Any other DISers trying to concieve? Reread OP for the QOTD!

[beckmrk04]

I am dreading the glucose test- but I go to my Doc next week (I haven't seen him in 1 whole month!!! Which means, I haven't been hospitalized OR sick for 1 whole month- in my world, that's a mini-miracle ) I have read about people consuming JELLY BEANS instead of the glucose drink, and I am going to see if this is an option for me, especially since I'm 1) prone to vomiting anyway; and 2) I still have a hard time drinking stuff I LIKE, much less stuff that's nasty. I just don't know if I can do it.

Really, if the lab obliges, you could eat/drink anything with lots of sugar- the catch is that the lab has to know what the amount you are ingesting IS. So, some labs are letting women eat a set # of jelly beans (all sugar, no doubt) and then testing their glucose levels like that. Sounds much better to me!

Elaine- A ticker! I Love it!

Emily- I O'd on CD 13-14. But it can vary so much. Don't worry about your temps, just watch them. ANd I never had EWCM. EVER. I was so stressed about it- convinced I would be unable to get pregnant because of my inhospitable environment... And, that's obviously not true. So, just keep temping at the same time, and pretty soon you'll look at your chart and see where your avgs are, and you'll notice when you are above them consistently. I HIGHLY reccommend the Ovusoft Software (it goes along with "Taking Charge of Your Fertility" and you can buy it online (and download it) for about $40 or so- I loved that software. I plan on using it again if I ever think pregnancy is a good idea again).

 

[Jen_in_NH]

Wow! You guys are having your tests early! I don't get my 1hr test until next time I go which I'll be just past 28 weeks. I am not looking forward to it though since i haven't had good experiences with sweets.

I had mine at 12 weeks, since I was on the Glucophage for insulin resistance before I got pregnant, and then stopped it when I found out. So far, they want me do one every 6-8 weeks. That's what I get for failing the first 1 hour one.

Jen

 

[Minnesota!]

I had mine early since I had GD with my son and I have been feeling "off" and wanted to nip it if I did have it again. My class is next week. Get to start pricking my finger every 4 hours!

Elaine - what was your dad's reaction? Was he just tickled? So excited to see your ticker, BTW!

Carla - I am glad you have found someone nice and willing to take you immediately :O)

Still feeling ill, can't wait to get home and eat something (hotdish tonight - something comforting). And then veg with DS.

 

[kellyf2626]

I think I've found a new doctor. Kelly, I called that Montanarella office. They were SO NICE. I told them my sad story and she said, "Well, we want you to come in ASAP and get comfortable and situated." I see them on the 30th. I also did a little search for her name and saw some nice comments from patients and a small interview with her on the Elliot Hospital website.

That is great that the Montanarella office was so nice! Keep me posted on how your appointment goes, and what your impressions are. Good to know that at least over the phone they were understanding and nice.

Elaine...nice ticker!!

Well, I have had the WORST headaches all day today. They will come and go, but hit me hard! DH tells me that he wants to pack all night tonight. Yuck!

 

[ImarriedGrumpy]

Wow, I go away for the weekend and there's all kinds of catching up to do! I still haven't made it through all the pages of stuff I missed, so I'll keep reading...

Dh and I were volunteering at a camp near Malibu this weekend. We were helping to lead the kitchen of volunteer cooks to make meals for 250 college students and their leaders. It was crazy long hours and lots of work, but very fun.

I'm very irregular in my cycles, but I know based on all my charting that I should be O sometime this week, so I wanted to start BD on Friday or Saturday and then continue regularly through this week (lots of time in the brown bikini, I guess! ). Well, we get to the camp on Friday night to discover that we have our own room, but we have to sleep in bunk beds! Now I'm a very petite woman, but Dh is a pretty big guy. We tried to snuggle up together in one bunk, but it just was not working.

One or the other of us kept hitting our heads on the bottom bunk, and both of us had several close calls of almost falling out of the top bunk when we tried that instead. We both ended up laughing and making jokes about "you know you're old when...." ("You know you're old when making out on a bunk bed is more awkward and painful than fun") It was really pretty comical, and I realized that there was just no way we were going to BD this weekend, since our only other option was the cement floor (which even with a sleeping bag on it was very hard and cold).

Oh well. Hopefully I'll O later this month and we can still get in a few BD at the right times! Although it would have been darn funny to tell our child someday "you were conceived in a bunk bed at a camp near Malibu..."

