Well, here goes nothing! This is the first official post to my shiny, brand spanking new blog. And on a day in which I am given such great news following my second saline sonogram..."your uterus looks great". Yes, what every girl dreams to hear!
My story starts out simple my husband and i got married back in 2011 and got pregnant the first time we tried a few months before we got engaged! Yay?! But then found out the hard way what it means to be 'a little pregnant'. About two days after getting the faint little + sign I started spotting, then bleeding, etc. My doctor gave me a pregnancy test (blood) and said not to worry, that this happens sometimes, and to not give up hope yet. I was scheduled for an ultrasound which determined things were far too early on to see anything. Well, I went on to experience a miscarriage right around 5.5 weeks. I bled for 9 days straight and had some bad cramping although not unlike what I would normally feel with my period. Beta confirmed my levels were in decline until they finally read a 2. Ok, i had given up hope when i saw them drop from test 1 to test 2.
We sat out a few months to gather ourselves and let my body recover. We also had a wedding to plan for. And didn't want to deal with this kind of thing on a honeymoon. Well we have been trying, unsuccessfully, ever since. After 6 months went by I sought out guidance from my OB/GYN which offered little to no help, said that she had magic hands, and after these exams from women who are 'worrying for nothing' about not being pregnant quick enough....9 out of 10 get pregnant within the next try or so. Yeah right, great. Her 'magic' voodoo hands did nothing. I did however find out I was deficient in Vitamin D my levels were 19 which they would like you to be from 50-80 range. I was given Vitamin D3 to take and more prenatal pills and sent on my way. But not without some judgey comments from the doctor first, before the exam she asked me how old I was and asked how long I'd been married....I was 31 and had been married 6 months. She then questioned if it was really a good idea to have kids so soon after being married? Wow, I think my husband and I can decide when the best time is to start a family thank you very much!
Needless to say this conversation would just get better when at around 10 months of trying without success my OB/GYN scheduled me for an hysterosalpingogram (HSG). This is an X-ray test that looks inside your uterus and fallopian tubes to make sure everything is open and in working order. Let me tell you, this test was HORRIBLE. I experienced the worst cramping i've ever felt in my life. I was crying and just trying to breathe out slowly the entire time. The doctor couldn't get my cervix to cooperate and used some horrible mideveil device to clamp onto it to hold it in place, then used a balloon to expand the cervix and proceded to inject knifes into my uterus (ok really it was the contrast dye). The whole thing took maybe 10 minutes from start to finish.
My doc determined that I had a 'slight' bicornuate uterus and it wasn't that big of a deal. This diagnosis was new to me and of course had me wondering what the heck it meant. My doc casually mentioned that I'd probably require a c-section and would be considered a high risk pregnancy but that it shouldn't affect my fertility at all. And on a positive note, my tubes were wide open!
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