It has been a long time since I have given a proper update so here we go! In March I went to go see my gynecologist for my yearly exam. Everything with that exam went great. With my track record of irregular cycles my doctor ordered a few different panels of blood work, a biopsy of my uterine lining, and a vaginal ultrasound.
My blood work came back completely normal which makes PCOS out of the question. The biopsy, which in my opinion was very uncomfortable came back normal and I felt good to hear that I apparently ovulated on my own. The doctor suspects I am not ovulating very frequently though. The ultrasound results were very disappointing for me but at the same time it was a relief to hear that they finally found something wrong with me and all of this trouble wasn't just in my head. They found that my left ovary was almost twice the size of my right ovary and it had a "complex cyst" the size of my left ovary,which turned out to be a benign corpus luteum cyst. The cyst according to my doctor was not going to go away on it's own so I had to go under the knife.
The doctor ordered me to abstain or use condoms to avoid getting pregnant before the surgery, I did that and awaited the month long time period before my surgery was scheduled.
I went in to the hospital in the morning, checked myself in and after some waiting I headed back to the pre-op room with my husband, mom and sister in tow. After everything was all squared away I got wheeled back to the operating room. Soon I heard the anesthesiologist telling me she was going to be putting the knock out medicine in my IV since I had told her I HATE the smell of the gas. Besides being so cold my teeth were chattering that is all I remember. The doctor did one incision through my belly button. The surgery lasted an hour and a half. I remember waking up in the recovery room panicked because I feared that the doctor would have to take my ovary out because the cyst caused too much damage. After some reassurance from my nurse who showed me the picture of my pink insides where my ovary and cyst were I finally stopped crying and calmed down long enough to fall back asleep until they started nudging me to wake up so they could take me back to the post-op room to meet my family. I felt like my nursed were trying to literally shove me out of bed. I know my body and I know how it reacts to surgery. I was not ready to get out of bed. They demanded that I get out of bed to try to urinate so I could go home. I felt nauseous and just needed to lie down. I finally appeased them and was able to painfully urinate and collapse back into the wheel chair. At this point the pain from the surgery was terrible! I felt every bump, every turn and felt nauseous the whole way. I knew I wasn't ready to be moving around but after that long ride, which really wasn't more than seven minutes long but sure felt longer, all I wanted was to be home in my own bed.
Once I got to my bed and sat down I knew I was going to get sick. I made a quick grab for the closest bucket/bowl/cup I could find and it turned out to be a painters trim tray. Thank goodness I made it in there that would have been a terrible mess!
For the next several days I could hardly turn myself over in bed let alone get out of bed to use the bathroom. I spent my time sleeping since the pain medicine made me sleepy 20 minutes after taking it.The doctor told me that I should be able to resume "normal" activity after a day or so... ha yeah right I was so tired, I hurt constantly, I had no energy and felt nauseous just walking across my house.
As of right now I am almost three weeks post-op and I am still sore at the incision site. My doctor gave me the go-ahead one week and one day after surgery to go back to "normal" activities which includes intercourse. I am not very confident that we managed to get pregnant during that cycle but I took my 10mg once a day for ten days of Provera and it is going on three days after the last dose. Last time I took Provera I started my new cycle the next day after the last dose, which made my cycle only 25 days long. I have VERY sore breasts and I am very tired. I think I ovulate in my 20's of my cycle.
I am waiting for AF to show up so we can start our first Clomid cycle but I would be perfectly happy with a positive pregnancy test. I got a little excited and did a due date calculator and my due date would be February 14, 2012 Valentines Day! How exciting would that be?!?! I will be testing tomorrow and again on Sunday. Since my exhaustion is getting the better of me I do believe I have to stop this post for now. Have a good night everyone!
