Hello November 30th, This was a very important day to us. This was the beginning of that next chapter of our lives. Our appointment was at 8:30 am and they told us to arrive 15 minutes early due to the over amount of signing your life away paper work, and also that our appointment would last about two hours. Really what could they possibly talk to us about for two hours. They called us back into a conference room and sat us down at the table. The doctor came in with a large stack of papers and a folder and talked to us about EVERYTHING that had to do with the reproductive system all the way down to having sex and what the percentages would be of us trying to conceive as a normal couple (ones without fertility problems) or us non normal (the ones with infertility.) Time 1 hr into appointment. After our little meeting he wanted to do an ultrasound(US). So we went into the cute little home style room and instantly my husband was laughing because they had Christmas socks on the stirrups (really this is what he has gotten from the appointment so far). I changed into a gown and up on the bed i went. The doctor game back into the room and said OK Mrs. Tucker i am going to preform and US(ultra sound). All of a sudden he pulled out this wand looking thing with a condom on it. Dildo cam ( a view from inside) as i call and away he began with the testing. While he is moving this uncomfortable Harry Potter wand around inside me he (the doctor) begins to say huh, really, your ovaries they are not what i expected. I instantly began to sweat and i got really nervous. When the US(ultrasound) was over with i changed my clothes and i had to walk across the hall into another room to have 4 tubes of blood taken from me because they wanted to check some things. I was so nervous and upset from the doctor saying my ovaries wasn't what he expected that when they were drawing blood from me i got really hot and almost passed out. (i never do that).Time 2 hrs into our appointment. When all said and done we went into another room with a table and they came in and explained to me that my ovaries were not PCOS ovaries which meant the reason why i was not ovulating or having a period is due to my hormones being crazy and still diagnosed me with PCOS because i have everything else that comes with PCOS,. GOOD NEWS!! They handed us 3 prescription papers and then began to explain our process that we needed to follow.
The steps as following:
1. Begin to start taking prenatal vitamins
2.Begin to take the provera (medicine to make me start my period)
3.Call the doctors office day 1 of period
4. Day 3 of period go in to the doctors office for blood work
5.Days 5-9 begin taking 50mg of Clomid(fertility medicine)
6.Day 14 come into the office for an US(ultra sound)
7.Day14 GIVE SELF SHOT (Ovidrel, shot to release the egg)
8. Call doctors on day 34 if you started your period or even if you haven't.
Time 3 hrs into appointment. Really 3 hrs i just spent in a doctors off. I cant explain the joy and excitement i was feeling that day knowing that everything could be ok and that these people were going to do everything it takes for us to try and have a baby. I am so thankful of the staff at Bethesda North for Reproductive Health and Fertility.
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