Well it seems that we are pretty much back to square one on fertility treatments. The injectible medications DID actually work..but unfortunately they worked TOO well, causing too many follicles to develop which could potentially lead to me becoming pregnant with multiples (not just twins, more like 4+ babies..eek!) and as much as I love Jon & Kate, I don't envy their life with 8 children and our doctor is not willing to put us through the risk trying to get pregnant this cycle could bring. So....he thinks our only option is to do IVF when we are ready for it. This is a VERY big step in the infertility process and neither Andy or I is ready for it yet. So after a discussion we've decided to take a break from 'trying' and see if I can try some natural methods of getting a cycle back.
The first step I'm going to take is a Nutrition Response Test to see if there's anything my body is lacking that could help to restore my menstrual cycles. I'm going to the chiropractor tomorrow and planning on talking to her about it. I know there must be SOMETHING natural that could help...if anyone knows of anyone with similar problems that I've had (hypothalamic amennorhea) PLEASE leave me a comment with any treatments that helped them. I'm pretty desperate to try anything. I am taking this news surprisingly well considering how upset I was last week when the Dr. told us this may be what would happen. Andy is pretty upset about it too, but we know that God has a plan and we are trying to leave this in His hands. Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers and thanks to those of you that have been recently, we appreciate it.
4 comments:
Suzie,
Have you ever gone to my parents place at Ocean Shores with Sally?? There is a running joke that the place is fertile. So many of us could have... or have gotten pregnant while out there. Maybe a trip to Ocean Shores:) LOL. Meanwhile... will keep you two in my prayers. I got your comment and will enter you in the drawing. Just let me know when you are ready to order new wax:)
Oh man! I'm sorry Suze! I know that's not the news that you wanted to hear! I'm thinking about you all.the.time! :)
Hi Suzie,
I was just checking the stats on my blog, noperiodbaby, and saw a referral from here, so I thought I'd come check it out. I'm really sorry your cycle was cancelled. There's a really great support board for HA at http://www3.fertilethoughts.com/forums/showthread.php?t=563777&goto=newpost, I really suggest you check it out if you haven't already. In general, RE's are very dismissive of the idea of weight gain and exercise decrease as a cure for HA, but they have been proved time and time again to be wrong. If you're still on the thin side, you may want to focus on gaining some more weight - a number of women on the board have overstimmed while underweight but then either gone on to get pregnant naturally or have much more successful injectible cycles after gaining some weight.
Sorry for the book in your comments, but this is a topic very close to my heart!
xox
Nico
Have you thought about acupuncture? I used to see a good one in downtown Tacoma. His name is Christopher Woon. He does some amazing things for people and their ailments. It might be worth a try.
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