At my doctor's request I have been taking prenatal vitamins since last May. Other pills I can stop in between treatment cycles but the prenatal vitamins must be continued. Well it's now been an entire year of them! I must admit I'm not very enthusiastic about taking them any more. I started off taking the 3 times a day one that the guy at the health food store said were really good. Once I saw what it was like to be taking 9 other pills 2-5 times a day plus injections I decided that once a day Centrum materna vitamins were a better idea. I'm now on to random cheapo once a days. Seeing at bottle of prenatal vitamins when you've unsuccessful been trying to get pregnant and stay pregnant for 7 years is kind of depressing. Ok well then optimistic me says at least they're good for me regardless!
I'm also exhausted all the time and I can't sleep. I feel like going to sleep at 7pm every day. This must be what it feels like when you're pregnant or have a new baby that doesn't sleep at night...except I don't.
Ok well this is one of the most depressing blog posts I've written....just ramblings of a woman who needs to go to sleep! 8:15 pm...good night.
Monday, May 16, 2011
Gene mutations?
My doctor recently let me know that he got more test results back and I have the prothrombin gene mutation which puts me at risk for developing a deep vein thrombis and higher risk for miscarriage and other pregnancy complications.
I did some reading about it and found out that it mainly occurs in Caucasian people and is most common in Spain. I inherited this mutation from one of my parents and they are both from Spain....how interesting. The good thing is that it is treatable with injections of Heparin which is a blood thinner. My doctor was going to have me on heparin anyways but now I get to start it sooner and if I should get pregnant I'll be staying on it I think.
I am not a fan of more injections but I am very happy to know about this problem and will gladly do them if it means helping the embyos implant and helping a pregnancy to continue.
I did some reading about it and found out that it mainly occurs in Caucasian people and is most common in Spain. I inherited this mutation from one of my parents and they are both from Spain....how interesting. The good thing is that it is treatable with injections of Heparin which is a blood thinner. My doctor was going to have me on heparin anyways but now I get to start it sooner and if I should get pregnant I'll be staying on it I think.
I am not a fan of more injections but I am very happy to know about this problem and will gladly do them if it means helping the embyos implant and helping a pregnancy to continue.
Why am I doing this?
Sometimes I think I don't want to do this anymore. It's too hard and just ends in more pain and loss. So why am I doing this for the 4th time? I think the only reason now is for our 6 embryos. They are precious little lives that I hope will make it into our arms. If not for them I think I'd be so done with this treatment.
But here we go....round 4 is coming soon! The doctor was so happy I was ovulating last month so he suggested we try to get pregnant on our own. The chances of that are slim but I thought ok if he thinks so and well God can do anything right? I didn't tell anyone but I secretely prayed for a miraculous natural pregnancy. Well no such luck. My doctor instructed me to take my temperature every morning, last month I had a nice clear ovulatory pattern-YAY. This month it was all over the place, i had some hope that maybe the temps were just off due to some irregular sleeping so I asked the clinic what to do and they sent me for bloodwork. The blood work on Friday showed I'm not ovulating at all now and several hormones are too high or too low. The solution for all this is of course MORE MEDICATIONS and birth control pills again. For someone who is trying to get pregnant I sure do take a lot of birth control pills!
The only nice thing about birth control pills is that it makes the timing of everything way easier. I will be flying back to Victoria on May 31 for my appointment on June 1st to have some lovely procedures that are supposed to help my embryos implant. Then back home to start the estrace and heparin injections on June 7th. I just realized that May 31st is our 14th wedding anniversary. Nothing like going alone to a fertility clinic so another man can investigate your uterus instead of celebrating your anniversary with your husband!! Ok well at least it gives us some kind of way grow our family and we can of course celebrate the anniversary on the 30th instead.
They say a mother will do anything for her children...well if we are so blessed to have one of these embryos make it into our arms I guess it will have started long before their birth. Oh Lord please let our little ones live and grow and grow and grow!!
But here we go....round 4 is coming soon! The doctor was so happy I was ovulating last month so he suggested we try to get pregnant on our own. The chances of that are slim but I thought ok if he thinks so and well God can do anything right? I didn't tell anyone but I secretely prayed for a miraculous natural pregnancy. Well no such luck. My doctor instructed me to take my temperature every morning, last month I had a nice clear ovulatory pattern-YAY. This month it was all over the place, i had some hope that maybe the temps were just off due to some irregular sleeping so I asked the clinic what to do and they sent me for bloodwork. The blood work on Friday showed I'm not ovulating at all now and several hormones are too high or too low. The solution for all this is of course MORE MEDICATIONS and birth control pills again. For someone who is trying to get pregnant I sure do take a lot of birth control pills!
The only nice thing about birth control pills is that it makes the timing of everything way easier. I will be flying back to Victoria on May 31 for my appointment on June 1st to have some lovely procedures that are supposed to help my embryos implant. Then back home to start the estrace and heparin injections on June 7th. I just realized that May 31st is our 14th wedding anniversary. Nothing like going alone to a fertility clinic so another man can investigate your uterus instead of celebrating your anniversary with your husband!! Ok well at least it gives us some kind of way grow our family and we can of course celebrate the anniversary on the 30th instead.
They say a mother will do anything for her children...well if we are so blessed to have one of these embryos make it into our arms I guess it will have started long before their birth. Oh Lord please let our little ones live and grow and grow and grow!!
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