 

[beckmrk04]

Ahhh, bunk bed lovin'!!! That is TOO funny.

And, I'd just like to say,

Do your thang, Brown Bikini!!

 

[Pollito916]

I was surprised at all of the early glucose tests, too. Mine won't be until my 27th week. I really hope I don't fail, b/c I don't think I could give up all those tasty foods.

Carla - the story about your OB just about made me cry. That is so sad. Like the other person said, at least he went doing what he enjoyed. Can you imagine if that happened during your delivery, though?!? That would be so traumatizing!

 

[PoohPrincess76]

Hi all. I have been meaning to post for a week now and haven't gotten to it.
I went to the Dr. last week. Even though DH and I are waiting to start trying until January I thought it best to talk to him and get some info. Boy, am I glad I did. He told me to stop the BCP at the end of my cycle (5 more days since I don't take the dummy pills) and put me on PNV already. He also put me on a diet. I have been able to lose 4.5 pounds last week , only 25.5 more to go.

Carla, I am so sorry to hear about your OB. I had to switch in the middle of my first pregnancy and know it can be hard, although, I didn't have the history you had with yours.

To everyone else.

 

[exwdwcm]

The camp/bunk bed loving is great! lol- you can always say "honey, you were conceived at a camp!" hey, whatever works! and work your brown bikini girl!

Carla, so sorry to hear about your OB. That is awful. but glad you potentially found a new one that will hopefully work out. sounds like your OB was an amazing person.

still took off today from work, still sore from the lap. plus aunt flo came last night with a venegance. so much for my pain not being as bad. i thought removing the endo would help. but my period pain is still so bad that i would have stayed home from work probably. strong cramping and horrible back pain. maybe it is just too soon to see a difference. at least i didn't have PMS- no pain before, like usual, just during. still hurting horribly though.

and called the doc to see about getting a clomid prescription to start my next IUI cycle. He said pre op that we could do one. the office wasn't clear though. they said to just come in friday for my previously scheduled post op appt and they will do the clomid then (day 5 start, instead of day 3 like in the past). they said we will just do a clomid cycle. i am not happy with that, since i just found out my insurance covers the IUI (but not IVF) and i am changing insurance in jan. so nov and dec are the months to do the IUI cost free. so i want to do it in november. so i am going to push the issue on friday. i just don't think i can conceive naturally if the entrance to my cervix is as small as they say and i don't want to waste anymore time at 33.

anyways, still feeling crappy, but hoping to get better by this weekend for 3 halloween parties! ugh! anyone else have some to go to- what are you going as?

 

[tiggersmom2]

anyways, still feeling crappy, but hoping to get better by this weekend for 3 halloween parties! ugh! anyone else have some to go to- what are you going as?[/B]

I am going as a nun.......

 

[kellyf2626]

.anyone else have some to go to- what are you going as?

Well...DH and I are going to a party that has a theme - TV characters. So, my girlfriend and her boyfriend are going as McDreamy and Meredith, so DH is going as McSteamy and I am going as Addison.

 

[DisneyDreamer8]

Hey guys...just checking in

Carla so sorry about your Dr. that is just so sad.

Well I got a + OPK last night and tonight so we BD'd Friday and last night. Hopefully DH won't be to tired tonight.

I am always confused as to how long we should continue to BD every night because last cycle I had 4 + OPK's in a row...so when did I "O"?????

I also have had problems finding an OB...I can't get in till Feb. They put me on a waiting list for cancellations but who knows...I guess I will just have to get pregnant and then they will have to see me

 

[beckmrk04]

I am going as a nun.......

That's what I was going to be! But my Catholic DH thinks it's in poor taste...

Um, yeah, DUH!! That's why it's funny!

Alas, we aren't going out for Halloween anyway, so I am staying home and dressing up as a Black-Eyed P (I'll have the letter P on my chest and do a black eye with make-up... Corny, yet satisfying... )

 

[ashjohnson80]

We're having a halloween costume party. I'm going as Slutty Dorothy and my DH is going as a Slutty Devil Woman. It's really quite funny. He bought his costume at Hot Topic.

Well I just ordered Preseed, and I really hope that is worth it. Yowza.

