2 thoughts

Medicine isn't always the best, especially when it messes with your taste buds. My love for coffee went out the door when I started taking some of the meds to help with my PCOS.

But! Something cool came of it. I've switched to drinking tea. The hubs and I were walking around the mall and we stumbled across a store called Teavana. My best friend had mentioned it before, but I had forgotten about it. It's a little pricey, so I decided to think about it, only to come back to it the next day. They have some really beautiful teas and they are really tasty.

This is the blooming tea I got. 

This is me enjoying that tea :)

Onto my 2nd thought. 

I went to my specialist for an update on the PCOS. In a nutshell she told me that she couldn't do anything else for me, and the medicine I'm on isn't doing what she had hoped it would. She also told me that the clomid that I had taken (2 rounds) didn't seem to work either. She suggested that I go talk to my OB or go to an infertility specialist. I decided to talk to my OB. The nurse told me that I should continue taking the clomid and if it doesn't work by June, then we'll talk about seeing an infertility specialist. 

I don't like that I have 2 conflicting pieces of information. I decided to take another round of the clomid, but if it doesn't work I'm going to go in to talk to my OB. I don't like the fact that clomid could potentially cause cysts if I take it for too long. What is the point of taking the clomid if it isn't working? 

We shall see. I've done research. The fact is that each person is different, and there is no definite answer. 

So the answer for now is- keep praying and time will tell. 

Christmas Spirit

I'm a little bummed this Christmas Holiday.

I won't be up in Jerz with my family, and we don't really have any family here in VA. However, I'm trying to keep my spirits joyful by doing a few fun things.

I saw this cute Pinterest idea. I made some for my co-workers for a holiday gift. Seeing as I'm not made of money and I like to be crafty, I thought this would be a good idea. Here is my version of the idea!

I also saw this really cute idea! It's a neat way to give your neighbor a little gift. I put one of my candy sleighs in the "You've Been Jingled" bag.

I hope you are enjoying the holiday season and are in the spirit!

PCOS Post

I don't think I wrote about our latest decisions.

I'm a teacher, and in my wonderful world, I'd love to have a baby in the summertime. But God is probably sitting here laughing at me and saying it's not in your timing(!) it's in Mine. Which I need to be reminded.

Anyway. Back on track.

After my visit with the Endocrinologists in August, we (mainly I wanted) to try to speed things up a bit in hopes that maybe I could have a baby this summer.

I called my obgyn (because the Endo can't prescribe clomid), she prescribed the clomid and progesterone to get things going. Progesterone makes you cycle, clomid makes you ovulate.

Well, we did a round in September. No baby obviously.

We're on round two now. This time around I decided to get some testing strips to see if I'm actually ovulating. That's the big question!

I'm also trying to get the hubs to get checked out too, just to be on the safe side.

I don't have my hopes up, but I am praying.

For Bill

I was looking through my pins on my pintrest, and I was looking for crafting ideas.

I saw this idea.

Of course I thought of my mom and step dad, Bill. We are all antiquers. But Bill's mom has an antique shop, so I asked them if they had yard sticks that I could use to make this.

Bill thinks they have them. So, hopefully I can craft this cool idea!

Upcoming Doctors

I have a doctors appointment coming up in less than 2 weeks. Aunt flow hasn't visited since the gave me medicine to help with that. I've been taking the metphormin religiously.

I'm going to see if the might give me the clomid to help me ovulate. We'll see if they'll let me take it this early on of "treatment".

I'll let you know when they say!

taste buds...

I’ve had a change of taste…

I’m assuming (yes, I know where assuming can get you) that it’s because of the Metformin that I’ve had a change of taste. 

My sister and her husband were visiting 2 weekends ago. She makes really strong coffee. But I can handle it most of the time. This time I wasn’t a huge fan and I don’t think I drank the whole cup. And usually I love coffee! 

The next day we go to Wawa to get some coffee. Should be a great cup! Nope. Didn’t even touch it. 

So, now I’m obsessed with Chai Tea. Specifically this kind —-> 

And I wasn’t interested in my dinner last night. So I ate two bowls of cereal instead. 

I just might drive my husband crazy. 

Layin it all out...

I've been debating about airing out my dirty laundry. But I feel like I need this for me (and others with my struggle), so I'm going to do it even if it's a scary thing to share.

Like on a Monopoly Board, let's begin at the start space. September 2011 the hubby and I decided to go off birth control. We weren't too concerned about getting pregnant at that time because I knew that I probably wouldn't cycle on my own based on my history. And of course I was right. I didn't have a cycle for months.

Now, I'm going to share something embarrassing, so please be sensitive. A few months after stopping my bc I noticed some dark hair showing up on my face. I didn't even tell my husband because I was so ashamed and embarrassed. This is when I decided I couldn't take it anymore and I needed to go talk to my ob-gyn.

I went to visit my fabulous ob-gyn in April 2012 and tell her my symptoms. She starts to connect all the dots, especially when I told her about the abnormal hair growth. With my history as a young girl- never getting a period on my own until the gave me medicine and having to be on bc to regulate my cycles- she told me that she thought I had PCOS- Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome.

So I have to come back to get blood work, which is one of the ways they test to see if you have PCOS. I also had to get an ultrasound of my ovaries, which is the second way they detect it (your ovaries will be enlarged). And of course after the testing came back it showed I had PCOS.

But of course something else was curious. I had extremely high levels of testosterone. Yup. I felt like a man. My ob-gyn assured me the levels were not even nearly as high as a man would have, but it was cause for concern. So off she sends me to an endocrinologist.

My endocrinologist took about 4 weeks to get in to see. Very frustrating, I wanted some results. But she was very sweet. She confirmed the PCOS and ran some extra tests to see what was going on with the testosterone. Results came back with no major alarms. She gave me Provera to make have a cycle. Which I might add was horrendous because it had been so long. I also started Metformin to start to regulate my body.

At this point, I've had one cycle because of the Provera. I'm waiting to see in the next week or so if the Metformin is doing the trick and hopefully I'll cycle on my own. If that doesn't work, I'm going back to see my ob-gyn in August to discuss adding Clomid help me ovulate.

I'm not sure if anyone will read this blog. But if you are struggling with PCOS, I feel for you. I feel like a lot of women are walking around with it and have no where to talk about it. So this is my way of talking about it.