A breakthrough, perhaps.

I'm still processing all the craziness of Friday. I went to the RE in the morning for my 7dpo progesterone test (which I called and scheduled on my own, only to get a call back from the nurse asking why I was coming in). When the new nurse who did my blood draw called with my results in the afternoon, I knew right away when she said it that it was low (7.48), but she said nothing and since I was sitting at work I didn't want to get into it right there. So I doubled checked what is normal (>10 natural cycle, >15 medicated) and turned to the board to see what they thought I should do. The consensus was ask for a supplement next month, but I thought, why wait?

As I was running out of the office at 3pm to go to the city for my acu study consult, I made sure I had the info I needed to call from the car to get some sort of action from my RE. When I spoke to the nurse (SA, not the new one), she still seemed puzzled as to why I had come in for the test (she guessed to see if I had O'd, not because I actually thought and wanted to confirm that I have low P). Her exact words, "we didn't think you were trying this month." I don't know if I've ever been so angry. Was she kidding? I mentioned to her twice that our meeting with the RE next month is an IVF consult, so why does she think we aren't trying. It's really beyond me to understand her reasoning at all. She is the worst person in that office.

So after she acknowledged that if we were trying, she'd like to see it at 15, I asked if I should expect a call from the Dr. on what we are going to do, or if she already had or what. She only then agreed to try to get a hold of the Dr. to see what she wanted to do this cycle. Within a few minutes, she called back and left a msg. that the Dr. wanted me to start Crinone 8% that night and then to continue every morning (until when, TBD) and she had already called it in to our local fertility pharmacy. This is the fastest, most proactive thing that has come out of this office, and they are the good RE.

(Crinone, my new best friend)

Then when I finally made it to the wellness clinic for the acu study consult, I got to rehash my entire history with the dr. (who I had spoken to on the phone and had my doubts about, but who was very nice). She had to stop me several times as she was a bit overwhelmed with what I was telling her (which should probably worry me). It's so old hat to me, I could recite it all in my sleep. She also maintains that I am "out of balance" and fortunately I was able to share with her my newly discovered hormonal issue.

She is still interviewing candidates for the study (so not in the clear yet), but she seemed very positive. I should hear in the next two weeks. Sadly, she did tell me that my 4+ mos. of weekly acu sessions likely were not really helping me beyond making me feel better for a bit after each one, as infertility needs to be treated with a minimum of two treatments a week to actually have any benefit. So like other recent discoveries, this made me at first very mad (how many thousands would I spend at the other clinic before she upped my regimen?), but then it made me happy that now I knew better than I had before.

Thanks to my DH, I got my Crinone before the pharmacy closed and now I just trying to feel out the side effects. So far, constipation, hot flashes, general not so great feeling, but somehow I feel fabulous that we might be closer to an answer. I'm trying not to think of the fact that we could/should have found this out a YEAR ago. I'm due on Friday and I'm not holding out for a miracle, but besides making my month/year, it would certainly make our weekend at my nephew's baptism with all the family much more palatable.