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Sorry Andy for not telling you all I was posting…I didn’t want to screw it up too soon! LOL

I met my new gyno doctor today…Dr. Roy. She was fantastic. My yearly isn’t scheduled until September, but you all know how I worry and with the whole not getting pregnant…figured probably a good idea to get this ball rolling! Pete came with me (and they did the whole work up – lucky Pete, his first Pap LOL). She was very intelligent and very understanding. Answered all my questions to the fullest, and let me/us know my/our options.

My BMI (Body Mass Index) is not causing our troubles with getting pregnant – let’s just get that out of the way first. Yea! She said – do I want you to eat healthy – YES. Do I want you to exercise regularly – Yes…but you aren’t training for a marathon. So that was nice to hear. I kept wondering if my weight was holding us back, but then I wasn’t sure what to do. I have been eating as healthy as I can (and organic when possible I would like to add). But I don’t exercise regularly…and that is something that I need to work on. Pete and I had starting biking, but then we’ve had this roll of CRAPPY weather that has really hindered us. So hopefully this weekend it can be back on the bike. So I was really happy to hear that for two reasons. One: she’s not a doctor that takes the easy way out and two: It just felt good to know that it wasn’t ALL my FAULT! Whoo!

She looked at my menstrual chart that I have been keeping since Dr. Harpole took my IUD out 2 years ago. I had recently (within the last 4 months) been doing an OTC ovulation testing kit, so it had that information. What she said that she noticed is that my Luteal phase is actually short.  It should be 14 days, and it’s been running around 10-12.  What she thinks maybe happening is that I am short of progesterone.  There really isn’t a good test for your progesterone levels since they fluctuate so much every day, so they diagnose this clinically.  She’s prescribed me progesterone (which is the natural hormone version).  I am to take this the day I start ovulating and until my period starts again (or through the 1st trimester).  I will do this for up to 6 cycles, and then we’ll meet again – but she did offer for me to feel free to make an appointment after 3 cycles if I need to talk again.  I asked her for the next step after 6 months and she said that what they would do at that point is keep me on the progesterone, but also add Clomid.  It looks like to her that I am ovulating, but that the clomid would not only help in the ovulation, but also in procuring a “good” egg.  After 6 months of that, if we still weren’t pregnant, then it would be time to see a specialist.

I’m feeling very upbeat after this meeting.  I cannot wait to conceive, and hopefully low progesterone levels were all that the problem was!  (Keep your fingers crossed).  Although I don’t know that Peter will be so excited about the PMS symptoms that come along with the progesterone….LOL

In other news:  my mother went in on Thursday for full gasteric by-pass surgery.  I’m still not sure what I think of this…but she is my mother, and I love her!  More on this later, as I don’t know what else to say.  She came out of sugery fine, was able to have her meds this morning and some broth and jello and that all held down fine.  So it’s 21 days of liquids only then a couple of weeks of soft foods and then onto real foods.  I hope this really works for her!!!