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wife2james
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Update.
wife2james
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First of all, I appreciate everyone's responses to my other post. I am not pregnant. I did find out why I've been irregular my whole life and it also answered my suspicions that I've always had. I tend to skip ovulation. That's obviously going to cause some problems when we actually start trying in another year or so. The Dr said that I can get on Clomid to help with that. She ordered some blood work to see if I have any thyroid problems that's causing me to skip ovulation, if that's the case, then it's easlily fixable. If not, then I'll deal with when the time comes.
What she wants me to start doing is map out my periods and if I want to get scientific I'm going to start taking my basal body temp and chart. I haven't decided which I'm going to do yet but I think I'll just map it for awhile, and then I'll start charting.
My feelings in all of this is not dissappointment, it's relief. I'm relived because I know what is going on with me. I understand how painful infertility is, but at least I know what's going on so I can figure out how to deal with it and decide what my options are.
Siggy coming soon....
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I know you must be frustrated by this, but I'm glad you got some answers. Charting is easy once you get in the habit. Fertility friend.com draws it for you, all you do is plug in your temp or other info.
It's empowering when you can see what is going on with your body. It will help you verify when you do or don't ovulate. Good luck to you!
I know it can be frustrating, but knowledge is power. It's won't hurt to chart and know what you are having your cycles.
My senior year in college my period stopped all together and I had to go through a series of tests and ended up at a fertility specialist at UAB. Turns out I wasn't ovulating regularly either. At the time I was no where near wanting to start a family so they put me on a birth control that had a higher dose of estrogen (which apparently I had an estrogen deficiency.) I stayed on it for a few years. I had been told that I'd probably have to be put on fertility drugs once I wanted to TTC, but when that time rolled around, my body had somehow self regulated itself and we were able to TTC on our own.
Good luck with everything! We'll be here if you ever need to vent.
natural m/c and d&c at 10 weeks - 1/24/2014
DX w/ hetero C677t and A1298C MTHFR - 3/4/2014
I know exactly what you are going through. In the 11 months that we were TTC, I ovulated one time which happened to be the month I got my BFP. There was no explanation for my lack of ovulation, and there is still no explanation for why I ovulated out of nowhere.
There was even a cycle that lasted 76 days before I had 1/2 a day of red spotting (that was my period). Your doc may want to try progesterone to force your body to flush. My doc tried that with me because often it can restart your body to get back on track.
Good luck to you, and I hope that you get some answers charting. That helped me to understand my cycle.
I'm glad to read that there is still hope even though the idea of not being able to have kids has popped in my head. I was just talking to one of my best friends about it and she was telling me that she had the same problem, and she has 2 kids. I know that whatever happens with me, God is in control!
Thanks everyone for the kind words and I will check out fertilityfriend.com.
I'm glad that you're not disappointed, however I know it must be frustrating. Well at least now you can get into a plan of action for TTC in the future.
Also, like PP's have stated, charting isn't all that hard, fertility friend was a really good resource for me when I was semi-charting.
ditto this. i highly recommend charting. i did it for 5+ yrs, and it was like 2nd nature to me. taking your temp every morning is a peace of cake. good luck!
This!
Definitely educate yourself on your body. Pick up a copy of Taking Charge of Your Fertility or read up on www.fertilityfriend.com. Track your cycles for a few months and you might just find you don't have "Normal" periods, just irregular.
FWIW - I have NEVER had regular cycles. My cycles are usually about 6-7 weeks long - always. I ovulate regularly - just not every 4 weeks. The only time I had an annovulatory cycle is right after my miscarriage.
And I am very fertile. I have officially tried to get pregnant - three times - (with charting and timed intercourse) and I have gotten pregnant - THREE times.
I think a lot of people are quick to jump on the infertilty band wagon - if they don't have the text book cycles or don't get pregnant RIGHT AWAY, but the truth is that it does take time. and jumping to conclusions like that without REALLY knowing what is going on, might really upset some of the women here who are really truly experiencing infertility issues.
Ditto Sarah. Picking up TCOYF would be a great first step for you. Also, know that it isn't as simple as taking thyroid meds (they are very hard to get just the right dose... although once you do find it, it's just a simple pill a day from then on). I also caution that whenever you are ready to TTC and if you should need help ovulating (a la Clomid/Femara) you will need to be monitored by an RE to ensure that the clomid doesn't thin your lining and/or cause you to have too many follicles that could release multiple eggs (a la Jon & Kate). It's irresponsible to take Clomid without bloodwork and ultrasound monitoring... which can add up and is more than likely not covered by insurance unfortunately. Hope it doesn't come to that and glad to hear you got some answers!