Thursday, October 10, 2013

Quick Thoughts On A Thursday

So I totally slacked on my "What To Eat Wednesday" post yesterday, mostly because we're still trying to recover from the past weekend and haven't been eating the best. Breakfast and lunch are pretty easy, but at the end of the day, dinners are the last thing we want to think about which means we don't always make the best choices. I unfortunately see this as a trend for October since we'll be out of town almost every weekend. Oh well, eating well two out of the three meals in a day is better than not at all, right?

I'm probably jinxing myself, but I haven't had any side effects from the Clomid (yet.) Mind you, tonight will only be my third dose, so they could still pop up, but I fully expected to have horrible night sweats and headaches moments after taking the first dose. Of course, now that I've said this, I'll be writing a post tomorrow about how I didn't sleep all night and woke up drenched in sweat.

Many of you have asked if I'm getting a mid cycle monitoring appointment, and after my last appointment with Dr. B, I fully expected to. However, when I emailed my nurse to set one up, she said that Dr. B does "monitoring" appointments 33-35 days after the onset of your period...which would put me approximately 5 days after the start of my next cycle. I nicely pointed that out and explained that when I last spoke to Dr. B, he wanted to do a mid cycle appointment to make sure I didn't pop out 10 babies nine months from now, but the nurse was very adamant about scheduling me for November 6. I didn't feel like fighting her about it; honestly I'm just trying to coast my way through these next few months of Clomid before getting referred to an RE who is hopefully more organized, but I will bring it up to Dr. B in November. If I do happen to get pregnant with Clomid, then I will be ecstatic, but I'm not getting my hopes up too high. We all know hope is a bitch.

This weekend, Keegan and I are driving down to the coast for Cruisin' the Coast. As Keegan's wedding present, I surprised him with a trip to Cruisin the Coast last year, and it's quickly become a tradition for us. We'll spend the weekend on the sandy beaches of the Mississippi/Alabama/Louisiana coast looking at vintage cars and eating tasty foods that are horrible for us. Maybe I'll have a post not centered about my lady bits next week and will post some pictures.

I doubt I'll post again until next week, so I hope everyone has a good weekend. If you have a few moments, make sure to send some good vibes into the universe for Stupid Stork. She has two fighting embryos from her last IVF cycle and are hoping they'll survive until the end of the week so they can be frozen. She wants to be that success story when everything looks bleak, and I want that for her too.

10 comments:

  1. Your doctor frustrates me. I can never understand the motivation. I had my mid-cycle monitoring today and it's a good thing, because my follicles aren't ready yet. And you're right—what if I had, like, eight mature follicles?! I certainly wouldn't want to try this cycle! Here's hoping it's moot and you get a BFP with just one in there :) Have fun on your mini-vacay!!

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    1. I'm glad that someone else is frustrated with my doctor as well, it makes me more confident in my frustrations and makes me feel less like a complainer. I think I could deal with twins, maaaaaaaaaybe triplets, but let's hope I don't become the next OctoMom!

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  2. Your Dr is weird...when I am taking letrozole or clomid I always had an ultrasound on CD 12 or 13 to see how many follicles were getting produced. It let's you know that the drugs work for you because sometimes for some people they don't!!! Its reassuring to know that there are two or three maturing follies. And if for some reason your follies go cray cray and you have 10 of them then the Dr can cancel the IUI or tell you to have protected sex and skip the cycle because the chance of multiples is too high. I personally would want to have the US at least the first two or so cycles to kinda know how your body is reacting to the drugs.

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    1. Believe me, I'd love to have an ultrasound to see what's going on in there, and it's something that I'm going to bring up at my next appointment for sure. Hopefully once we get referred to an RE, things will be more organized.

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  3. My OB/GYN didn't want to monitor my cycles on Clomid, and my RE doesn't care to when I start Femara. Hmmm. It is interesting how doctors have different protocols for the same drugs!

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    1. What confuses me the most is he was so adamant about telling me that if I have too many follicles, my cycle will be canceled, but now he doesn't want to monitor me at all? Doctors are so strange.

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  4. Ok, the doctor situation is just bizarre to me. I was under the impression that every clomid/femara cycle was heavily monitored to ensure that you didn't "pop out 10 babies". I -always- had mid cycle monitoring and often wasn't ready when I thought I was. I guess to each their own? Here's hoping it doesn't even matter for you and that BFP comes, monitored or not :)

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    1. I was under the same impression, that's why I was so confused as to why all of a sudden my nurse was like, "nope, no need to come in until November." Believe me, it'll be something I'll bring up at my next appointment. Thanks for the good wishes!

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  5. we had u/s too! boo Dr B.
    i hope you have a great time on the coast - sounds like so much fun!

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  6. Hope clomid works for you and you don't have the raging hormone bitch side effect that a lot us experienced. lol. I'll stop by STupid Stork. Thanks for sharing her news.

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