Tuesday, June 17, 2014

A Year & a Half Later


So, we’ve been married now for over a year at this point- the best year of my life, by the way!  Not actively “trying” to get pregnant, but not necessarily preventing it because we both knew from the beginning we wanted a few little ones in our lives.  But, after a year and a half, we start to wonder what’s going on.  I go to my local OB and see the nurse practitioner that day and she says “Well, your pap is normal, so I’m sure you just have PCOS.”  Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome.  She gives me some pamphlets, without doing any type of tests for this diagnosis, and tells me we just need to be patient and keep trying and sometimes it just takes longer.
 
After going home and researching PCOS, I knew immediately that wasn’t what was wrong with me.  When people say “listen to your body”, you really should listen to your body.  I knew this wasn’t the issue.  So I took it upon myself and scheduled an appointment with an endocrinologist to do blood work to confirm my suspicions.  Sure enough, my hormone levels were fine, and they couldn’t detect anything wrong.  Not PCOS.  This endocrinologist recommended we seek a second opinion from an OBGYN or specialist, maybe in a larger city.  So after a recommendation, I began seeing Dr. Heckman, an OBGYN in Frisco.

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