Almost halfway through

Tonight will mark Provera pill #4.  I stayed home sick yesterday after spending a good portion of the morning throwing up.  My body does not do well with new medications and the Provera has really made me feel like crap.  I am really ready for the bleeding to stop so we can move forward with the biopsy.  It has been reduced to brown spotting so far, but still prevalent enough that I have to wear a pad.

I think I'll be skipping the "before" picture for our month of strict paleo and exercise at this point.  In the first week alone I lost 5 lbs which had me really happy.  Here are my weight and measurements as of June 8th:

Weight: 156.9 lbs
Neck: 14 inches  
Bicep: 12 inches
Forearm: 10.5 inches
Chest: 40 inches
Waist: 31.5 inches
Hips: 41.5 inches
Thigh: 23.5 inches
Calf: 15 inches

I will track my weight every Saturday, but will not redo any measurements until July 6th.  We leave for St. Lucia in less than a month, I really need to get my rear in gear.

One or the other

Yesterday sucked.

After getting to work I had a huge project dumped on my desk.  It's extremely tedious and mind numbing and will probably take at least a week to finish.  Then lunch takes about two hours to be delivered.  Already at the point where my stomach is about to eat itself, I ripped open the cover and almost cried.  Even though the instruction of 'no shrimp' was given three times, there sat a few huge pieces of smelly shrimp on top of my chicken picadinho.  I could barely stomach it, everything tasted like shrimp.  We will never be ordering from them again.

We left work a little early so I could get my blood drawn.  Seeing the craptastic day I was having, Dave made reservations at our favorite restaurant.  Dinner was amazing and we witnessed a stunning example of bad parenting mixed with awesome restaurant owners.  Firstly, it's a very small restaurant.  A couple walks in with their young son and he immediately starts running around the tables as the parents stand near the door conversing.  The owner, B, asks them to attend to their child.  They don't move a muscle and the kid goes running towards the counter to look at the fish tank.  Chef D comes out and again asks the parents to take care of their child, stating children are not allowed to run around unsupervised in the restaurant.  Finally the father goes over to the little boy, who is banging on the fish tank yelling "MY FISHY!", and grabs him.  Thankfully they decided to leave.  It was a very nice night and we passed out soon after getting home.

Today, as I continued to work on the doom project, I got a call back from one of the nurses.  My blood work came back and there were two options.  Well maybe not options.  If my bleeding, which is still going strong, has ended by tomorrow morning then I will call Dr. S to schedule the biopsy.  If I am stil bleeding then I will start Provera on Saturday night for seven days.  Once the bleeding stops we'll revisit the biopsy.  So I have the Provera and a bottle of Motrin IB, one of them will be opened in the next few days.

Overwhelmed

So remember that light bleeding that started on Sunday?  It died down and I was feeling confident that everything would go according to plan.  Think again Wolf.  By Monday evening the dam had broken and I started a medium flow.

Tuesday morning I called Dr. S.  He called me back later in the day and I told him about the bleeding.  He wanted me to come in for the appointment anyway, at the very least he could do an u/s and wanted to draw blood to check my hormones.  Feeling frustrated, I decided to let it all out by starting a new workout routine.  It's the Nerd Fitness Beginner Body Weight Workout.  Here's the rundown:

• 5 minute warm up
• 20 body weight squats
• 10 push ups
• 20 lunges
• 10 dumbbell rows (I'm using 5lb weights to start, hope to move up to the 12lbers soon)
• 15 second plank
• 30 jumping jacks
• Repeat a 2nd time
• Repeat a 3rd time if you can
• Stretch it out

I made it halfway through the second set before I had to stop.  Dave was very amused by my legs turning to jelly.  It felt great to be working out again, even though my quads are incredibly sore today.  The plan is to do that every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.  For Monday, Wednesday, Friday I would like to try the Nerd Fitness Interval Training.  Sunday will be a rest/walking day.

I really need to remember to take a before picture and measurements....

