Friday, January 23, 2015

Still sick and post-op

I am still suffering from a cold/flu.  I felt quite a bit better over the weekend, and I am now feeling awful again, and I'm not even sure if it's a relapse of the previous illness or a brand new one, but I need to start feeling better soon.  My husband is still in England dealing with his grandmother's illness, and being on my own is quite hard for several reasons.  One is that I am taking care of the animals by myself.  Walking the dogs twice a day in very cold weather is definitely not helping, and the dogs are not letting me rest at all when I am at home.  They are constantly getting into trouble.  I also am not able to park at work, and so if I'm sick my husband usually drops me off.  Since he's not here, I've had to bike, and biking in cold weather is also not helping.

This morning I decided to just stay in bed and not come to work until it warmed up a bit.  I also didn't walk the dogs, I just let them run around in the yard on their own (not their favorite, but it had to be done).  It was definitely the right thing to do.  By the time I left the house, I was feeling much better.  Of course, by the time I got to work, I was feeling pretty crappy again, but at least it's Friday, and I have Monday off, so I have three days of rest ahead of me.

I had my post-op with the surgeon on Tuesday afternoon, after my eye check-up Tuesday morning.  My eye exam went well until the end, when the doctor noticed something strange about my retina.  She called another doctor in to look at it, and they scheduled me for a re-check in three months.  I hope my insurance covers it.  I am also very nervous about it, since I am by nature a very anxious person, and no one really explained to me what was going on.  Hopefully I will get more information in April.

My post-op with the surgeon went as well as can be expected.  He told me that my uterine cavity was looking pretty good, although a bit narrow in one spot.  He suggested waiting for at least one cycle and then going back for another HSG just to make sure my recent surgeries didn't cause any issues with my tubes.  He also said he thought the fibroids were the reason I wasn't getting pregnant, that my uterine lining looks great otherwise, and that we should go head and start trying on our own as soon as we're ready.  He didn't seem too concerned about my AMH and FSH, that they're not great but not horrible, and there's no reason why we couldn't get pregnant if we keep trying for a while.  He also said that if we end up moving to IVF, he would want to do a non-surgical hysteroscopy in the office to make sure everything looks ok (that sounds HORRIBLE to me - someone looking in my uterus while I'm awake!)

I guess this is good?  Obviously, we'll start trying again once D gets back from England, and I will start using OPKs after the beginning of my next cycle, and schedule an HSG for the cycle after that.  The thing I'm worried about the most is my eggs.  I had a blood test in June that showed my AMH at 1.37, a perfectly respectable number.  My most recent test, which was in October was at 0.85, which is apparently not great since it is below 1.  Unfortunately, I can't access it to see if they used the same units, but the Does this mean my fertility is going to be gone really soon?  Was one of the tests a fluke?  I just don't know, and it worries me.  The tests were done at different labs in different health systems, so they could be using different methods and have different standards.  I just don't know.

1 comment:

  1. I don't have any advice to give on the AMH testing, but I hope you feel better soon. Being sick is tough enough and then being worried about your eye, tests, etc. Take care of yourself. Hugs.

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