Let It Begin!!

**Writter's note**This is the one place I can speak openly and so, if medical terms make you giggle or shudder, this might not be the blog for you!

Well, we went to see our midwife today.  Yes, we saw a midwife.  This is the woman that delivered Colton and also took care of me while I was pregnant with Skyler. (Although we had to have an OBGYN deliver her.)  We went to her first because she knows me, she knows my story, my family, and she knows how badly I want more children.

Because I was diagnosed with PCOS by a doctor in Cedar Rapids (an hour away) we have to wait for my chart to be faxed to Waterloo before we can start on Metformin.  In the mean time, she started me on progesterone to get my cycle going normally again.  This I have to take once a day for 10 days each month for a year.

Also, she prescribed Prenate.  She said that 50% of women actually cannot break down folic acid. Prenate is a top of the line prenatal vitamin and is the only one that has methalayted folic acid.  This way, it will be easier for my body to break it down and obsorb it.  With the issues that Skyler had, I welcome any and all vitamins that I can get....especially folic acid.

Also, with the concern of Tim's father having taken clohmid in order for him and Tim's mother to have children, she also ordered a semenalysis.  I would have expected him to be weirded out or something, but instead he welcomed it and said, "Well, there's no use in getting everything fixed with your body and waiting if mine isn't working."  ((Just even more proof I have an absolutely amazing husband, who is all in! <3 ))

After explaining all of my symptoms and everything to her, she agreed that I definitely have PCOS and that it is pretty severe.  She said that she could refer me to a specialist and just go straight into the hard core fertility drugs but why take the risks of those drugs if we don't have to.  I have to say, I completely agree with her.  So, as soon as my chart is faxed to her she is going to call out a prescription for metformin.  She seems to think that the reason it did not work before is one of three things. Either, 1. because the doctor did not give me progesterone before hand, to help jump start everything or 2. it wasn't a high enough dosage or 3. metformin simply isn't going to work for me.  Regardless of what happened before, we're starting fresh and so we will try the metformin, at whatever dosage she decides, after looking at my lab results and such from CR.  After a few months if that is not working we will move on to clohmid and if that does not work she will refer me to a specialist.

All in all I was very happy about our appointment today and I am fully confident in our decision to start at step one.  I am not sure what the treatments are for men and I'll probably do some research on that in the next few days.  Speaking of research, I found out that our insurance policy has a $35k cap on fertility...that fact that it is even covered under our insurance makes me exstatic but that high of a cap just makes it even better!  :) 

So, there it is!  The best things in life are worth fighting for... so, let the fight begin!!