My cycle started exactly as it should.
Saturday 15th June 2013.
Day 1 of my cycle will be Sunday 16th June though as I did not start bleeding until 11pm.
So on Monday 17th I headed to London for my Day 1 – 3 bloods.
I called into the ARGC to pay and collect my blood forms
Then walked that all too familiar walk round to Harley Street
The Blood Clinic
The infamous, ominous big red door.
It felt funny to be back there.
Nothing has changed.
It really could have been 2010 again.
I had the necessary blood taken.
Then I was free to go.
All the way home again.
The phone call came in the afternoon.
The nurse asked if this period was a usual one for me.
I answered yes.
It is on time and the flow is light as it has been since my cycle started again.
After Matilda died.
The nurse was concerned that my hormone levels were very high.
She did not tell me the exact levels.
Just that she had to talk to the doctor
And would call me back.
She did call back again
To arrange a mid cycle scan.
Nothing more was said about the levels.
I will call them again in the morning.
To find out what the levels are.
High FSH and LH could be a sign of low egg stores, problems with ovulating or symptoms of a cyst or polycystic ovaries.
Oh dear!
We are well and truly back on this treadmill now.
It is going to be a long 10 days.
I am sorry the ‘treadmill’ feels so lonely. But your sharing will certainly help another woman feel a little less isolated, I am sure, and I know that will please you. You are very brave to document this all. I’m very proud of you.
xxxx
You are so brave to share this. I know if I’d had found something like this to read when we were trying to conceive Potato, I would have felt a lot less alone. And if just 1 person who knows nothing about the strain and burden of IVF, gets an understanding of it, then you’ve already made a difference xx