Treatment Plan

I know I haven't been up to date with my health conditions and fertility treatment. Well, for round 3 of clomid was a no and along with round 4. Here I am about to start round 5 and I have a feeling that it won't work either. Well, let's just say I can tell you it's not working for me. Every since I started the Metformin again I can't sleep hardly at all...I have no energy to do anything. As for the Provera (which induces my period) has made very period since on it 10 times worst. I always get really bad back pain...like when you get before a miscarriage and most days it won't go away until my period stops. As far as I know the Clomid is working but side effects. I get heat flashes, headaches and more things. I am tired of medicine and how they only take care of symptoms instead of the actually problem and always making me sick in someway.

So I have decided to go back to Dr. Wheeler and let her know that I just want to start over. I want to go back to the beginning of my beginning treatment plan that I had gotten pregnant on. Well, most of it. I don't want to be on any medicine anymore unless it is a huge need. I have already been working on my eating habits. I am been lacking in the department of exercising due to the fact that I have a lot of stress on me right now and we don't really have the money to do what I was doing.

I also want to try out natural progesterone cream...I think that my body isn't producing enough of progesterone (it is the hormone that helps you have your period, release your egg during ovulation and maintain pregnancy). I looked up about low progesterone and it symptoms and I have about 3/4 of what the list had to say. It is also common that after you get pregnant and have the child hormones get better and fix themselves. In a way it will be annoying that this is all I have to do. So here is what I want or need to do for the next two to three months.

1. I have an appointment with Dr. Wheeler on the 4th. She wants to talk about what the specialist has decided to do and I want to do to talk her about my decision. I will probably also ask for a progesterone test to be done. I want to know it that is the cause of everything because it will be easier to fix instead of all these things that I have been doing. Along with trying the NPC (natural progesterone cream), I want to see if there is anything else I can do to help the progesterone levels. I will also talk to her about how I feel about Dr. Leavitt.

2. I do not think I will be going back to Dr. Leavitt. He's very much into prescribing medicine for a problem instead for figuring out what is the problem. Also he said that if the clomid doesn't work that he will probably put me on a pill that helps cancer patients....I don't have cancer. I did not like that at all. I know he is a great guy and doctor but right now I need to know what is causing all these problems and to fix it so I don't have anymore miscarriages (to this date, we don't know if there as been more than the one we know about).

3. If Logan gets a job out at NRF, I will probably go see Amanda's doctor because she is a specialist in hormonal therapy (natural). Amanda has gotten so health from having her with her problem. And I am willing to go see her. I would actually go see her now but she doesn't take insurance and Logan and I do not have enough money to pay for everything that it will cost but I am going to go no matter what happens.

4. Again, if Logan gets the job, I want to do a juicing cleanse and then eat raw food for 21 days. In doing this I am hoping to jump start my body's system naturally and not cause it so much pain anymore. I am hoping that Logan will also do this with me because it's hard to do something like this alone plus it will be great for his health too. If dad is still living with us maybe I can talk him in doing it too. Who knows. I am actually get lucky.

5. For some miracle, if I get pregnant on medicine that I am on now or the NPC than that's great but I will be seeing Amanda's doctor. I am tried of being sick and not being able to control it either.

So pretty much I will eat healthy like I have been, start exercising again no matter what and come off the medicine. I just hope this works because I am going to be an aunt again but I was hoping to have a child before them...and no, it's not Amanda. I am just going to work on getting healthy like I did before. The best part of this all is that Logan is still willing to help and listen to me. He's the best guy friend and husband I will ever have.

2nd Round

I am now getting ready for the second round of clomid. I have just finished the Provera (which wasn't as bad this time as last time) a few days ago. I still had sometimes where I couldn't control my emotions but I think I am getting a hang on controlling them better. I thought it was going to be just as bad as last time but I lucked out.

I will be starting the clomid here soon in a few days. I hope the 2nd round of clomid will do the trick so I don't have to worry about going to a specialist...but I have a feeling that I will be going anyways. I guess it just one of the things that I will have to do to have kids.

Anyways, in 3 weeks I go in for the blood testing. I will not lie...I am very worry. I don't really want my body getting worst. I've been working hard for 3 years to make it healthier and I just beginning to understand it too along with nutrition too.

Round 1: Finished Clomid and Side-effects

Yesterday I finished my first round of clomid. I now have to wait even longer to see if it worked. I'm waiting on a call from my doctor about a question but besides that everything is going good. I did have some side-effects from it. Not many tho. I was surprised. I thought I would have a lot more just because I don't really ovulate all that much. Here are the days or clomid and it's side-effect:

Day one: I got really tired to the point of wanting to sleep all day long. I also got a really bad headache with hardness to see sometimes. I didn't get the moodiness that  a lot of people complain about. I also had lots of heat flashes...and I mean lots. I was drinking so much water!


Day two: I was still really tired and got heat flashes again...about the same as day one. I had a headache here and there but wasn't has bad as day one.

Day three: By this point, I started to feel less tired and no headaches. I did get lots of heat flashes.

Day four: Lots of heat flashes again. Whenever I got stressed out I would be a little moody....especially towards the end of the day.

Day five: Again...heat flashes...maybe even more than the other days. Again lots of water. I was more moody today due to the fact that I was stressed and had a lot of things to get done.

Now that I am off it, I don't seem so moody...but tired again. I still get lots of heat flashes. I still can't believe that there is still lots of days before I know if it has helped out not. All wait...I guess it's a good thing that I started this around the holidays so they make me busy so it's harder to sstressed out about it.

Round 1: The Waiting Game

So...I just finish my last pill for the provera. I now have to wait for my period...anywhere from 5 to 10 days. I hate this part. Although I did spot on my 8th day of the pill (sorry for tmi). I don't know what that means but I guess it could be a good sign. I will have to wait and see.

Now, after waiting I than have to go clomid. I have heard of stories where you can take the clomid on either 3cd - 7cd or 5cd - 9cd. I guess the first one makes it so that you are more likely to release a few more eggs but the eggs themselves may not be top condition. Meanwhile, while taking it on 5cd - 9cd makes it so you release less eggs but are more mature and healthier. I think either way would of been fine. I just want to see if this is what we needed to do this whole time. And with the new diet...I hope that helps out too. But maybe the next time we have kids I won't have to get help due to it.