A New Day

I saw this beautiful sunrise while driving to my sister's house...it gave me hope.

When a good day becomes a great day in the wonderful world of infertility

So it goes, Robert is generally right about...almost everything! Just this morning we were discussing this recent cyst and how we hope we get results soon and blah, blah, blah. Well, I made the comment that I don't feel good about this at all and was expressing (pesimistically) that this probably wouldn't turn out good...blah, blah, blah. Well, as usual he is so encouraging and optimistic when I need it most =D He said that we always seem to have bumps along the way but with our experience we have yet to receive bad news, just potentially bad news. Right he is! The nurse just called and let me know that the fluid is consistant with cyst fluid. This is wonderful news! It is paying off to be patient, I guess. Assuming my hormone levels continue to cooperate, we will be overwhelmed with needles and meds in less than a month. Who gets excited about this junk, I mean really, who does that!?!?!

Drain Cyst, CHECK!

My appointment was at 7:15 am in the Birmingham office to drain the cyst and everything went well. The cyst was about the same circumference as a coke can, YIKES! The fluid was suppose to be clear, but was thick and greenish-yellow, not good. She gave some official name for it that neither Robert, nor myself can remember. But basically she suspects that it is a benign tumor growing that is stemming from inside my ovary. They will run some tests on the fluid to verify her theory and I should get results Monday or Tuesday on that. We are hopeful that it is a tumor like the pituitary gland, meaning it is not =D If it in fact is they will have to perform surgery after all by doing an incision in my ovary and removing the growth. They are not able to stimulate that ovary at all with medication until they find out the status of the growth. This is just one more thing to stress me out, kind of a bummer but at the same time I'm glad they are doing something to help the situation move along. This post probably sounds quite scattered when being read, Istill feel a bit loopy from the meds earlier, so I'll blame that...I'll update again when the results come in.

No Surgery =D

I had my "Baselines" done on Tuesday September, 7th (day 4) and the results are quite satisfying. My FSH is down from a 17.2 to a 12.4. What is the deal with my fluctuation here?!?! Regardless, it is lower now and I am satisfied...Also, my prolactin is down from a 30 to a 10, thanks to Bromocriptine Mesylate. I am taking 1.25 mg twice daily and it seems to be doing the trick. The reason for my high prolactin is that I have Hyperprolactinemia...sounds so official. The bad news is that the cyst is still alive and well, totally covering my ovary and invading my reproductive organs, RUDE! The good news is that contrary to what I have been prepared for by nurses, the el doctair is satisfied with simply draining the cyst...this works for me... She even said that tomorrow works and will be scheduled by my nurse...*sigh* Sooo assuming that we can in fact schedule this for tomorrow, I should be cyst free by the weekend! Only a hormonally challenged individual such as myself can get excited over something like this. This procedure is not surgical and is simply done in their office while I am sedated by medication given through an IV. I cannot express how excited I am to have this news today. Assuming all goes well and my hormones continue to cooperate we might be on our way to IVF next month... Finally some progress.
In other news, I'm pretty happy with this ol' journey we call life...quite the adventure! :D