Wednesday, November 13, 2013

30 Days Thankful {2013}

Every year during November Facebook becomes overwhelmingly grateful for things that they complain about the other eleven months.  There are three different types of people in this yearly takeover: the daily poster (never misses a day), the catch up (can never remember to do it so they post 8 days at once), and the radio silence (they don't post anything at all).  I'm the second one, so to save myself some time, and honestly, to make me the third type, I'm doing mine in one post right here, right now.

1.  Jesus
2. My husband (most of the time)
3. Lola
4. My family
5. My sorority
6. My home
7. My friends
8. My co-workers
9. My Church Family
10. Doctors and Nurses
11. Our veterans
12. Being born in this great nation
13. That I'm the one with the zombie apocalypse survival plan
14. Electricity
15. Sonic Unsweet Peach Tea
16.The ability to hear
17. My job
18. Having a boss who works with me since I've been having to take off so much lately.
19. Giant sun glasses...with polka dots
20. Cooler weather
21. Days that I get to stay on the couch in sweatpants
22. Puppy Snuggles
23. Black Friday savings
24. Atkins peanut butter cups
25. having reliable transportation
26. my health
27. Grey's Anatomy (don't judge me)
28. that my friends always have snacks, since we can never make it to lunch with starving
29. Kittens, puppies, and rainbows
30. Carbs

My HSG and follow up

I went in for my HSG procedure on 10/30/13.  The entire procedure took about 10 minutes, but about two hours of waiting.  The procedure, if you're unfamiliar with it, involves the physician inserting a catheter into the cervix and injecting dye into each of the fallopian tubes while having you turn from side to side as they take x-rays.  My uterus was the proper shape, the dye flowed properly, meaning everything was normal (except that the right side hurt like crazy!). 

When I went for my follow up I got the results of all my lab work, he did another ultrasound, gave me the results of my HSG, and let me know how we will proceed.  Everything came back good, except my FSH, which was high, and my egg reserve was on the low side.  He started me on metformin (I'm not a diabetic) at a pretty high dose, which so far has made me sick to my stomach all the time and I seem to only be hungry at lunch. He also restarted me on progesterone, but a different type. I take this medication for twelve days.  After that, I take a pregnancy test and if it is negative, I go back for labs on day 3 of my cycle (to see if the metformin and progesterone have helped my levels).  Then he wants to start me on a drug that is stronger than clomid since it didn't work the last six times. 

We will know more soon, but I have to admit, I'm really hoping that this month is our month.

Maybe?  Hopefully?