On Friday, I finished my 10 mg progesterone pills and had my endometrial biopsy. I felt the day before I started the pills that my own progesterone had started kicking in because the bleeding and symptoms I had been having for two months had started to subside. I took the pills for 10 days but on day 9 I felt strange an crampy and I started spotting. Perhaps a sign that my own progesterone had dropped which in normal circumstances begins the onset of CD 1. So on day 9 slight spotting and on day 10 consistent spotting. Day 11 I went in for the biopsy day and my bleeding was light-moderate, just like a CD 1.
I'm not going to lie here, the biopsy was very painful. Much more than I expected. My GYN prescribed Adav*n (sp?) for anxiety. WW prescribed 2 Vic*din to go with it. I did take 1 Vic*din, but not two. I was afraid I would be so out of it, I might pee on myself or something. In hindsight, I should have taken both of them!! She's almost always right. Luckily for me my GYN is an excellent surgeon. WW calls him a tactical and strategic genius. As a practitioner we don't always trust him, but for surgery and procedures he's excellent. My appointment was an hour, for monitoring, etc. but he was in and out of there in less than 10 minutes. Four of those minutes were excruciating, but I can live with short and precise. I asked him to stop several times, but he just said it will be over in just a minute.
I had some bleeding that I could tell was not cycle bleeding for several hours after the biopsy. My uterus did hurt all that day. I took M*trin for inflammation and pain. Over the weekend the bleeding returned to the menstrual flow type. I have mild cramping, off and on, and have had some major mood swings in the last 72 hours, from giddy to mournful. My FSH is low and according to the test results and physical exam, I am far from menopause. I feel good about that, but I am not sure why. I guess in my mind it means I am still open for business, infertile, but open for business.
WW things all this hormonal fluctuation is from fertility treatment and fertility drugs. I know she feels resentment toward the universe (?) because we have nothing to show for all of the attempts except debt, sadness, and now medical problems. Well, that sentence was certainly a downer. We aren't completely destitute, some days are better than others.
We don't talk about the "baby thing" much now. We are on waiting lists at several embryo donation facilities. Our RE has asked us if we want to do a shared cycle in July 08 with a really great ovum donor. We tentatively agreed because we have no clue how we are going to come up with the money. We already took out a second mortgage to pay for the donor cycle and FET. Sucks. It all seems very unreal now.
3 comments:
wow Daisy, thank you for being so honest about the biopsy - I'm looking forward to one at the end of this fake cycle. And rather than go into it relying on my nurse's "mild cramping" line, I would rather know what I'm up against.
I'm glad that you're still writing, even when things seem far from real.
I'm glad that's over for you, and I totally understand why you were glad that menopause is far away.
Keeping my fingers crossed for good results!
HI Daisy - I'm so sorry you went through that. And I feel absolutely terrible becuase I did have one and it was just as excruciating as yours, and I should have said something but didn't even think to do so - or maybe it was better that I didn't. No one told me before mine, and frankly I'm grateful I didn't know. Although I had one at the end of my mock cycle, and then another about 6 months after Eddie was born due to uterine problems. At least when I went to that appt I didn't know he was doing to do it and only had about 5 minutes of panic before he was done. For M, it is over REALLY quickly, and ativ*n is great for the anxiety before hand. And vicodin wouldn't have been a bad thing!!
I'm so sorry you feel the way you do, and I completely understand. I'm hoping that something promising and reasonably priced comes your way SOON. Thinking of you.
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