November Queer Conceptions - hoping for a bun in the oven (and not of the Thanksgiving dinner... - Page 9

[FtMPapa]

Originally Posted by astropeep

FtMPapa -- I haven't tried the refrigerated cream suppositories. I use "Endometrin", which is 100 mg progesterone inside a baking soda pill, stored at room temp, and inserted vaginally w a tampon-like applicator. (TMI alert). The baking-soda discharge is odorless, has the consistency of toothpaste, and is annoying but ignorable. (Pantiliners + boy briefs = funny-looking but effective.) No itchiness, and the cats don't mind. I much prefer them to shots, but given your needle tolerance I can see you going the other way.

Naw, even for me a daily injection of PIO sounds like a lot. Weekly is one thing, daily another entirely. I'm even sick of doing The Pen Thing Gizmo daily, and I've only done it twice or so!

I'm going that way, next time (please let there never be a next time!)

AFM - ongoing clinic BS. Now they won't send the order to the ultrasound lab until the financial people get the their poo together, and the financial people have not been talking to the insurance company...I'm very frustrated, to say the least. It was suggested to me again that I pay out of pocket (no) and then they said "Well maybe we can do the ultrasound on Friday..." no. The doc ordered it on Thursday. I am not letting my medical care be compromised because their financial clerk can't make or return phone calls!

Who ever heard of this kind of BS? It's one thing when you have to fight with insurance, quite another when you have the insurance saying "FILE THE CLAIM" and the clinic saying "we won't until we get permission to file the claim in writing." Like, WTF?

[osker]

Papa, I'm sorry you're getting the runaround. How annoying! I know its not quite as important, but we once tried to buy a sofa from IK*A...

I called to purchase it and was told that it was up high on a shelf, which I guess meant that they would have to get a crane to get it down. So I said, "okay, let's do that."
And they said "well, to get it down you would have to buy it first"... and I said "okay, let's do that"...
to which, no lie, they said "well, in order to buy it, it would have to be down off the shelf already". . . I kid you not.
So they couldn't get it down til I bought it, but I couldn't buy it til they got it down!! And the kicker was that they couldn't see what the problem was!!!

Some people's lack of common sense can be so infuriating!
hope things get better with the clinic!

AFU: 9dpo and there are NO symptoms at all! Nothing, not a single solitary thing. I'm sure this means we're up for another BFN... but lovely DW is holding out hope. AF is due Sunday, so we'll see what happens.

[FtMPapa]

Oh, but I do love IK**. And their meatballs. What a sad story!

Update:

Insurance company says "The issue is resolved, we faxed them the letter they want."

Clinic says "Fax, what fax?"

Insurance company says "HOld on, we're sending it again...but that's weird, our rep noted that she spoke to them, they got the fax, and the issue is resolved. but she's gone and we can't get her 'til tomorrow."

Clinic says "Oh, sorry, I'm leaving for today, I'll look for it tomorrow."

Papa: will be found banging head against wall.

[osker]

Aw, crap!

Not a nice thing to think... but do you think this is their way of discriminating against you or getting you to take your business elsewhere? It might be worth documenting everything, just in case.
What a PITA.

[astropeep]

"That's some catch, that catch-22," he observed. "It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.

[painefaria]

So after two tests (DP didn't believe the first )
:j oy

We will be having a little one in late July/early August!!!

[Miss Scarlett]

Painefaria!!!!!

WOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! CONGRATS! and tell that bean to be SUPER STICKY!!! That is GREAT news!

Papa- YUM to IK*A meatballs, and that lingenberry sauce...mmmmmm


AFM--Still waiting. Going back and forth between being *sure* both directions. (sigh)

BTW I LOVE that little guy....I definitely think it was developed by a 2WWer

[Lyndzies]

Originally Posted by painefaria

So after two tests (DP didn't believe the first )
:j oy

We will be having a little one in late July/early August!!!

So exciting!!!! Many congrats to you and DP!

Shall I move you, you happy little graduate, you??!

[FtMPapa]

Originally Posted by osker

Aw, crap!

Not a nice thing to think... but do you think this is their way of discriminating against you or getting you to take your business elsewhere? It might be worth documenting everything, just in case.
What a PITA.

I totally considered the possibility, but I don't think so. They did call in my medication....I think that the one particular person in the office is just being extremely difficult and ornery.

But, the insurance company e-mailed me a faxed copy of the letter, which I am forwarding to the clinic. head

Astropeep - I hope you know I love you. How are you doin'?

And to painefaria - much to you!

[painefaria]

Originally Posted by Lyndzies

Shall I move you, you happy little graduate, you??!

YES and I hope that you will be joining us soon! You are testing today or tomorrow?

[Lyndzies]

Originally Posted by painefaria

YES and I hope that you will be joining us soon! You are testing today or tomorrow?

Yay! Moved ya!


AFM - Tested. Pretty sure it's BFN. Maybe SOMETHING there, but it's even harder to see IRL than in the regular or tweaked photo, so I'm not hopeful. I didn't have time to do a good tweak, but there you have it. I put dots where I think there could be a phantom line of some sort.

Feeling hopeless for this cycle at the moment, and kicking myself for wasting a test.

Oh well.

