Hi ladies
Hi to the newbies, welcome :-)
I need to catch up on this thread, as been staying away since my gynae appt last week, when I got the catastrophic blood results, and it looked like I was having premature ovarian failure and the chances of even IVF were pretty slim
This is a long one, so strap in! Apols for such a long post, but quite a lot has gone on over the last week.
The last week has been so so hard, as it was a lot to deal with. I’d gone from being polycystic with a good ovarian reserve at 28, to seemingly pre menopausal at 33.
I was coming to terms with the very real possibility I might never be able to conceive, and seriously thinking about the possibility of donor eggs. And very, very, very sad.
However.
The scan last week didn’t match the bloods, as there WAS activity. There was a dominant follicle and the consultant wanted me to take Clomid to see if we could see any response.
Obv given the bloods, it looked like we’d need the sledgehammer approach to get any response, and the gentle nudge of low dose Clomid was likely to do bugger all
Except it didn’t. I took it Mon-Fri last week, and today the scan showed a nice ripe juicy 22m follicle, and 2 other smaller ones that the Clomid had kicked into gear.
Fuck. Me.
Consultant said he absolutely didn’t expect to see this at ALL. He was flabbergasted looking at the ultrasound screen. It is v v v good news.
Maybe the soy did something as well to get me to the point of getting a dominant follicle going in the first place, won’t ever know. But holy crap, my ovaries responded to Clomid.
My lining was very thin, so even if we do manage to catch this egg, the chances of implantation this month are slim. And giving me medication to thicken the lining would throw everything else out, and he doesn’t want to bugger around with my messed up hormones even more.
That said, I’m going for a trigger shot tomorrow, and should ovulate 36h later. If DH can get back to London by tomorrow evening, we’ve been told to DTD Thu and Fri to see if we can catch the egg. Not expecting anything, but we’ll give it a go just in case!
Hopefully if I ovulate, that’ll mean I have an actual cycle, and even if I don’t get a proper period because the lining is so thin, my cycle will be reset so we can redo the Day 3 bloods.
And more to the point, given I’ve miraculously responded to 50mg Clomid, then there is a v v v good chance that I should respond well to much stronger FSH stimulation for IVF. And that if the lining is looking too thin, we can freeze any embryos we get, give me medication to thicken up the lining and do a FET the next month so there’s hopefully a nice comfy lining to give the best chance of implantation.
The risk of multiples with injectables + DTD is too great, so injectables + IVF gives us a much better chance of a healthy pregnancy.
And whereas last week it was ‘there’s a slim chance of IVF working but it’s very slim’, it’s now ‘OK things are looking very good, let’s go full steam ahead and try and get me pregnant’
My consultant trained under Professor Robert Winston and is the lead clinician for reproductive medicine at Barts Hospital, so he knows his stuff. He said the bloods had him completely stumped and (his words) ‘I’m not usually stumped’.
So Christ knows what kind of medical marvel I am.
However the point is that what’s going on with my ovaries is what matters right now, not what the bloods say. And that’s a hell of a lot more positive than the bloods would suggest.
I asked him if I even still had PCOS, and he said yes, it doesn’t go away, it’s just that my bloods and ovarian appearance are likely completely thrown off course by all the medications I had to take over the years (incl double dose of a high oestrogen pill). So def to keep on with the low GL etc.
So hopefully I can still stay on this group as he says although I don’t look PCOS right now, I do still HAVE PCOS, if that makes sense!
Head still spinning, but now in a good way.
We have a plan. And things are looking significantly more positive than they were.
And breathe.
xxx