I have shared a little of my infertility journey with my work colleagues. To be honest it's hard to explain to people why you have days off for appointments and stuff, so I didn't hide it.
It's only recently though that I let my friends into the inner circle of ovulation days and the joys of temperature charting. Poor girls, they were baffled!
The girls are my age, between 26 and 32 (one is in her 40's and the only married mother). One is newly married, two are engaged and one is single.
All are on the pill. I just don't know how insulting it would be for me to warn them that it's sometimes not as easy as they think it will be to have children. Surely they must know this? My (perhaps tainted) view is that they are taking a gamble by not thinking yet about their fertility yet. I wanna scream out to them, to plead with them to make sure they are OK. I would hate for any of them to go through what I am.
Onto my charting, I'm having a bizarre time. November I OV'd on day 17 and it was confirmed by scan and on my BBT chart. December I didn't OV, lots if pain and I put weight on :( January I lost weight and I OV'd on day 17 yay. Then 31st Jan I started the nasty AF and it was horrific. Very heavy and crampy, but just didn't stop!! Went to my GP 6 weeks later and after a week of mefanemic acid tablets it stopped.
It's been 19 days now since it stopped, but on my BBT my temp hasn't changed. Range differs ever so slightly from 35.6-36.0 degrees. So I have no idea what phase of my cycle I am at, when my next AF will arrive, if it will arrive at all, because that has happened a few times too.
All this because of a slightly higher than normal testosterone reading. Really? There doesn't seem to be anyone out there with this reading like me, except women with pcos, which I definitely haven't got. This is why I am so confused by it all.
So the wait goes on, I can't wait to find out what the endocrinologist thinks about me!
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