take the HPT. I did take the pills as instructed and last night I had a beaut of a migraine coming on which I'm associating with the honking of the hormones. The bleeding has stopped, but I'm surprised with how much "old blood" I am still seeing when I go to the bathroom. Weird, huh?
On a related note my PIO script showed up and so did something else via USPS but I wasn't here to sign for it so I'll have to trek to the Post Office (a.ka. HELL) tomorrow to pick it up. BTW, it was just yesterday that I had an *aha* moment and figured out what the acronym PIO meant while reading another blog. For any newbies out there, PIO = Progesterone in Oil, an injectible version of progesterone - a step up from the progesterone suppositories, which I will sorely miss - HA!
So things are gearing up for our IVF cycle. My subsequent posts should become a little more intersting as I start my injectible schedule and the visits to the RE pick up in frequency. Heck! I might even finally come up with a catchy nick-name for her (so what if it's already been 5 months?). Then again, they may not as one cannot truly apreciate my bitter sarcasm without the contorted facial expressions and crazy, jerky body/arm movements that are my trademarks.
posted by DD @ 11/25/2005 03:16:00 PM
3 Socked it to me!
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I am very glad to read another SIF blog. My first pregnancy was rather uneventful as well, but no others have been forthcoming for me. Still, almost as if I'm being punished, I have guilt now about the first one being relatively easy, even if it took years of endo treatment to get there.
I am so sorry about your loss of a year ago. Your posts about it were so touching.
Why didn't you take the HPT? Any excuse to pee on a stick is good by me. Hoping that the hormones smooth out, that headache sounds like no fun.
Ugh--hormonal migraines are the worst. I hope your IVF cycle goes swimmingly. And you amaze me--given even the tiniest, most tenuous reason to pee on a stick, I will do it. I am a glutton for punishment. Good luck with the PIO shots. Oh, and some one (I can't remember who--maybe reprogirl?) refers to PIO as PIA: Progesterone In Ass. Ha!
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