TTC 35+ thread 10

[Marvellouslymadmum]

We ran out of thread!! Will go back and try to tag everyone in here 🤦🏼‍♀️

@MgW1 ahh I see! I need some more so will be trying it next month

I’m having grapefruit at the moment for EWCM. I know EPO is used for it too, I haven’t had that in a few months now.

@Marvellouslymadmum what cd are you now? I’m cd 15.

@mgw1 I have been taking ubiquinol this month and my ewcm is ridiculous, just too much, it's gross 😝

Thanks @A1b2c3d4e5f6g7 @VixFromThe6ix @GuessHowMuch!

I think COVID has obviously made it all 100 times worse. Some people seem to have more normal GP arrangements but I can't get past the triage receptionist so I've just left. The triage system will still be in place at my new one but I'm going to go in on Friday and ask how I see a doctor in person. I'm going to keep pushing because I have a long list of things they need to sort out and it's not ok to keep using COVID as an excuse not to see people imo.

Well done on resisting the testing @vix!

@Noodella18
How many dpo are you? I have a week to go I think max 😫 AF due between Mon and weds x

@thislittlebird I wasn't able to see a doctor in person for over a year. Both my family doctor and fertility clinic has been all over the phone or over zoom calls. Another zoom call tomorrow 🙄😕.
Ontario has been in lockdown floor over a year.
Hope you're able to see this new doctor face to face 🤞🤞🤞 so much easier to talk in person

Yep, I'm on the grapefruit juice again, I swear it worked 2 years ago - 1 month of the hideous stuff every day at breakfast and we got our BFP. That was after almost 2 years of trying, so it had to be the juice 😂

@MgW1 I think I'm 0 or -1 dpo! 😄 positive opk today and also had a temp drop which I wasn't expecting, but was up til 2 so might be that. Rely stupid amounts of ewcm though, have felt damp all the time for the last two days 🤮

@VixFromThe6ix I totally get why they did all the zoom stuff initially (although for me it was just phone calls which are even more useless) but I've had nightmares with my health because of this system and not being able to get help/be seen. Skin conditions being diagnosed over the phone is insane (and it wasn't diagnosed properly at all, I had to pay to see a specialist). There should be a mix of in person and virtual appointments instead, maybe.

And yes, I cannot overstate how much I feel the need to speak to a person face to face right now. I cannot do all this health stuff on the phone anymore, it's so impersonal and insufficient when you have stuff to properly talk through and resolve.

@thislittlebird I definitely think telephone triage has its place - for people who know they’ve got a UTI or whatever and just need antibiotics then it’s great. But like you say, Covid totally isn’t a good enough reason not to be able to get a face to face appointment. There’s people sat at home wanting/needing to see a doc and feeling like they can’t. Must be super frustrating!
Am I remembering correctly that you had a course of prednisolone? I’m supposed to be starting a two week course myself next week. I took a lot of steroids a few years ago and I’ve literally only just lost the weight! 😩

Thanks for the vitamin info @A1b2c3d4e5f6g7 - I might order some of the Proceive liquid.

I’ve been sprinkling this on my breakfast lately. Not sure if it’s placebo but I’ve felt a bit better and more energetic since starting it.
www.hollandandbarrett.com/shop/product/linwoods-milled-flaxseed-almonds-brazil-nuts-walnuts-q10-60086085

@thislittlebird do you need to be examined? If so that's probably your best way of getting seen face to face. I would also request a double appointment and pick your top 2 things to talk about, because each 10 minute slot is meant to be for 1 issue. I always thought I was being efficient by saving up a list of things to query but actually it's not feasible for a GP to cover that in one slot. My partner is a GP and does see some people, but really not very many (practice policy) and generally sees them in the car park. If you don't need any examination it might be worth seeing if there is any other type of consultation which would be ok for you, like video link etc as it sounds like the Covid policies won't be changing for a while.

@thislittlebird sorry, lots of posts while I was typing - sounds like you totally should be able to be seen f2f because of your skin needing to be examined. I'd lead with that!

@VixFromThe6ix you can do it!! Just remember how it makes you feel and that should stop you. Good luck! 🤞🏾
@Marvellouslymadmum I've got my pineapple ready to eat now that I'm stimming. It's delicious isn't it 😋

I found this webinar on TTC while everyone else is pregger. It's odd timing though ...1am on Fri. Will share if I find it's useful.

@Noodella18 my skin is better now but the reason is got so bad is because I wasn’t allowed to be seen and the they refused to refer me. They kept assuming it was just run of the mill eczema, but there’s more than one variety of eczema and mine was severely infected.

Unfortunately it’s come back again the last week or so, likely because I’m stressed, and I now have new breakouts. The derm I saw in March gave me creams and I’m still using those, but I’m running out and need my doctor to look at the letters the dermatologist sent to the GP and put the stuff on my repeat so I can manage it (and the anxiety) myself. If they’d just do that it would make my life a lot easier but the receptionist refuses to let me speak to anyone. I hope they won’t be weird about my letters being addressed to the old surgery when I take them in to the new one. No one has even looked at the damn letters I spent hundreds of pounds to get.

