fertility update
Nov. 10th, 2004 10:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
percivalI went to see my GP today.
Explanation for the delay in communication:
- The letter to my GP where they asked her to assess my suitability for IVF was typed a week after the appointment, sent out a week later.
- The waiting list for the appointment to get onto the IVF waiting list is normally 3-6 months, not 4-6 weeks, as the Icelandic registrar told me
- My GP had a copy of a letter about my fibroids, which was typed up last week, and received by the practice yesterday.
The GP palpated my abdomen, and one of the fibroids, which must have grown between 2002 and 2004, is the size of a grapefruit and needs to be monitored. It makes my belly look slightly swollen. She seems worried; she'll write to my consultant, whom I've never seen, always registrars, and ask for an appointment.
She advised me to stick to my guns and ask to see a consultant, even if that meant waiting until the end of the clinic.
I'm expecting to see a fertility doc sometime in February or March 2005, and then get my first course of IVF in autumn 2007 or winter 2007/2008, aged 34. That is, unless a miracle occurs some time before that and I fall pregnant.
Orthodox medicine can't do anything about fibroids, apparently, except cut them out if they seriously distort the shape of the uterus. I think mine does distort the shape of mine a little - you could see a clear dent in the fluid on the Hysterosalpingogram, which might have been it. But I would need to talk to a doctor about that who has my results, right? Well, we'll see - in another couple of months, hopefully.
I'm still incredibly tearful and upset; I broke down during the appointment and tears are welling up again as I write this.
I am SO going to stick to proper nutrition and no coffee.
I am SO going to do everything I can to become healthy.
I am SO going back to the herbalist and the Shiatsu therapist.
Explanation for the delay in communication:
- The letter to my GP where they asked her to assess my suitability for IVF was typed a week after the appointment, sent out a week later.
- The waiting list for the appointment to get onto the IVF waiting list is normally 3-6 months, not 4-6 weeks, as the Icelandic registrar told me
- My GP had a copy of a letter about my fibroids, which was typed up last week, and received by the practice yesterday.
The GP palpated my abdomen, and one of the fibroids, which must have grown between 2002 and 2004, is the size of a grapefruit and needs to be monitored. It makes my belly look slightly swollen. She seems worried; she'll write to my consultant, whom I've never seen, always registrars, and ask for an appointment.
She advised me to stick to my guns and ask to see a consultant, even if that meant waiting until the end of the clinic.
I'm expecting to see a fertility doc sometime in February or March 2005, and then get my first course of IVF in autumn 2007 or winter 2007/2008, aged 34. That is, unless a miracle occurs some time before that and I fall pregnant.
Orthodox medicine can't do anything about fibroids, apparently, except cut them out if they seriously distort the shape of the uterus. I think mine does distort the shape of mine a little - you could see a clear dent in the fluid on the Hysterosalpingogram, which might have been it. But I would need to talk to a doctor about that who has my results, right? Well, we'll see - in another couple of months, hopefully.
I'm still incredibly tearful and upset; I broke down during the appointment and tears are welling up again as I write this.
I am SO going to stick to proper nutrition and no coffee.
I am SO going to do everything I can to become healthy.
I am SO going back to the herbalist and the Shiatsu therapist.
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Date: 2004-11-10 04:22 am (UTC)Random image of the day.
focus on the now. let go of the dreams and watch them float - if they are mere bubbles they will burst, and if they are hot air balloons, then they'll come back to you, lighter than before because they'll have ditched the baggage.
Hot air balloons are good, because they can carry you along above the stressful plains, in the stillness and calm of the gloaming.
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Date: 2004-11-10 04:38 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-11-10 06:49 am (UTC)Take care of yourself!
Hugs and such.
Catherine
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Date: 2004-11-10 06:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-10 07:04 am (UTC)~is determined~
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Date: 2004-11-10 06:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-10 09:26 am (UTC)That is one big fibroid. I think you should get that out.
::Hugs:: I hope you're okay.
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Date: 2004-11-10 10:22 am (UTC)*hugs again*
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Date: 2004-11-11 06:14 am (UTC)Have some belated hugs from me and keep at the NHS.