One more complaint about the fertility specialist!!!

He is OFFICIALLY THE BIGGEST MORON EVER IN A SUCCESSFUL PROFESSION. He FINALLY called me back after more than two weeks on the results of the endometrial biopsy that he ordered WRONG and had to reorder the test.. luckily they still had the sample. (They tested it for cancer instead of the growth of my uterus lining)... so he leaves a message on my phone the min I stepped away from my desk, of course.

He said "well, it looks like the test result showed your uterus to be at around cycle day 21-22, which we know it does not look good because you did the test on cycle day 25.. oh I mean 24. So you see, there is a 2 day delay in the development of your uterus lining. Typically to do a diagnosis, we will have to repeat one more endometrial biopsy. So call us again when you get another OPK + and we'll have that scheduled."

So as I'm jotting down all this information on to a pad, my heart is sinking because he's telling me I may have a Luteal Phase Defect. I'm currently pregnant. This baby stands no chance.

Then, being the borderline obsessive compulsive analyzer that I am, I put down the dates he mentioned onto my calendar and wait a second !!! I did the test about a week before my period came!! My cycle was 25 days last month.... so how is it that I did the test on cycle day 24!?!? As soon as I got home, I looked on my planner (which I left at home)... uh HUH, I did the freaken test on cycle day 21!!!!!!!!!!

Freaken dumbass!! I want to clobber him on the head with a broomstick! He didn't even bother getting his facts/information straight before he gave his patient the worst news ever? Oh and not to mention making the patient go through another extremely painful biopsy. OMG!!! I'm going to have to call the office tomorrow and talk to a nurse to get this straightened out. Is he ridiculous or what??

What a fucking waste of time! Let me tell you why!!!
1. They didn't have results for 5 out of 9 tests.... because they're "lost" or "they did them wrong". I have to redo them. (NOT)
2. The endometrial biopsy to test the lining of my uterus???? THEY "dropped the ball" and TESTED FOR CANCER INSTEAD. HELLO? Specialist has to call them to reinterpret the samples relevant to fertility...
3. The doctor I have is a ROBOT. You ask him questions based on your own charts and history, and he tells you the most basic and general texbook answer... that you ALREADY know from researching on google. He's an Assistant Professor at a university, and I think very strongly that he should just stick to lectures. He has no business dealing with patients!




Waste of TIME! oh also I showed him my most recent chart, he kept saying "oh I don't like this one... the temperature should stay raised and should not drop at all in the luteal phase (post ovulation).... so I kept asking him, why? He says "the temperature should remain high"... "ok, but what causes it go high or low?... do I not have enough progesterone? Estrogen, what??" He says "Well... it depends" ..so what makes you say "it doesn't look good"??? "It should stay high"

UGH. So frustrating!

Also, then I noted to him that we're actively trying to conceive this cycle.. so could it be the drop in temp for today (DPO 8) is due to implantation? Because, implanation happens around 7-10 days?

He said "No. Implantation does not cause temperature to drop. Estrogen does. Also, implantation occurs on day 5 after ovulation."

Oh, ok, so everything I've read on the Internet: i.e. Fertility Friend, Pregnancyinfo, is completely false. I see....

Basically, I will NOT be returning to this doctor. What luck huh? I invested 2 months to see him to get some help, and not only was he absolutely no help at all, but I had to battle insurance almost once every week to get NOTHING. What a HUGE waste of time!!!


Basically, I'm not going back to him.

Followup appointment with specialist

Finally the damn insurance shit is resolved. I don't know who dropped the ball, but, without going into details, I had to cancel my appointment twice because the first authorization expired and I couldn't get my results from the specialist unless I paid out of pocket, wtf?? So now, of course, I'm probably already pregnant (ha, optimistic yes), and I still don't know if there's something physically wrong with me that is causing me to miscarry. (good move)

Anyways, I finally have an appointment tomorrow at 3:45pm. HOPING FOR GOOD NEWS!
I'm brining in my charts of course, so he can tell me if everything looks "normal" and I have a good luteal phase.

Also, I notice I start off a lot of these posts with "finally"... baby making is a whole lot of waiting around isn't? Not fun.

Reassurance over impatience

We've decided to wait on TTC and do the tests that the specialist recommended.

I have to be adament about recording my temperature and have to test for positive ovulation. All tests need to be done within a certain time frame of your cycle. I'm charting on fertilityfriend.com : http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/23bdf2

The first one, Serum Progesterone, is done 8-10 days after your ovulation date.
Second one, endometrial biopsy, is done 6-8 days before your next menses (around the same time as above for me).

Third test, HSG xray, is done 4-5 days after the beginning of your cycle, so most likely will be around early January for me.

Then we're done and can go right ahead and try. However, would need to wait 2 weeks for the results. I have a feeling that will be around or after my next ovulation date. I would hate to miss another cycle, but it also wouldn't make any sense for us to do the tests but not wait for the results before trying again.

So in short, nothing has changed. I will wait until Feb to try to concieve.

Good news is my AF is completely normal. It stopped bleeding in 3 days and spotted for 2. As of Sunday, I've been free of it.

Infertility specialist appointment

I have mixed feelings about the appointment. Basically, the doctor went straight to a plan of actions: 1. test progesterone 2. get a endometrial biopsy (check uterus lining) then next cycle 3. get a HSG test, where they pump ink into your uterus to see the structure of it.

All this would take about 2 cycles, in which you can not become pregnant. There's a 50/50 chance they will find something wrong, or nothing at all. So second plan of action is to check for genetic problems, which could take another cycle. In short, I can take about 3 months of testing to have a 50/50 chance of find something wrong and have 50% chance of being able to fix it, or not at all... and the flip side is that we may not find a single thing wrong and those two miscarriages occurred by chance - or "bad luck" as he put it. If that is the case, then I would have wasted 3 months of testing for nothing.

On the flip side, we could get pregnant this cycle, and either carry full term (no time loss), or have another miscarriage, wait around for at most 3 months before we find out the pregnancy is not viable... then take another 2 months for the miscarriage to finish, and end up right back where we are right now. Except then it's certain that we need medical intervention. But then I would have lost 5 months... and another baby. And would need another 3 months of testing before we could try again. That's 8 months of time lost. But I guess by that time, it doesn't really matter because obviously I have a very severe reproductive problem.

I'm not sure what to do. Try again and hope that third time's the charm, or have another miscarriage and get really angry at myself for consciously choosing not to test and correct any reproductive problems and killing another baby because of my actions.

Still in limbo.

Still no period. Still no positive. I've never had this happen before. I don't think I've had a period since July before I got pregnant. This is making me really nervous.

The other thing that's making me nervous is the cost of visits with the infertility specialist. I called my insurance who verified I must cover 50% of all costs. Well how much does it cost? What's 50%?

At least I haven't noticed any cramping for the past week.

Please come visit me soon, Aunt Flo.

Specialist appointment

Yes, I finally have one. 2 weeks ago, my insurance approved a referral from my OBGYN to see an infertility specialist after my second miscarriage, thank goodness. So now I have a consultation! yes! December 5th. I'm not sure what I expect to get out of it because we have no troubles conceiving, so we're don't need medical intervention for fertility. But the two consecutive miscarriages is what concerns us. What will they do for me? Test my uterus? Count my husband's swimmers? I hope something.