[jjnoho]

Originally Posted by osker

AFU: 9dpo and there are NO symptoms at all! Nothing, not a single solitary thing. I'm sure this means we're up for another BFN... but lovely DW is holding out hope. AF is due Sunday, so we'll see what happens.

don't give up hope yet. on our + cycle, i didn't have a single symptom of anything and i waited to test until 14 dpo. our + test was our first indicator.

funny ik** story i love that store but that is some sort of logic!?

papa: how infuriating. medical billing is so insane in this country! anyone in support of universal coverage???

[Lyndzies]

Someone on FF pulled out this and this. Sigh. Definitely obsessing now.

[Miss Scarlett]

*twiddles thumbs while whistling*

[FtMPapa]

Originally Posted by Lyndzies

Feeling hopeless for this cycle at the moment, and kicking myself for wasting a test.

Lyndzies. This is the worst part of every cycle!


AFM - Long story short, the clinic's billing person finally got the letter she needed today. Turns out, the one she got yesterday was "too vague" so she asked for a new letter, and the insurance got that to her ASAP.

My first ultrasound is booked for 8:30 tomorrow morning, and this was all resolved around 4:15 PM this afternoon...last minute, much?

Meanwhile, I can feel my left ovary singing at me. I swear it feels like it's CD 12 instead of CD 6 in there, and it feels like there's about five follicles on my left ovary. We'll find out tomorrow! I'll be wearing my new lucky socks for the lucky wanding!

[katharinerose]

Back again and going nuts...

Haven't read the whole thread, but first things: painefaria!!! Welcome and congrats!

Lyndzies: : so hard for you!

Papa: Fighting with the health care system = please kill me now. Of course we just bought insurance that doesn't cover infertility at all, so there isn't anything to fight over.

So we successfully made the move out to WA, and other than neither of us having jobs things are pretty good. And this month was our first TTC attempt since June? July? I can't even remember. I totally intended to be chill about it and not obsess, and yeah. That went out the window real fast.

Not only are we a little out of practice, but this was the fist cycle where we had to have our vials shipped. And of course, the FedEx guy comes in the hour I was upstairs where you can't hear the doorbell. Then there's the ovulation game, where I think I'm ovulating, worried that I actually missed it, we insem, and then I continue to be pre-o for 24 hours at least. This leads to a major meltdown where I'm freaking out because I can't be trusted to figure out my own body, coupled with a serious limit on the vials left of our KD (I think it's down to around 4?), and a lack of money to pay anyone for any TTC help (see above, re: insurance with no fertility coverage.)

I'm now at 10DPO (according to FF). Had some mild to moderate crampiness last night, a little more this morning (which is not a normal PMS symptom for me), along with some mild naseau/heartburn, and breasts which are sore, but not in their normal PM way. This is more centralized directly under my nipples... Oh and my temp dropped 1/2 a degree this morning, which could be implantation, impending bleeding, or just me not being able to sleep last night.

So now I'm thinking that I possibly ovulated on both sides. My chart shows a temp jump on CD19 (when I got a super strong +OPK, and distinct L side ovulation pain) and then again on CD 21 when my EWCM dried up. I definitely felt some R side twingey-ness as well this month.

I'm not telling DW about all this because she takes it harder than I do when the BFN comes back, esp. if she's gotten her hopes up. But this babe would be due just about on her B-Day, which would be cool.

Anyway, there's my neuroses for the moment. Back to your list.

[Lyndzies]

Thanks for the FX, friends.

Papa, sorry about the craziness you're having to deal w. I hope the US goes well tomorrow.

I'm... I dunno, spotting? I never spot. And AF isn't due till Friday. But I was checking CM and it's this sort of streaky brown/pink... very subtle, but there.

Weird.

Sigh.

[FtMPapa]

Lyndzies!

Could be implantation....could be random pregnant spotting...could be you've annoyed your cervix by checking it every ten minutes. (Been there, done that...did I tell you about the time I was like I'M SPOTTING!! and then I realized that I had used a bright red towel that morning, so it was actually towel lint? Yeah. The TTC does make for a little bit of crazy!)

KatharineRose! Welcome back! I missed you!

Yeah - actually, I've been fighting with The Good Clinic, not the insurance, which I find surprising. Isn't it usually the insurance one fights with?

for you this month!

[Beastie]

Lydzies! I know the last thing you need is more anecdotal evidence to make yourself insane, but I can't contain myself, because you just listed my one mysterious post-O symptom from the cycle that I got pregnant (I even ran back to FF to double check).

In any case, I had some unexplained, very very light spotting (it really was almost like a pinkish tint when I wiped), on 12dpo. At the time, it didn't make any sense (too late for O-related spotting, not quite right for implantation spotting). And then I was pregnant!

Anyway, I hope it's an equally lucky mystery symptom for you.

FX, Beastie.

[Lyndzies]

Papa and Beastie - thanks for the encouragement, both of you! I hope you are right about it possible being some type of "pregnant spotting."

I'm a total ridiculous TTC freak right now and decided (for what reason is beyond me) that it would be a good idea to POA digi (the only test in the house) at 8pm.

Yeah. That turned out well. Nothing like a piece of plastic screaming "NOT PREGNANT" at you after a long day at work.



I've got one finger for you, digi. The one that most easily reaches my cervix!