Thats ist really, short and to the point.
Have been ttc for a while, gp has done bloods on day "21" and all i can glean from the officious receptionist is that they are "normal" , no further details unless i wanted a gp appt on 22june!! I already have this gyny appt booked for tomorrow, any ideas what this will entail on first visit? Am not sure if they will have the blood test results from gp for me to discuss further or will they do more do you think? Not sure what the procedure is from now, can anyone enlighten me with their own experiences of time frames etc? Also (sorry tmi) am on day 6, so although not really bleeding anymore am a bit worried if they do internal and is a bit bloody up there? Are you still supposed to go if you have just finished your period? or rearrange? am new to this and hate it all. Only thing keeping me going is trying to think to myself "it will all be fine" and that i am only going to RULE OUT anything being wrong not to FIND OUT what is wrong. If that makes sense. Sorry i am probably just worrying about the whole thing but being unsure about what will actually happen is just makeing me a bit more anxious on top of everything.
Any ideas gratefully recieved.
Thanks x x x
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pussycatmomma · 17/05/2006 18:44
thanx littlefish, hiya trace. Dh not going with me , but a friend is coming along for moral support and to help calm the nerves. He has not been to his gp for his sperm analysis yet and im worried that as he is reluctant to go, that any treatment or investigation will be delayed for me. His theory is "get you checked out first, if you're all ok, then i'll get checked". Somewhat selfishly imo. if not selfish, at least a bit "im alright, im not the prob" approach iyswim. Good idea about the photocopy blood results, but i am certain the receptionists will refuse me any help in that department, and speaking to the dr is like finding gold dust 
. Do you think its natural to be a bit nervous or am i just a silly baffoon?! Also do they do an internal on first visit or what?
hello all, thought i would report back. Thankyou to everyone who has left messages, i find this communication reassuring, even though i dont know any of you, support comes in lots of different guises i guess.
I was a nervous wreck but did have a good friend along with me for moral support. The Dr (dont know if this is right term, think he said he was a registrar?) was v. nice. Didnt really ask me as much as i thought he would. Asked me if periods were regular, i explained that i had some incredibly long cycles and then times when af itself was v. long, he said these were blips in an otherwise regular cycle which could be caused by stress or any number of other factors. But he didnt elaborate. Wrote down that my cycles were regular. Asked if i smoked (no) drank alcohol (couple of glasses wine once a week max), said my bmi was fine , asked about dh smoking/drinking/weight. I was suprised at how little info they needed really. I had a quick internal which he said seemed ok. They did have the blood results from the gp, but he said from the results it looked like i didnt ovulate on the cycle the results were taken. I could have cried, I know it sounds silly but i was really expecting them to be fine (dont know why). He then went on to explain about 2 procedures (dye in tubes and x-ray, and laparoscopy) He said i had a choice about which i should do, and after his explanation that the lap is more thorough and can detect other stuff like endometriosis i said that one. Have been asked to go for more bloods at my gp, between day 2 - 5 for first lot, and day 21 for 2nd. Can anyone enlighten me as to what they are checking, also if i didnt ov last time, do i ov at all???? So all in all, good news i guess, i am getting checked, but i feel a bit dazed and shocked i think. For the first time it is becoming a reality that this really isnt as straightforward as deciding to have a baby and getting pregnant. I think i have been telling myself it is all fine, and "these things take time" etc but now this may not exactly be the case. Feel quite about that.
As for dh and sperm test, dr again re-iterated the need for it as early as poss , gave me pot and instructions where to take etc. Dh not in the right frame of mind to discuss, tried when i got in,but he shocked same as me i think, keeps saying there is no need. But dont worry i am going to work on him on another day - he will need to come up with a pretty good reason not to. He is a good man, dont get me wrong, and we have an honest, loving relationship, but i think there is just something about a man and his sperm, when it comes to testing for any discrepancies as it were they just do not want to know! or at least take a lot of talking round. I will keep you all posted.
Very sorry for going on, but it is all going round in my head still and im trying to be as relaxed as poss about it but really feeling as if reality is hitting home.
((((((((((hugs to all )))))))Thanks for listening.
OMG, SORRY DIDNT REALISE JUST HOW LONG LAST POST WAS. 
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Hi pcm - it's good that you've got the first appointment over and done. I know it feels very overwhelming at the moment.
To try and answer some of your questions - You can have an occasional cycle when you don't ovulate (I think it's called an annovulatory cycle, or something like that). This was exactly what was happening to me. The cycle when they took my first blood test showed that I wasn't ovulating. I started having acupuncture and three months later when my levels were re-tested, I was ovulating normally.
I'm sure someone more knowledgeable than me will be able to confim this, but I always know roughly when I'm ovulating because of the change in my cervical mucus. Don't read on if you're squeamish!!!! Around the time of ovulation, your cervical mucus changes from creamy, to stringy, like egg white. You should be able to stretch it several inches between your finger and thumb (if you really want to! 
). Once it stops being stringy and becomes thicker, you have probably missed ovulation.
The egg white cervical mucus (sometimes referred to as ewcm) is thinner, and helps the sperm to reach their target! After ovulation, it becomes thicker and more acidic which stops the sperm.
I know I had the same blood tests taken as you, but I can't remember what they were for. I'm sure someone will be along later.
Feeling sad about this process is completely normal. We always assume we will get pregnant easily (and spend years trying not to get pregnant!). It's very hard when you're faced with the possiblity that things may not be so easy after all.
Just to give you some hope - things looked very bad for my dh and I. After ttc for 2.5 years
we were told that IVF was our only hope of having children. The month before we were due to start IVF I found out I was pregnant naturally and we now have an 18 month old dd.
Never give up hope!!!
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