CD2: Vacillating about cycling

AF came early again – a 25 day cycle. Since I had the whopper 6cm cyst late this last January, my cycles haven’t been normal. As the 6cm cyst withered on the right, a +2cm cyst on the left had developed. Today was my first ultrasound since visiting my fabulous U/S man in NJ. So, [...]

Posted on | April 8, 2011

Aha Moment!

I am pretty sure that I just figured out what was up with the weird AF that I just had: Many perimenopausal women have a high estrogen mid-cycle peak without ovulation. FSH then stimulates another follicle to make high estrogen levels that peak a week or so later. At that point the endometrium has become [...]

Posted on | February 8, 2011

Healing & Odd AF

I’ve been horrible posting with all the traveling I’ve done over the last 10 days. I’ll have to break this into segments: It’s been 10 days since they removed the cancer out in Palo Alto. Four days later I flew to Philadelphia to work a bit, and the stitches came out 6 days after surgery [...]

Posted on | February 6, 2011

Oh AF, Oh AF, Wherefore Art Thou Oh AF?

Off the progesterone pussy pops two days now. Where is my AF? Last night I lay in bed, anticipating my AF, and wondered if anyone ever had a BFN and then wound up knocked up … AF never arriving. I’m sure stranger things have happened, but it made me wonder about sharing that bottle of [...]

Posted on | November 23, 2010

CD1: The Bitch is Back

One day off of the progesterone p-pops and she’s back right on time. Egad. No rest for the weary. My poor nether regions are subjected to stress upon stress. My other half looks at the end of a cycle as the restoration of our physical relationship – while I feel like I just want to [...]

Posted on | June 2, 2010

Post-MS Anyone?

I am thrilled that AF arrived, but I found myself in a bit of an emotional slump today. I wracked my brain to figure out what was wrong with me and then it dawned on me that I hadn’t had many periods this year given all the IVF attempts we’d undergone. I’d forgotten, literally forgotten, [...]

Posted on | September 25, 2007