Morning everyone, seems I forgot to turn off my alarm for Monday morning, so really wide awake now. DH is snoring away nicely!
Nelly I hope your 2ww is going ok and that you are enjoying your secret hobby this weekend.
gin well done with your injections. I think that's soo brave. I'm terrified of needles and really hoping once they've found out why my progesterone levels are so low it will involve pills, creams or pessaries. Sorry to hear it causes red itchy lumps. The things we ladies have to do! Oh and what news about your Dad. I hope you're coping ok.
lisa sorry you've been feeling down. Hopefully you're enjoying a lovely long weekend filled with treats and fun activities. You are allowed to bitch and moan as much as you like on here. We're all going through a prolonged rough patch in our lives and everyone needs an outlet somewhere. You're in good company, everyone's very understanding.
carebear hello and welcome to our gang [busmiley] good luck with your immune testing. Let us know how you get on.
izzy whoop whoop! Your little sea monkey (as dh and I refer to them pre-12 weeks) sounds like its coming along nicely. Everything is crossed for you.
Artemis I'll join you for a line of folic acid, you can drop a couple of my vitex too if you like? Your neighbour sounds like a complete nightmare! I think I'd be having words or at least making loud, snide comments from the other side of the fence in that particularly Britsh way!!
Waves to everyone I've missed xx
In my world we've been doing the house, at a wedding, a 30th birthday party, a lunch in Surreh with my mum and dad and back at the house to strip wallpaper from the ceiling. Any DIY rows can now be blamed on my hormones as can any other bout of irrationality. There have to be some benefits...
I'm not surprised at the bad doctor stories. My heartfelt apologies to all who've been on the receiving end (most of us!). And yes we should be grateful for the NHS, but we do pay for it out of our taxes and the least we can expect is to be treated with compassion and dignity. When I started to MC the first time, I was 27, unmarried but in a loving long term relationship and hadn't planned to get upduffed but was a very happy accident. The first doctor I saw told me not to think I was being punished by God for getting pregnant outside of marriage. We were both so stunned and angry that we just sat there and took in her horribly prejudiced and dillusioned diatribe. I've also been told that women don't have time off work for MCs because they are "a normal part of life" and that "your babies were just not viable, women in Africa living in famine conditions have healthy babies". These comments were not made by 1 but 2 female doctors, in their 60s who were so cold that I spiralled into a deep depression (referred by a different doctor 6 months later for counselling, which I declined) because I thought I couldn't cope and that everyone else could. Now 3 years later they do the tests and I barely have any progesterone , which could well explain my depression, MCs and more. Why don't they do these tests earlier rather than waffling on about nonsense????!!!!
I've also been reading Take Control of Your Fertility this weekend, which has convinced me to start charting again. I thought that my charts were useless because they were irratic, now I realise this is exactly what I need for keeping an eye in my levels. I've found it a very helpful book and it outlines in simple language all the things that can be done if shagging alone doesn't get you there.
Ive also been enjoying reflexology which is doing wonders for my moods and I'm going to re start yoga. I was a bit worried it caused me to MC last year as I did a big astanga sesh just before it all kicked off. I'm now confident it's hormones but I'm signing up for a gentle yoga class.
Also, I've spent this weekend outlining our hormone woes to loads of old friends we've bumped into at various social gatherings. Most of my friends don't have children, but even the one's who do have been kind, supportive and suggested everything from keeping up the non drinking to acupuncture practitioners in our area. For me , it's been a massive relief to outline that I have a medical problem and that we are being positive and I am totally not ashamed that something in my body is not working. Im not ashamed that I have terrible eye sight and wear glasses / contacts why should I be embarrassed about TTC and hormone problems. Actually, I feel fan this weekend. Informed, positive and able to cope. This is the first time in years.
Have a really great bank hols everyone xxxxx [bugrin]