PCOS new pregnancy questions

willow28

Hi everyone. I'm new here and I have a couple of questions that seem really urgent to me right now.

Some background: I underwent two years of fertility treatments with my ex husband in 2011 and 2012. I was diagnosed with PCOS early in the process. I tried lots of treatments and none of them worked even a little bit. I was told that I probably wouldn't be able to get pregnant without specialist support and even then it would be unlikely. The specialist I was seeing in Texas didn't really know what else to try. 

Well, I am with someone new now and found out this weekend that I'm pregnant. We weren't trying, but we weren't trying not to get pregnant either. I mean, I couldn't get pregnant anyway, right? In the past I've had a problem with low progesterone levels and was told to take progesterone (oral) as soon as ovulation occurred. When I got the positive test result on Saturday I found my old prescription and decided to take the expired progesterone. I live in a smallish town and managed to get the main women's clinic here to do some bloodwork today to check my progesterone levels. They only agreed to do the blood work after I got pushy about it. They wanted to just put me off for another month before seeing me for a first appointment. I didn't take the progesterone pills this morning so I could minimize interference with the blood test and I told the nurse about the pills I took. She told me to stop taking the pills because "it could be a different chemical now." I was under the understanding that the pills were likely less potent now but wouldn't be harmful.

I won't have the results of my blood tests for 2-3 days. No one seems particularly interested in listening to me when I tell them that I was told I probably couldn't maintain a pregnancy without progesterone therapy. I'm worried about the 2-3 days without progesterone supplements. I've read that the risk of miscarriage is high. I am also concerned that I haven't had the chance to talk to a doctor. In fact, when I made my follow-up appointment they told me it won't be until the 20th and that I'll just be talking to a nurse who will take my history. I still won't be able to talk to a doctor until who knows when.

So, should I keep taking the progesterone anyway? Do I need to find a specialist (in another town) to see me about my pregnancy at this time? Should I just sit tight and wait for the results of the blood work? I'm feeling a little overwhelmed and no one at the women's clinic seems to care about my concerns at all. My options for providers in this town are very limited unfortunately.