We had our next doctor's appt today with Dr. Pete. Can I just say, I have the best doctor around! He seems genuinely interested in our case and has an understanding of our desires. It's awesome to feel like he's there for us, not just to shuffle us through and collect our money, but to make our dreams our realities!
After going through the last three months with meds that my body didn't seem to respond to, I will admit, we entered the office a little discouraged and unsure of what the outcome of the visit would be. We want to be parents yesterday. These things take time, though, so we press on and jump through all of the hoops in hopes of achieving our ultimate goal... to raise a God-honoring family... in HIS time, not our own.
With PCOS, it is very common for women to have higher levels of testosterone in their bodies than estrogen. As any PCOS woman, I exhibit these same frustrating side effects. Dr. Pete believes that is the reason that my body did not respond to the 50mg of Clomid that I have been taking. On the positive side, I only had to endure nighttime hot flashes during the first dose, but by the second dose, they were gone. That is an encouraging thing, since now we have upped the dosage... doubled it actually to 100mg (for days 3-7 of my cycle) for the next three months. Unless of course, God allows us to conceive before the 3 months is up. If not we will try this dosage until September 9 when we will return to Dr. Pete to evaluate where we are and where we will go from there.
I did have a chance to ask Dr. Pete a few of the questions that have come up over the past few months. I wrote them down as they came to me, so I wouldn't forget. I will have to remember to do that again, because I felt so much more informed after leaving this time. One of our biggest questions had to do with the timing of things. Why is it necessary to do the different dosages for 3 months? If it doesn't get me ovulating, can't we bump it up right away? Dr. Pete's answer was, we can, but this way, my body gets used to the side effects of the meds and I won't suffer as many for as long. Ok. I'm ok with that. My heart still wants to rush through the dosages though... I don't want to waste time. Then, even as I say that, I realize that were not wasting time. We are moving at God's pace and we are enjoying each and every day we have with just the two of us... knowing that soon our lives will be turned upside down (in a good way) and we will be parents!
In the meantime, our other concern was my endometriosis and what that might be doing as we continue waiting. There are two treatments for it... pregnancy or hormone therapy. Obviously we are going with the pregnancy treatment, but in the meantime, I wonder what the endo is doing in there. We did pose this question to Dr. Pete. His response was as I suspected... there really is know test or u/s they can do that could tell us.. the only way is with another laporoscopy. At this point, we are trusting that God is holding that at bay. We are not ready to halt the fertility treatments to do a laparoscopy. It's unlikely that it is changing much since I am having periods, despite the fact that they are drug induced.
Anyway, that is our most recent update on the baby front. Hoping to be able to share some really good news in the next month or so. We'll see what the Lord has planned! Until then! Blessings, my faithful readers!
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