Dr. K's advice...

Yeah, so I should've just paid my mom the $30 co-pay. I wasn't told anything I didn't already know. Here's what his advice boiled down to....

1. Try to lose between 20-30 lbs: In hopes this will regulate my cycles. My mom's been telling me this for months...and I KNOW I just need to do it, but I just didn't want to add more stress to a stressful situation. (for the record, I just had to fix a typo above...I typed "pregulate"....nice!)

2. Keep taking the 2000mg of Metformin. "No shit Sherlock!"

3. Have sex. REALLY?!?!

The plan is to go back for a follow-up in 6 months. SIX MONTHS???? Uhhh, no! He said he just picked 6 months, but it can be earlier if...I mean WHEN, I decide the dieting/Metformin isn't doing the trick. I'm going to diet and hopefully that will regulate my cycles and I will get KU on my own before we have to do other IF things. He did mention Clomid and said that would be the next step. He also gave me a script for Prometrium. If I don't get a period within 10 weeks from Sept 4, I need to fill it to bring one on. Oh, one last thing. He said that me getting my period both times after starting/changing my dosage of Metformin was coincidental. Thanks Doc! You could've just stretched the truth to make me feel better.

Ugh...I'm feeling a bit crappy...can you tell?

Houston, we have Ovulation!

Woot Woot! My temp was still up this morning, so I guess only time will tell if it stays up. I have a Dr. appt on Tuesday morning, hopefully he'll send me for bloodwork to check my progesterone levels so we can confirm ovulation.

Well hello there temp spike!

I wasn't expecting to see one so soon, but I'll take it! Hopefully my temps will stay up and I will get some solid crosshairs in a few days. I'm just thinking 13 days might be a little early. I guess I'll just have to wait and see. I told Chris about it and he said "ok, what does that mean?" I told him it means I probably O'd yesterday. His response was, "Did we 'do it' yesterday?" Nope, we didn't, but we did the day before. Then he gave me a hug.....it was cute. :o)

Busy blogging day

I was just looking up some more info on PCOS and TTC. I came across this song. Bring on the waterworks. Infertility SUCKS!!

Makeover time!

No, not for me - although I could really use one. I felt like the old background of the blog was too muted/drab. So I thought I'd lighten it up a little. I think it's a bit better now. But I'm sure I'll think it's "too much" in a few weeks/days.

You are always on my mind

So here it goes again. I had taken a break from the temping and thinking about TTC, but now that I've had a pretty normal period, my mind is being flooded with all the "what if's" and "I hope's" I really can't stop thinking about when I'm going to be able to stop doing all this IF related crap, but more importantly when our miracle finally is going to happen.

I went 3-1/2 months without a period and then it came after doubling my Metformin dosage. It only lasted 9 days, including the really light 1st day and the spotting on the last day. That's awesome to me, because usually when I go that long with out one, it's at least 14 days long...and super heavy. I've been temping every morning and despite a few big dips, it looks fairly consistance with the temps I've had in my other cycles.

As I'm sitting here typing, I'm feeling some faint twinges on both sides, where my ovaries are. I'm going to keep my fingers crossed that it's some healthy follies getting ready for ovulation.

Come on girls, you can do it!!!!

Starting up again

It's been a few weeks since I posted last, so I thought it was time for a little update. Last time I posted, I had just gone for my 3 month follow up bloodwork to see if the 1000/mg daily of Metformin was doing anything to help out my insulin resistance. I wish a had the " easy" button from staples so I could say, "That was easy!", but no such luck. My insulin and testosterone levels are still higher than normal. They looked like they went down a teensy, but not enough of an improvement to make me O every month.

In May when I was first put on Met, I started AF 11 days after starting it-I hadn't seen her since Jan 11th. So here it is May 21 and I am sooooo excited! The Met might actually be working! I started temping every morning and lo and behold, I had a solid cross-hatch show up on fertility friend indicating that I O'd around CD 18. I awaited AF and on the day FF said she'd arrive, I spotted, for 4 days.. ..then nothing. A few weeks later a little more spotting, but that's been it.

My OB told me to double my dose of Met....which I started on Aug 29th at night. I woke up yesterday morning (7 days later) to some spotting and thought "hmmmm, could it be?!" I'm happy to report that AF has definately decided to visit again. Yipppeee! Part of me still wonders if it's just coincidental, but both times? Seems kind of unlikely. I started to temp again this morning, so we'll see. I have an appointment with an OB in the same office that specializes in PCOS/IF stuff, in the middle of this month, so hopefully he'll be able to give me some more advice...or maybe I'll be pregnant! That would be awesome!