curiosa

I thought I'd have a go at a journal too. Hoping it won't end up being long! (fingers crossed!)

My background - tyring not to bore you too much!:
Hubby and I got married in May 2007, I am 27 and he is 29. It's kind of funny because I have always had this great urge to have kids (since I was a kid myself really), but after we got married I started thinking I wanted to enjoy married life for a bit before starting to TTC. Instead, my husband who had previously wanted to wait a bit, suddenly got this urge to be a daddy as soon as we got married! So we kind of compromised and I said I wanted to wait a year and go on several holidays just the two of us... so we went on this mad holiday-spree and we're still waiting to go to Japan in October (half my family is from Japan).
Back in January 2008 I went to my GP and said we were thinking about TTC soon, he prescribed folic acid. And at the end of Feb 2008, I stopped taking BCP (I'd been taking BCP non-stop for almost 10 years: first Dianette, then Microgynon and finally Marvelon)
Before BCP I always had very long and irregular cycles. I never had a cycle less than 2 months long, and sometimes it was more like 3 months long. It did worry me back then but didn't know what to do about it or who to talk to, so didn't give it much thought. I also had very long and heavy AF (7-8 days and every heavy for 4 days or so).

Since stopping BCP in Feb, I have been monitoring Temperature and CM, and also had a go at OPK.
I have had only two cycles:
Cycle #1: 63 days, OV'd on CD 54, LP of 9 days only
Cycle #2: 66 days, no ovulation detected (no real temp rise and OPKs all negative)

I'm now on Cycle#3 of my TTC Journey!

sjnams

Welcome to the journals curiosa!

Looking forward to following your journey, hope the doc was helpful!!

curiosa

TTC Cycle: #3
CD: 8

Ok, so after two painfully long cycles, I decided to see my GP again. The appointment was this morning. I was prepared to battle it out and make sure I got at least a blood test done to check my hormones....
truth is, I didn't even have to!
I saw this GP I'd never seen before (cause I couldn't remember the name of the last GP I saw, who was very nice). And this young lady was REALLY nice. Actually looked like she'd practiced her "very-concerned-GP" look a bit too much . Anyway I explained everything to her and she was VERY understanding.

This is what we're going to do:

1. Tomorrow I will do a fasting blood test to check hormone levels and anything else there is to check
2. She has booked me for an ultrasound scan to check whether there is a possibility I have PCOS or other problems with my ovaries

What do you girls think? Success or what!?
I am very happy because she took me seriously!
Even more, she actually said: "I'm sorry I cannot refer you to have more in-depth fertility tests done now because we have to wait at least 12 month. Do you have a problem with this?"
wow very impressed she'd make sure I was ok with everything she'd said. (I haven't had very good experiences with GPs so far, so very happy)

curiosa

Thanks for coming to my journal, sjnams!

yaya

Welcome to the journals hun! Glad to hear that yr appointment with yr GP went so well. Keep us posted as to the test/scan results.



Yaya xx

curiosa

Thanks for the welcome!
I'll keep you posted!

sjnams

Sounds like you have a good GP clinic down there! Thats good that they are taking you seriously, I hope I get a similar response when I go to see my GP!!

Monkeh

Sounds like a lovely GP indeed!

Good luck on your journey. Hope your bloods and scan come back ok!

curiosa

Thanks girls! I think with all the bad luck I've had with GP's in the past, I was bound to find a good surgery this time. yay!

curiosa

CD8
Temp : 36.1
CM : amazingly enough: EWCM !!
Mood:

Yes, strangely enough I have had a very short AF (only 4 days, 2 days of which were very light) and immediately after... or actually, even WHILE I had AF I could see blood mixed with EWCM (sorry, TMI!!) . I have had more EWCM (and clearer) that I have ever had in previous cycles, and today - sorry this is TMI, i know - CM stretched to over 30cm, yes THIRTY CENTIMETRES! What the hell!?
((in previous cycles when I had EWCM it wasn't always completely clear, sometimes it was streaked with yellowish or white-ish mucous, but this was really perfect looking!))

But I'm only on CD 8 and my cycles have been UBER-long! and in the previous 2 cycles I never had EWCM so early on. I usually had 2 bouts of fertile CM, one at about CD30/40day, and one around CD50/55day.
Also, I have been having SORE nipple. And I mean SORE, they are constantly hard and even without touching them I feel this eeeek feeling, like when you feel metal on your teeth and it really bothers me. If I touch them they hurt. I have had dermatitis on my nipples before, but it doesn't feel anything like dermatitis. I don't understand.
What's going on!?

I did OPK, just to make sure, but they've been negative.
I also seduced hubby and we last night, cause you never know, right?