I was so scared to go to the appointment because I just knew that they were going to tell me bad news. So I didn't sleep very good Thursday night, and my stomach was in knots. I really didn't want to go alone, but my husband was working out of state that day, so I had no choice. About 1/2 hour before I had to leave, my cousin, Becky, got ahold of me and said that she would go with me!!! So I went and picked her and her 15 month old son, Marcus, up and we went. We got there around 9:45 am and I filled out the necessary paperwork. I was called back around 10:15 and was so nervous. They checked my height, weighed me and checked my blood pressure and then they put me in the exam room. I sat there for what seemed like forever, but it was really only like 10 mins. Anyway, Dr. Bowers came in and into the room and introduced himself and asked me what was going on. I told him about the fertility treatments that I had undergone and about my PCOS. My cousin brought up the fact that her old doctor put her on birth control for 3 months to regulate her periods and then put her on Chlomid and she got pregnant pretty fast. Dr. Bowers said that the birth control must have triggered something in her body, but that it is not a cure for irregular periods. He said that if I am trying to get pregnant, then he does not want to put me on birth control. Instead, he wants me to start taking Folic Acid everyday. He told me that I don't have to have a period every month, but I need to at least have one every 3 months. So if by November 16, 2010 or a few days after, I have not started, then I need to call him and we will talk about medication to help jump start my periods. He told me to keep tracking my basal temperature like I have been doing to make sure that I am ovulating.
He then left the room for me to get ready for the annual exam. He came back in, performed the exam and told me that everything looked good. He then felt around to see if he could feel any masses that could be a cysts or tumor, and found none. That was good news. He told me to get dressed, and that they would do my ultrasound at the front. So I got dressed and went to the front. There was going to be a little bit of a wait, and Marcus was getting cranky. By this time, it was 11:25. So we scheduled the ultrasound for 1:30pm and decided to go run a few errands and get lunch.
When we got back to the doctor's office, my nerves were getting the best of me. I was so scared for what I was going to find out now. I figured, I got good news this morning so now here comes the bad news. Anyways, I am so use to seeing ovaries that have cysts all over them, so when she was doing the ultrasound and my ovaries came up on the screen, I had no idea what they were. She said that those are my ovaries, and that there are absolutely NO cycsts on either one of them. I was really confused. How could that be? I have PCOS, polycystic ovaries, so there is no way that there are no cysts on my ovaries. I said, really?!?! She said yeah, there is nothing there!! She also checked my uterus and it was perfect also. Which is also strange, because when I was going thru the fertility treatments, I was told that my uterine walls were thin, so I was placed on suppositories to help thicken it.
She told me that everything looked good and that Dr. Bowers would look at the ultrasound pictures, and if he saw anything disturbing, he would call me, but don't be expected a phone call, because everything looked perfect. She said that it appears that your PCOS is going away!!!!
I could not keep the grin off of my face. Did she really just say that my PCOS is going away?? Am I really going to be able to get pregnant easier than I thought?!?!? I could not beleive my ears or my eyes. So after all the nervousnous and the not sleeping, everything was perfect!!!!
Now we are going to get busy!!
Until next time....
Shawna
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