Thursday, 2 August 2012
How helpful?
Basically I waited an hour and a half to see her for 15 minutes.
She said the same kind of things as my GP said.
Only things different were she wasn't too worried about the other things on the ultrasound besides the PCOS ovaries. And she wants me to get a specialist ultrasound after my next AF. And suggested to take progesterone to speed it along.
She did say my uterus looks good which is nice!
And she also wasn't too worried about the high prolactin as she said any kind of breast situation before the test can distort the results (accidental and during intercourse etc).
Basically she just wants to compare the previous ultrasound and the one that will be done after the next AF and go from there.
It was kind of annoying waiting for so long to see how for so little. I thought she would have an ultrasound machine on her practice and do one then. But she didn't and charged just over $200 for not much new information.
Sunday, 17 June 2012
Blood tests and stomach pain
Besides re-taking prolactin they're also testing other hormones like testosterone to help identify if I have PCOS. I'll get the results next week before I see the gyno.
DP had a general check up too and little did I know that his body doesn't like getting blood taken. Poor thing got all sweaty and pale and his eye sight went weird and he had to lay down.
Isn't it weird when we see your men all insecure we both worry and love them more?
Overall I've been pretty relaxed considering I'm in the middle of my final uni exams for the semester. Only thing is I've had a sore stomach for a few days and I'm not sure why yet, I just know its nothing I've eaten, so I'm wondering if it could be more af coming? Only time will tell.
In the mean time I'm addicted to my hot water bottle.
Friday, 15 June 2012
What's wrong with my body?
When I first went to my gp (a few months ago) with no af she diagnosed me with secondary amenorrhea and ordered some tests... after a bfn of course...
Her first thought was that I had no af because I was underweight (I somehow, not intentionally, lost 6kg) and only weighed 46kg.
So I've been stuffing myself and still have only gained about 1kg...
She also did blood tests and the only thing that stood out was prolatin. Mine was unusually high at 919.... (normal levels are 85-500). This was over a month ago and I am re-testing tomorrow.
She thought this was due to stress (I didn't think I was stressed?) from working 3 days and having uni for 3 full days. Here I was thinking I could handle it, and I thought I was. Reluctantly I cut down my hours to relieve pressure on myself, sacrificing that extra money I'm trying to save for our house deposit.
I also had an u/s about a week ago and that just brought up more questions.
- No signs of a baby of course (still broke my heart a little.... I know I'm dreaming)
And talk about being uncomfortable? One thing I'm not looking forward to when pg, I'm prefer a pap any day over an u/s... lol
Wow where do I start? Talk about a lot going on down there??
Firstly I had or have endo... (probably why I use to have such painful af)
I have a slightly solid nonspecific nonvascular hyperechoic lesion? (Got to love that medical mumbojumbo)
I have more than 20 follicles on my ovaries and probably pcos (even though I'm under not over weight and don't have excessive hair growth?)
My gp referred me to a gyno which I have an appointment with at the end of this month.
So now the impatient wait for more answers!