Well... I started all of my new meds and I wont lie, I was sick as a dog! That metformin is no joke! It kills your stomach! The idea behind Metformin is that it keeps your blood sugar regulated and helps with miscarriage rates because having PCOS you have a increased rate of loosing the baby once you become pregnant.
I have friends going through the same treatment plan i was going through so it made life a little easier. I stayed very optimistic in our first cycle and stress free. I felt if God wanted us to get pregnant than we would. For our first cycle of meds we decided to have timed intercourse instead of any procedures. You start out when you get your monthly period. Three to five days into it you have what they call a baseline ultrasound to make sure there is no cyst or any other issues. If you are clear then you begin treatment, first month i was good to go! You take your meds nightly and then after about a week and a half you go back in for another ultrasound to see how many follicles your body created. For a "normal" woman the number of active follicles changes with each cycle, but typically only one follicle per month in a single ovary becomes dominant over the others and produces a viable egg. Well with fertility treatments you often want more. My first treatment I had several so i was clear to go home and give myself the ovidrel shot to release those eggs that we grew! Giving yourself a shot is very intertesting, my six year old (at the time) thought it was super cool! You give it to yourself beside your belly button. Then if you choose no procedures you just have intercourse when your doctor tells you to. Typically 14 days after your ovulation you take a pregnancy test. Now something I should mention is the Ovidrel shot you give yourself when you are ready to release your eggs is straight HCG! A lot of women test too early and get a false positive on a pregnancy test. HCG is the hormone that your body makes when you are pregnant so testing too early can pick up on the shot. I tested day 14 and was let down. I got a negative on my pregnancy test but of course I dusted myself off and continued with my busy life. Oh I should mention that my aunt and uncle had just arrived a day or so before for their first Hawaiian adventure. Day 16, still no period and I took another test, it was POSITIVE!!!! I handed the test to my aunt and said ummmm do you see a line? She was soooooooo excited and I was so thankful they were there with me because my husband was away again training for the month. We had FINALLY got our positive!!! I was so excited and thought of so many ways to surprise my hubby when he got home from the field! I had made up my mind that I was going to write your going to be a daddy on the inside bottom of his coffee cup so once he drinks it he will see the message. Man I was so excited and honestly shocked that we had one treatment and BOOM baby! So I continued to play tour guide and take it easy with my aunt and uncle and i took them to North Shore to see the roaring waves. On our way we stopped at a coffee place that is very popular to look around. Once we arrived there I decided to go to the bathroom and when i went in i was shocked that I was bleeding. I went numb. I had not even got to tell my husband we were pregnant yet. I just went into the coffee shop and didn't say a word. After, I wispered to my aunt i was bleeding, ill never forget the look she had on her face. I know from the fertility world that if you are miscarrying there is nothing they can do for you. I bled with my first pregnancy too so I hoped it was just like the last and would be fine.
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