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Sep. 7th, 2006 07:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Dolphin needs a prosthetic tail. I think that's way cool, and might check out the donation information. The phone number is in the article.
In other news, I came home from today's doctor's appointment with a diagnosis of PCOS and a prescription for Metformin. Which is exactly what I wanted, sort of. It's good to have an answer, and it's been evident for years that PCOS was the probable cause, but there's the process of getting used to taking the medication, and the side effects, and learning how to deal with taking meds four times a day. (I know there are other ways to take it, but for now, this is what the doctor wants me to do.) The upside, however is that the doctor said "Go off the pill. It's not suppressing your cyst much if you've had two ruptures in the last couple of months. You'll probably drop weight faster if you're off the pill, and have better response to the Metformin. If you get pregnant before I see you again in January, that's fine...I'd like it if you would wait til March, but if it happens before then, it's okay. You can use any other contraceptive method you want..condoms, rhythm method. You need to keep good track of your cycles, you may want to use an OPK [ovulation predictor kit] and if you start trying in March, and you don't have success in a few cycles, or you're not ovulating, we'll talk about adding other things like Clomid."
So, what this means is that we're going to decide if and when we're ready to try again for a baby. And there's a lot of stuff to deal with there. And it also means I'm likely to create a PCOS filter, so as not to bore most of you who aren't interested in what's going on with my ovaries.
It also means that I've been told that I will probably feel very sick for at least a month as I go on the new medication, and ramp the dose up to the level that the doctor wants me at.
In other news, I came home from today's doctor's appointment with a diagnosis of PCOS and a prescription for Metformin. Which is exactly what I wanted, sort of. It's good to have an answer, and it's been evident for years that PCOS was the probable cause, but there's the process of getting used to taking the medication, and the side effects, and learning how to deal with taking meds four times a day. (I know there are other ways to take it, but for now, this is what the doctor wants me to do.) The upside, however is that the doctor said "Go off the pill. It's not suppressing your cyst much if you've had two ruptures in the last couple of months. You'll probably drop weight faster if you're off the pill, and have better response to the Metformin. If you get pregnant before I see you again in January, that's fine...I'd like it if you would wait til March, but if it happens before then, it's okay. You can use any other contraceptive method you want..condoms, rhythm method. You need to keep good track of your cycles, you may want to use an OPK [ovulation predictor kit] and if you start trying in March, and you don't have success in a few cycles, or you're not ovulating, we'll talk about adding other things like Clomid."
So, what this means is that we're going to decide if and when we're ready to try again for a baby. And there's a lot of stuff to deal with there. And it also means I'm likely to create a PCOS filter, so as not to bore most of you who aren't interested in what's going on with my ovaries.
It also means that I've been told that I will probably feel very sick for at least a month as I go on the new medication, and ramp the dose up to the level that the doctor wants me at.
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Date: 2006-09-08 12:02 am (UTC)I've had various doctors suggest a PCOS diagnosis to me over the last 7-8 years. It hasn't made much of a difference to me because I've not yet tried to get pregnant, nor do I know if I ever will.
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Date: 2006-09-08 01:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-08 03:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-08 12:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-08 01:09 am (UTC)He'd like it if I waited til March. It's fine if it happens before then. If we "officially" start trying in March, and don't have success within a few months, and I've had detectable ovulation, then we'll add Clomid.
And I'll go fix that now.
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Date: 2006-09-08 12:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-08 12:57 am (UTC)Sounds like pretty decent news from the doc. :) I hope you're lucky w/o the clomid, etc!
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Date: 2006-09-08 01:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-08 01:18 am (UTC)i'm glad you have a dx, and a tx, and hope. good thoughts to you, your ovaries, and your adjustment to the metformin.
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Date: 2006-09-08 01:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-08 02:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-08 03:01 am (UTC)some people said a month of yuck...for me it was about 2 weeks. And I've heard from some folks that they didn't have any yuck. So good luck with that part!
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Date: 2006-09-08 03:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-08 03:49 am (UTC)It's hard to try again I think. I could have killed my mother-in-law when I was pregnant for Tatiana because she told everyone and I didn't want to just in case. It's so hard to un-tell them. I had to do that after my first miscarriage and didn't want to go there again.
I've dropped about 20 pounds in the last year. I don't think it's made any difference with my period issues.
Best of Luck. *hugs*
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Date: 2006-09-08 01:20 pm (UTC)You might find it interesting/helpful to do a medline search on "metformin pregnancy"
There's a particularly applicable abstract from a pediatrics journal in May 2006, in which the babies of women who took metformin throughout pregnancy and lactation are studied. There were no ill effects. I think it would be interesting to read the whole article.
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Date: 2006-09-08 04:08 pm (UTC)Thanks for the pointer. I know Yix would also be interested in it, since she called me after you and I got off the phone and we were talking about the same thing.
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Date: 2006-09-08 10:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-09 10:59 pm (UTC)http://stirrup-queens.blogspot.com/2006/07/metformin-glucophage-for-pcos.html