New Doctor = New Bad News

So I went to a new doctor on the 6th of June. She is amazing. I have only seen her once but she has answered every question I have ever had about PCOS, (even though the best way to learn about it is self education.) She is very highly experienced with treating and controlling PCOS and everything that comes with it. She is starting a long process of cleaning up my last infertility specialist's mess. He had me on Clomid, as I am sure you are aware if you have read previous posts. He had me on a low dose at first, but for every month that the Clomid did not work the following month he would up my dose by 50mg. Which may be the norm for infertility, but to be on clomid while having PCOS is dangerous, especially if you are totally un-monitored, like I was. I had no ultrasounds, follicle scans, blood work, nothing. Until the last cycle, and then I had 1 set of the 7dpo labs and they came back awful.. (as mentioned in previous post.) He also never monitored my hormones, or PCOS. The only time I had ultrasounds was a couple times that I went into the ER for large cysts. Which, I know the hormones don't have to be monitored too much, but it has been over a year since I have had mine checked, even after requesting for them to be drawn. So, eventually I gave up on this doctor ever listening to my questions, or concerns. So I was recommended by a friend to see the doctor that I see now, I see the NP of the doctor, actually. She is great. She is doing a full hormone work up on CD3, which I have to start the 10 days of provera to get to that point, of course. Then we will go from there, depending on what the blood work shows. She said to expect to be put on birth control for at least 4-6 months to give my ovaries a rest and get the cysts under control. I am pretty bummed about that. I also have started on a diabetic diet, and am still on the same dose of Metformin ER. I am extremely frustrated with the last doctor, I feel like he cheated me of a year of time in which I could have actually treated the PCOS, instead of solely the infertility. I have wasted so much time and a lot of money. He is seriously a great infertility doctor, but not so great with the PCOS. I loved him at the beginning, he had me on an agressive course of meds to fix the infertility and to end up pregnant... but it didn't take me long to realize that while doing that, the PCOS was spiraling out of control. I am hoping the blood work comes back good enough to not have to be on birth control for long, if at all... but I know I can't reasonably expect for that to happen, because it never ends up working that way. I am just sad and frustrated. I feel so defeated.

To go along with the last post........

Just to let everyone know. I have not forgotten about this blog. I just have not had anything new occur so far. I am in the process of seeing a new group of doctors who will hopefully check everything out a lot better than the last doctor has. I don't have anything new with the PCOS, I don't have anything new with TTC. We are kind of up in the air right now as far as all of that goes. I will update again after my doctor appt and let everyone know what's up! :) Stayyyy Tuuuneddd. :)

New Youtube Blog!

Hellooooo everyone I just wanted to post and let everyone who comes across this or is subscribed to this, know that I have started a YouTube channel and blog to go along with this blog since there are so many platforms of social media I figured I needed to branch out a little more. I get a lot of traffic on this page which is amazing, thank you all! I am hoping to have the same luck on my YouTube channel. The link will be attached. Please stop by, subscribe, even if you don't blog! Thank you all. :)