 

[ImarriedGrumpy]

Our friends do a huge Halloween event each year where they transform the front of their home into a different theme each year. For example, the year POTC came out, they turned their porch and front of the house into the Black Pearl, complete with a huge mast that extended up from the center of their roof and large sails. He dressed up as Jack Sparrow, she was a generic female pirate. Last year they turned the house into Hogwarts castle and had over 500 kids come past trick-or-treating. (He was Dumbledore, she was a student from Griffendor, my DH went as Hagrid, and I was Prof. Trelawney)

This year they are turning their place into Willie Wonka's Chocolate Factory (using the new movie) and handing out golden tickets to friends and family. If you get a golden ticket, you get to enter the house and enjoy the real chocolate fountain in the living room. He's adding to his Johnny Depp costume collection and will be Willie Wonka, she's going to be an Oompa-Loompa, and they're dressing their baby girl as a squirrel! I'm going as a bag of candy (Sugar Babies - I couldn't find and don't have time to make a Wonka candy bag), and DH isn't sure he's going as anything this year. Anyway, this weekend we'll be helping finalize the "set" and get all the details in place. They had a big painting party over the weekend with about 15 people over to help paint and assemble some of the larger pieces, which I'm bummed we missed!

 

[7beasley]

Hi All

The halloween parties sound like so much fun!

Just wanted to pass along that my stupid insurance company DENIED my appeal to have the donor's egg retreival covered....ugh - I HATE HATE HATE insurance companies.

Their rational was that it was not a covered transplant and they only pay for heart, lung, kindney and some other organs and that eggs are not organs.

I hope they rot and burn and hell for all eternity. I also hope that the bit*h that denied me suffers through what I am going through or that someone she loves gets POF so she can suffer through this hell only to be denied.

If a smoke 200 packs of cigarettes a day they will pay for me to get a new lung with no questions asked but if my body fails me and my ovaries shut down even though I am only 32 they says "sorry - don't let the door hit you in the a$$ on the way out"

So infuraiting and frustatring.

Sorry for my irrational and yelling vent -- I just HATE this stupid insurance company!!

We have to wait now until January to do the donor's retreival and my IVF because (thank god) our new insurance Tufts is going to cover it. I know January is only a few months away but we started TTC in June of 2005 and I feel like I have been on this rollercoaster FOREVER and I just want to get off it and get things going and go through the implanation!!!

Okay - thanks for listening to this vent.

Hope you guys are all doing well.

-Nicole

 

[lovinwdw]

Hi Everyone! I've posted in the past that DH & I would be starting to TTC once we returned from our wonderful WDW vacation! I recently stopped the pill in September and we have begun trying. In fact, we had our first disappointment my 1st cycle. So, I bought the book Taking Charge of Your Fertility and have made note of some very interesting information. We have started trying again and will keep on trucking until it happens. It's amazing to me. You try for years and years NOT to get pregnant and then, when you really really want it, it doens't happen! I know it's only been 1 month since we started trying, but it's still a disappointment. I truly thought that we would get pregnant right away. But we'll survive and keep on trying! Thanks for listening!

 

[mickeyboat]

I'm right there with you, Nicole.

lovinwdw - good luck to you. I had the same feelings as you. You spend all kinds of time, money, fear and frustration trying not to get PG for years. They tell you that you will be fertile for a long time, and not to worry. Then when it comes time to want to get PG, you spend all kinds of time, money, fear and frustration.

Denae

 

[AllyandJack]

Nicole, that stinks. Good thing your company is switching to Tufts. Get away from those people. BCBS paid $1,700 for my retrieval and my transfer....I find it hard to believe paying for the donor's retrieval is going to break the insurance company. I wouldn't wish infertility on MOST people, but I have to admit to wishing at least a LITTLE bit of it on certain people. Mainly Senators who vote against mandatory coverage for infertilty. Part of me hopes some precious member of their family finds themselves in the situation of shelling out thousands of dollars for a family.

They all think it can't happen to them. As if we're told when we're born that we're going to be infertile. Ya, doesn't work that way. It smacks you right in the face when you least expect it. Then, you're smacked again because, heck, you can have an abortion paid for by insurance, but not treatment to create a life when a very real medical condition is preventing if from happening. Makes perfect sense to me.

 

[beckmrk04]

Nicole- I know it sucks, but just focus on January- a fresh start to a new year and a pregnancy to look forward to! 2007 is going to ROCK!

lovinwdw- I know how you feel; it seems like all you are taught growing up is that the minute you have intercourse you'll be knocked up. Well, I have come to the conclusion that it works for teenagers, but not happily married and ready adults. Because I know we BD'd LOTS of times before we actually concieved!!