What do these pictures have in common?

A bed

Poppy seeds

Blood samples


Capsules

Pills

Apple Seeds

Scroll down to find out!

They all have this in common!

See that little black ball in the middle?! Thats our baby!!! Due October 26, 2011

The bed is well, obvious I hope.

The poppyseed is how big the baby was when we found out we were pregnant, Feb 12, 2011

Blood samples = hCG #1 38, #2 913, #3 210 (The hCG is the chemical the body gives off when pg, you want it to at least double every 48 hrs)

Capsules=progesterone suppositories. To maintain a pg, your progesterone levels need to be at least 9.5. Mine were 19.5, then 17. So I get to take these 2x/day. Super fun....

Pills=prenatals. The vitimins to keep me and baby healthy. These are special ones for me thanks to the whole IR.

Apple seed is how big baby is now!!

More to come on this whole process!

PS keep this on the downlow until we announce on FB later this weekend!

We have a diagnoses!!!

Last Friday I had my testing and yesterday they got the results! Drumroll please.....


I am insulin resistant. This means my body's insulin is not as effective in reducing blood sugars. If not caught in time it could eventually lead to diabetes. They put my on Metformin to fix it. Insulin Resistance is a marker for PCOS, which is what they had diagnosed me without testing before. But now it is certain. So now on with the metformin and see how I do on it.

I'm supposed to take 1 pill once a day for a week and then go up to 2/day if I tolerate it.

Here is a link if you want to read more on it:

http://pcos.insulitelabs.com/Root-Cause-of-Insulin-Resistance.php

I hope this Dx will help fix me now!

Day 3 Testing

Today I woke up an hour early. Got the kid dressed, fed, and off to daycare. Then drove over to the lab. I got there about 10. I had 2 orders, 1 for FSH, LH, and Estradiol. The other was a glucose test. Now here is the issue. Today should be day 3 of my cycle. Wednesday I am 90% sure was day one. How is this even a question? Well because any and all signs of AF have dissappeared! Seriously. Thursday was light spotting and today nothing, not even slightly blood tinged. (Sorry if TMI, but hey its my blog right?).

But I decided to go to the lab anyway because I had already fasted and brought Wy into daycare early. Well, almost 10:30 they finally called me back to get my first draw. I was sooo freakin hungry! Well I had to stay hungry. After my first draw, I had to drank some nasty orange sugar syrup water crap. It took everything I had not to barf. Seriously, empty stomach+sugar crap=nauseaus!! Well I got to go sit in a small waiting room for the next TWO hours! To my joy, this mother daughter duo came in. For the first 45 minutes of my two hour wait I got to hear this wonderful conversation:

I can't believe I way 109 lbs. Francesca only weighs 101. But I can fit into her size 1 buckle jeans and she cant!! Ugh I wish I had boobs. I have no boobs or butt. Francesca has big boobs and is sooo skinny!

Well Francesa looks like she has gained a little weight, has she been eating junk?

No she eats what I eat, I just stay skinny. UGh they want my to run on a treadmill and I am soo sore from dancing yesterday.----------Are you going to be good?---------I hope so.-------------Me too, since you will be up in front of 100s of people.-----Ugh I hope I do good at Miss Kenosha.--------Me too honey.

It just kept going on like that over and over and over. Holy cow, I just wanted to slap them! Oh and this icing on the cake? "Well at least I know Jason loves me for me since I don't have boobs." Explain this logic to me please.

Time to get started

I started spotting today. So that should mean tomorrow could be day 1, or later today. That means either Sunday or Saturday will be day 3. So not too bad. Husband should be home in time to watch the kid while I go sit in a lab for 2 hours and drink two cups of orange syrup. Yes it tastes as "good" as it sounds. That would also mean the HSG would be on Saturday. Again not too bad, as husband can entertain kid in the waiting room while I go get my ute dyed. Wonder if they could tie dye it haha!

Good news is that I called the insurance company and they said that they do cover the diagnostic testing. The S/A will be covered as long as we show proof that it is an on going issue (IE cancer etc). And the HSG as long as it isn't to obtain a pg , which it isn't its to see if I can get pg not make a baby, its covered. This all may end up being a battle, but as long as we can provide reasons for the testing and it isn't to "make" the future baby then it will be covered!! Yay for good news!

RE Appt done

We had our consult yesterday with the RE. We have a plan. Its a small plan, but hopefully it will get us somewhere.

As of right now, he wants me to have day 3 testing (3rd day of my period) which will include a blood draw t check FSH, LH, and Estradiol which are all hormone levels. Also he wants to have me do a Glucose Tolerance test. I did this once before to check for Gestational Diabetes. Now though it is to check to see if my body is intolerant to insulin, which would confirm a Dx of PCOS. On day 10 he wants me to have an HSG (an Xray of my ute, tubes, ovaries) to see if there is a blockage. And he wants T to go giz in a cup and see if he has good motile, mobile, spermies.

Now for the problem. Insurance. Our insurance apparently doesn't cover infertility testing. Which is weird because when I emailed them they said they covered testing just not bypassing the problem (IE IUI and IVF). So I get to call them today. The S/A for T may be able to be covered if Rx'd by his urologist for "cancer checkups". The blood draws and the glucose test may also be covered. However the HSG most likely not. But that test is 2k+. No way we can afford that!!

So we may just do the basic testing and see what it comes back with. I know there is something wrong. I don't know what it is but there is a hormone off balance somewhere. Good news is this Dr also doesn't think its my thyroid. So hopefully he is right.