Unfortunately this has nothing to do with crazy outdoor sex, or animalistic positions or over-grown body hair in the slightest. It would be so much more pleasant if that was all we had to worry about these days.
The first year of no period and crazy hormonal crap I spent gooogling ‘ovulation regulation’ and PCOS and hormones and ‘fix me I’m broken’. For a while I started tracking things on my own based on Dr. Google. I was pretty well versed in what was going on once we went to a fertility doctor to see if we could learn more and hopefully fix the situation.
She didn’t even want to figure out what was wrong and tried to put me on Clomid immediately. She also tried to prescribe Metformen because my blood tests pointed to PCOS even though my glucose and insulin levels were fine. I ‘held out’ for about 8 months before finally trying Clomid back in the middle of this year. The first two months the dose was too low. The third month the shortness of breath kicked in and she kept telling me that the things that were happening to my body weren’t really happening. So I stopped – both Clomid and her.
I’ve decided I can’t deal with the traditional stuff anymore for now and that whole shortness of breath, that pretty much sealed the deal. So the other day we went to our first appointment at a natural fertility centre. Now my view is if I have to go through this, you’re in it with me Mr. W. The Dev is being supportive, but is not particularly happy about it.
The program is demanding. Massive diet changes to begin with. The basic explanation is stop eating crap. The slightly longer version is eat good stuff, all good stuff, all organic, and oh right, no sugar and not too much meat or dairy, carbs stay as long as they are whole grain – thank goodness. But that’s not all, and what is getting to him most is the enormous amounts of supplements, a whole shitload of tests, no trying for 3-4 months – so either condoms or abstinence – blah, oh and a crap load of money.
I think they take the money and grind it up into the supplements, they may as well. We’ve got all our eggs in one basket if you will. Here’s hoping something works.