Saturday, 18 August 2012
Ultrasound
It was at a specialist women's ultrasound clinic.
Boy there's a massive difference between the private ultrasound clinics and the medical imagining clinic I had the first one done at.
Also I've got to say I was a little jealous of all the women bringing out there 3D baby pics. I guess who wants pics of their ovaries? Lol.
The clinic was really nice, the suite was massive with its own loo, and there was a massive plasma on the wall showing you everything she was doing.
This compares to the tiny room in the medical imagining place with a somewhat cranky technician and no monitor besides the technicians one.
The dr doing it was also extremely nice and enabled me to ask a lot of questions as well as explained what she was showing me.
Basically she found same kind of findings as the last one. Looks like polycystic ovaries with heaps of follicles of each >28 on each.
Some previous endo which is healing, uterus is great though.
This is just what i could tell, as I don't get the results until I see the gyn.
So I'm anxious to see the gyn and get the results!
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.
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!