Anyway, I went in for my appointment this morning.  The nurse could not catch a vein, so I drank some water and we would try again after the u/s.  Dr. S did the u/s and my lining was at 13mm.  He feels it could be a lot of breakthrough bleeding due to my annovulatory cycles.  If my b/w comes back with low estrogen and progesterone, he will put me on BCPs for a bit to try and thin the lining out.  Once my bleeding stops he'll get me in within 24-48 hours for the biopsy.

The nurse had no luck trying to draw blood.  She felt bad and was hesitant to stick my hand.  Instead they wrote up the b/w and I made an appointment at LabCorp for this afternoon.  They should have the results within a day so we'll move forward from there.

Biopsy rescheduled

15 days

I steadily bled for 15 days.

When it finally stopped I called Dr. S and we rescheduled my biopsy for this coming Wednesday.  At this point I just want it over with.  I am sick and tired of my troll body making my life miserable.  Dr. S said to call if I started bleeding again on Monday or Tuesday.  My first thought was if that happened I would need a long vacation in a small padded room.

Sunday afternoon I passed three clots and had a light, but steady red flow.  

Whiskey.  Tango.  Foxtrot.

I didn't know if I should laugh or cry.  Instead I ate the last of my chocolate peanut butter ice cream for dinner and watched Numbers with Dave.  It had turned brown by this morning, but if the red picks up again I will call Dr. S to discuss options.  

In an effort to keep both my sanity and try to shed the 25lbs I've gained since miscarrying last year, Dave and I decided to give another Whole 30 a try.  Things have quieted down at work, somewhat, and I'd rather not look like a beached whale on our vacation in St. Lucia.  Currently I weigh in at 160lbs, the most I have ever weighed.  My overall goal is to slim down and gain muscle, especially in my upper body.  I would like to be down in the 130 range for weight, but will focus more on measurements than the number on the scale.  We'll take our 'before' pictures tonight and do measurements, I will post those tomorrow.

Biopsy postponed

"You're still bleeding?"

The way Dr. S said those words brought all of my psyched up confidence down with a crash.  He was very upset and apologetic.  Apparently someone was supposed to check in with me to make sure my bleeding had stopped.  I'm guessing they just assumed my period would be done by CD9.  Not so much friends, my uterus is often trying to set world records for longest period.  

Not wanting to risk infection and/or only getting blood instead of a tissue sample Dr. S postponed the biopsy.  I am to call him directly when my period ends and he'll set up my appointment, even if it needs to be on the weekend.  Dave and I are going away for the weekend so the biopsy will likely be sometime late next week.  

The good news is Dr. S is very anxious to get my treatment rolling.  I am not going to delude myself into thinking we'll get a cycle in before our trip to St. Lucia.  The timing would have to be magical and who knows what my biopsy results will show.  A D&C is probably going to be involved to clean everything. 

My plan is to throw all of my obsessive tendencies towards getting fit and healthy for our trip.  We're going to try another Whole 30 in June and I hope to lose a good chunk of the flab that has taken up residence in my mid-section.  Toning up my arms and thighs would be nice too. 

Well fuck...

Went in for my baseline ultrasound this morning.  If everything looked good then I would start Clomid.  If my lining was still too thick then it was biopsy time.

I go in for an endometrial biopsy next Wednesday morning.

Easing back in

I apologize for the long hiatus.  Work has been a nightmare the past couple weeks.  Our new system was successfully launched, but there has been a ton of clean up, hand holding, and a mini crisis here and there.  Every time I have a moment to check in with 3T or possibly start a blog post something else pops up.  This will be a short update, but I am expecting a call from Dr. S sometime today so I will post again either later today or tomorrow.

My prolactin is down to a 4 as of the beginning of this month.  Our two natural cycles were a complete bust with me not ovulating at all.  I spotted for about a week before my period started Tuesday evening.  Obviously my ovaries did not get the message about the lowered prolactin.  Called the office to report the start of my period.  Dr. S is back in the office today and the nurse needed to discuss the plan with him.  If he wants baseline testing for this cycle I will go in tomorrow on CD4.  I don't have high hopes for starting any treatment this cycle, but we'll see what Dr. S thinks.