Afternoon all 👋 I didn't mean to go off the radar, but the acupuncturist gave me a lot to ponder 🤔 Overall a relaxing experience, but I'm relatively sure that not all first consultations involve the acupuncturist saying "please don't punch me in the face" 😂 He'd asked lots of questions, got all my back history and asked about my cycle and patiently waited through my list of fertility trackers, OPK's, timing DTD to FW and fertility lube. He then politely said that in his 12 years of working in a fertility clinic it was always the case that as soon as couples "stopped trying" and stopped putting pressure on themselves was when they got pregnant... and I've never been good at poker, so I think my face said it all and betrayed me 😤😂 That's when he asked me not to punch him in the face 😬 He then advised me to chuck out my OPK's and he actually flinched from the look on my face after that suggestion 🤣 In all fairness, he pointed out that I have regular cycles, the OPK's agree with my app about when I ovulate, so why am I still religiously POAS and making things more clinical/non-relaxed when I know what the answer is going to be? Good question, I thought. Made me stop and think/not punch him in the face 🤔
So. He thinks that my fertility issue may actually be something to do with a mundane condition I have called hyperhydrosis (which in my case is ridiculously hot and clammy palms and feet on and off). He says this may be causing a fluid imbalance that is affecting my fertility - not sure if I buy it, but I'm willing to stick with it and give it a go for a couple of months. He apparently practices an old fashioned kind of acupuncture that goes for really strong pressure points with fewer needles. Only put 8 needles in me total. The first one (in the top of my foot below my big toe) felt comparable to the 'sharp scratch' you get when you get bloods done, which was fine 👍 He then put 3 along the inside of my right calf and I didn't feel those go in at all 🙂 The last 4 were where it became apparent that he had lured me into a false sense of security - two in the lower part of both index fingers nearly sent me through the 🤬ing roof!! He said that's why he left those until last! 😂
I do feel remarkably chilled today and my hands/feet have been mostly dry for the past 24 hours, but that's not too unusual. I'm seriously thinking about leaving the OPK's alone this cycle because he's right - I know when I ovulate, so why am I doing them? He advised leaving the fertility lube in place though because of the dryness issues (sorry for the TMI!) and said to try and just DTD when we feel like it, rather than just timing it to the FW. We'll try 🙂
DP also proudly came back from the nice GP lady with his SA pot, bless him ☺️ Turns out our local hospital is quite good and has a couple of "production rooms" (DP is already calling them "milking rooms" 🤣) that DP's can use to produce their samples. DP's really happy about that because he was stressing about how he'd get it there in less than an hour with traffic and parking and everything. He's going to go next week 🙂
Apologies for the overly long post! Feel free to rant about bathroom fitters for me @AstroKate! I would've done the same last week, but we're thankfully sorted now. The kitchen fitters are in now, but so far so good there 🙂
Good luck with FW @Oxted2018 🍀
Sorry for AF @Russkispy 💐 Please let me know how you get on with reflexology. Don't know if I can cope with someone touching my feet though!