My journey with infertility, continued

These blogs concerning infertility will have a lot of TMI, I want others to not feel alone and to now that these things can be talked about.

Continued.........

After the fourth month of chlomid it was decided that I go see an RE (reproductive endocrinologist). I called to make an appointment discussed my history, and it was decided that I did not need to get a HSG test, and just some ultra sounds and follow up blood work. 

While I was waiting to get into the RE, I had just finished my fourth round of chlomid prior to that, I have an unexplainable pain near my lower abdomen on my right side.  I am standing in the kitchen at work when the pain hits me and I drop to the floor.  I remember one of my co-workers asking if she needed to call 911.  This pain was bad! Remember I have been through child birth once, this pain was very, very bad.  From a scale from 1-10 it was a 20, labor was a 6 or 7. I rest in my office chair, and give Matt a call to let him know what was going on. By the time I was off work it was a mild pain, so I stopped by target on the way home.  I walked to the back of the store and stopped, called Matt and told him the pain was back and I didn't know how I was going to make it back to the front of the store. Needless to say I figured something out and headed home to lay down. The next morning I call my OBGYN's office and they get me in right away.  They did an exam, I told me to come back the next day for an ultra sound, telling me nothing before i left. I go back the next morning and found out I had a cyst in my ovary rupture, and then filled up with blood.  OUCH!!  What does this mean??? Not sure so I called the RE's office and they got the information from the ultra sound.

I go to my RE appointment the next week with my mom.  It was just an evaluation so we thought we should save the time for Matt's work for when we would really need it. I got an ultra sound at the RE's office she found the cyst.  I said I can wait, I want to feel better before I start any other drugs.  The RE does an exam.  Then we go into his office.  He tells me I need to go on the pill to shrink the cyst, this works 9 out of 10 times.  Because of the rupture I have to get an HSG on the 3rd to 5th day of my period. I was bummed about all of this because I heard the test was painful. I also had to get blood work for a pregnancy test.  Of coarse it was negative. 

I prepped for my HSG test.  I went to the hospital, I felt like I waited an eternity for them to call me back.  I lay there on the cold table as the doctor inserts a catheter to inject dye into my uterus. As the dye filled my uterus I watched the screen as  the dye fills up my uterus and spills into my body.  All is clear no blockage or damage from the cyst.  Now I have to start my period again call the office and proceed. 

The next entry will be my journey with all the infertility drugs, ultra sounds, etc...

To be continued.....