Sunday, January 17, 2010

3rd donation update

so the intended parents have had me 'on hold' forever. after i cleared my medical screening, the fertility doctor put me on birth control pills so i'd be all ready for when the surrogate started her period. things haven't gone as planned. there was some sort of issue with the surrogate's legal clearance, and meanwhile, for 5 months i'd been buying these $60/month pills waiting to get a phone call. and it sucks because im' not even supposed to be using the pills for birth control. so i feel like i'm just obediently wasting them.

i filled out reimbursement forms for the pills. i'm going to go ahead and mail them in. theres no reason to wait until after the retrieval to mail them out. especially because there has been such a large wait to get this thing started

i did get that phone call a couple weeks ago. the doctor's office called after i finished a pill pack, they wanted to know when my period starts so that they could make up a calendar for my meds. yaaay! finally!
but Femcon fe birth control pils have a few side effects, one of them is a missed or wussy period. mine over the months of taking the pill had gradually stopped. i still get the sensations before period time, but it has dwindled down to virtually no blood flow. so the nurses had me go get an estradiol level test to make sure i was where i was supposed to be in my cycle for the donation calendar. the first estradiol level test made the nurses tell me to get a second estradiol test in a week. so i did the second one and from the 2 tests they could tell that i wouldn't have a period for another 2 weeks.
i know that after the 2nd donation i was keeping track of my natural cycle, and that it had gotten longer. to 35 and 40 days. so i wonder if the birth control pills didn't work to keep my cycle regular or what happened. Now i'm under strict orders not to take any more pills, and i'm supposed to wait for a full period and call them when that happens. i had some spinnbarkeit yesterday and today, which leads me to believe that i'm naturally ovulating now and wont have the period for ANOTHER 2 weeks...

i was really hoping to get this donation done before my work picked up during the spring