Fibroid Hell

Last Friday I did an U/s with Dr. R. He did a transverse scan and noticed something odd. He said that I either had a tumor in my uterus or that my lining was growing “funny”. I went in for my SHG yesterday and, as suspected, Dr. R found a 2cm fibroid in my uterine [...]

Posted on | May 6, 2011

Detachment

I have six BCPs remaining after this morning’s dose, which means that I’ll be starting lupron within the next six days. A bit nerve wracking because not only is this cycle not yet approved by my insurance, but I don’t even have my lupron ordered!! The IVF protocol was sent over to Dr. R’s office [...]

Posted on | April 23, 2011

Worrying

I’m feeling rather anxious about this Dr. B and what he is doing for the $1250 that I paid him last week. He’s vacillated on a number of details so far: Changed his mind about billing my insurance as “out of network” and not billing me for any outstanding balance. Added in a $1250 monitoring [...]

Posted on | April 19, 2011

Here’s a Kiss Off to the "Just Relax and You’ll Get Pregnant" Crap

Stress causes infertility “Stress doesn’t cause infertility,” says Dr. Carol Redmond of the LifeQuest Centre for Reproductive Medicine in Toronto, “but infertility sure can cause stress. What bothers me most when people say ‘Just relax — it will happen’ is that it blames the victim and implies the sort of control over our fertility that [...]

Posted on | May 29, 2010