Thursday, August 5, 2010

Dr. B*

I am posting a blog other than the "all about me in 30 days"! I went to my first appt. today with Dr. B and let me just tell you that I freaking love her. She was AMAZING!! A breath of fresh air if you will. She spent a good hour with me, looking over my history from the Fertility Institute, talking to me about options, success stories- which I love to hear, and she even took care of my yearly while I was there...
First off, we talked about my thyroid, because she noticed I was on Synthroid and Cytomel, and by the time we were done talking she was convinced that was the problem, and I "probably wouldn't even need her help getting pregnant". Exact words.
I told her that with the Synthroid, I had my period 3 times already, once each month since I have started taking it, and that was probably the first time in years I had it on my own without the help of provera. She was very concerned that the Fertility Institute did not test for my thyroid, because she said she had worked with them many times in the past and thinks that should have been the first thing they tested for. She thought maybe I overlooked the test, so we got online to FI's portal and I showed her all the bloodwork I had done, and sure enough, no thyroid panel. She even brought it up to another doctor who was waiting on another patient, because that doctor had done training at FI.. she could not believe it either. Lucky me, what a waste of time, and money I guess. I told her I had to stop going there because of the cost, and she assured me she could do all the same things, and wanted to start quickly back on clomid. I am fasting tomorrow morning (nothing after midnight after all.. I have Jason's Deli on the way right now to hold me over until tomorrow after the test) and doing bloodwork with her-both a full PCOS panel, and a cholesterol test also so that she can determine if I need to get started on any other type of medications that might complicate a pregnancy. Love her. Already thinking out of the box. I am just so happy with the way things went.

3 comments:

Aimee Hicks said...

Guess what I had done this morning? A full PCOS test! Good luck. I don't think I have any blood left :-)

The Durbin Blog said...

That is so crazy how we both went to new doctors this week and we both had that same test done!! Twins!!

Aimee said...

I know!!! I'm excited to know someone else is going through the same stuff...doesn't make it easier, just a resource to vent :) I wish Dr. B was in Beaumont!

 
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