I hate this triage system more than I can possibly express. Receptionists giving out incorrect results and blocking me from seeing health professionals has done so much damage to my health (mental and physical) the last year.

The chance of getting anything done seems slim, never mind more than one thing at once. Hopefully the new surgery will see me. Video call would be ok for this, but my other surgery didn’t do video at all.

@GuessHowMuch I think it’s ok for some things but it shouldn’t be a blanket approach. As mentioned above, the doctor’s receptionist being left to decide who is seen is awful imo. She told me the other week I could speak to a doctor and then I called back a week later on the day she told me to and she said tough luck, basically. It’s atrocious that there’s no proper appointment system for those that don’t have an emergency.

How long were you on steroids before? I had 9 weeks of antibiotics (two kinds) and 6 weeks of steroids recently. I definitely got a touch of moon face but I think they finished before it had time to get worse and it seems to have died off now. It’s a nightmare.

@Noodella18 can’t help but laugh at the car park appointments lol

@thislittlebird heh, yes, kind of ridiculous. Right, so your old surgery sounds terrible. Does the new one offer econsult? I think that would work really well for the repeat prescription because you can put the info down for the dr to read rather than relying on the reception staff to get it right. In the first box tell them exactly what you want to achieve, make it really easy for them to understand the situation without too much detail, like literally three points, ie I have x problem with my skin, I was prescribed x medication by derm, I would like a repeat prescription issued, please see attached letters. They were trying to get me to book a drugs review for my sertraline and I wrote that I felt the drugs were still working fine, I didn't want to mix things up because my sister's leukaemia had just been diagnosed and was stressful and I wanted them to reissue the repeat prescription. They did it no questions. Best of luck with it.

@Noodella18 honestly it’s been so awful the last year and it used to be such a good surgery when we joined a number of years ago. The other weird thing is at least two or maybe three of the regular doctors all vanished last summer and now there’s a locum in place of them. It’s bizarre, I don’t know where they’ve gone. One is old so is likely shielding and the rest aren’t around. All very odd.

Yeah I think the new one does, they have an online portal and said I can be set up on that. My previous one didn’t so every single thing went into the daily morning call queue and the receptionist got to decide who the lucky callers were each day! She’s lucky I didn’t complain about her really, after the wrong results incident. I probably shouldn’t bother calling them again (was thinking I should because of the consultant letter received today) and just get it all set up with the new surgery.

Going to get checked out by the nurse on Friday, hoping I can clarify I’m set up for e-consult then. Useful to know I can be specific and say I want them to put XYZ things I need on my prescription.

@thislittlebird I'm cd13 (actually had to look that up I've been so relaxed this month 😂)
My docs have the triage thing but are happy to book you in for a phone consult with the doc first off then if they need to see you they book you in. Hopefully they'll get things sorted for you!

@Teachermummy83 I'm deffo trying the grapefruit juice!

@notyetamumbuttrying I think pineapple has been my favourite thing to add! Followed by the goji berries, I like those in my granola lol

@Marvellouslymadmum I’m cd16 now and just got my peak. I wouldn’t mind if there was an option to see someone after a call, or a video call, but there’s nothing like that at mine. Hoping the new one will be better.

I'm CD 17 and finally lost my peak :) after several days of it. So happy that after today I get to chill a bit. @Noodella18 and @thislittlebird seems like we're similar place in our cycles this month!

@thislittlebird not that you should have to do this AT ALL, but given you really need your meds and skin stuff a private GP could be an option if you get nowhere with the new GP surgery. I've used them when desperate, it was about £85, got an immediate appointment that day and I came away with the medicines I wanted.

@thislittlebird hopefully if you tell them how much trouble you've had the last year they'll be a little more helpful! It may take a few calls with different gps to find one who is helpful but I really hope there is one there for you

@A1b2c3d4e5f6g7 good news for you!

I'm not exactly sure what my body is doing, I ran out of cb ov sticks last month and ordered more but they only turned up yesterday afternoon! 🙄 so I've been using the strips but they were climbing up and now went back down again slightly today but I haven't had my peak yet unless it went from 0.6 yesterday morning to peak last night and I missed it but I hope not!! 🤞🏻 it'll be tomorrow or Saturday and we can dtd again from later as oh has his sa today, which he isn't looking forward to lol. After my call from the gp at 7.20pm Tuesday apologising for not booking me in on a scan I got a call yesterday booking me in for one tomorrow! She must've asked them to squeeze me in or something, I'm definitely keeping this gp as my favourite!!

@Marvellouslymadmum ooh I've not tried goji but I love most berries so will give them a go should we move onto a 2nd ivf cycle. What time in your cycle are you supposed to have those or is it all cycle round?
Hope peaks still to come! Good luck for your OH's SA today and yay for your scan tomorrow, hope all goes well 😘