First ultrasound

is scheduled for Thursday May 5th.  If everything looks great we will probably come out with our pregnancy.  The only reason we plan too is because we have very large families.  We're afraid people will find out (no matter if we say "please don't say anything") and we want to be the ones sharing the news! That's the fun part right!?!  Soooo, just a couple more days and we get to see our little bean.  We are beyond excited. 

I forgot to update my 3rd round of bloodwork.  The HCG was 803 and the progesterone was 19 something.  Then last week I had my 4th round of bloodwork.  The HCG was 7374 and my progesterone was 16 something....yup it went down.  Anything above 15 is "good" and is what the dr's are looking for.  It made me nervous to see it dropping and it being around the cut off line so they told me I can get put on progesterone suppositories.  I immediately agreed and went to get my prescription the next day.  They are little wax capsules and they look like torpedoes lol.  You insert them vaginally and its supposed to help the baby survive until the placenta takes over in the 10-12 week range.  I've had no side effects from them other than i've been getting a full nights sleep.  A side effect is drowsiness (which is why you are supposed to take them 30 minutes before bed time) and I guess since I take it before bed time it makes me sleep the whole night.  I'm not complaining.  :) Although, I do wake up with a full bladder.  I'm sure these full nights of sleep aren't going to last long so I'm not going to celebrate too soon. 

And the results are in...

I called the patient line because I hadn't heard from the Dr's office about Thursday's blood work.  To my surprise I heard "You have 1 new message."  I shot up in bed and turned the tv down.  Turns out the meds leveled out my DHEA and the results are "we're very happy with your levels-please call us for an appointment for your next steps."  I'm super excited but very cautious at the same time.  I'm ready to hit the ground running on this-too bad im slowly crawling with a weight attached to my legs. :( 

How it began...

I was never "regular" growing up.  I took it as I was very into athletics and supposably that was known to make you irregular.  Fast forward to the months before marriage and Edgar and I abstained thinking it was just "that easy" to get pregnant.  We didn't want an "oops" baby before the wedding.  So after the wedding we decided to give it a shot.  Man we were in for a rude awakening.  I had a cycle of 130+ days.  I went to the Dr to figure out how to make my period come.  She gave me meds to jumpstart my period.  I also got about 8 tubes of blood taken and my first ever pap smear!  Talk about being overwhelmed.
Those test results came back with my prolactin hormone coming up high.  This hormone is what you get when you become pregnant which my dr thought this was causing my body to think I was pregnant which is why I wasn't having a normal period.  She gave me meds to try to lower the prolactin count and sent me for an MRI.  Apparently if you have pituitary tumors in your brain they leak the prolactin hormone and so I had to get checked for them.  Turns out-I was all clear.  Luckily the meds worked and my hormone is on average level now.  I've never researched so many things in my life!
Thinking I was in the clear and that I "should get pregnant now" I was ecstatic.  Nope-not as easy as it seems.  I've gotten more bloodwork known to man and each time there's always a next step.  I'm getting so irritated and feel like its getting harder to keep going.  Hopefully we see the end and soon!