First, the good news.......
Ok, now the rant.
1. Another BFN. Despite a month of steroids and baby aspirin, my non-baby-friendly body just won't play ball. Another double blast photo thrown ceremonially into the bin.
2. Thank you Fertility Clinic for the following examples of poor service:
a) Telling me not to call to find out whether we would get any frosties, but to wait till you send me a cycle summary, which could take 2 weeks. Despite their negativity, I did get one frostie this cycle, so have 2 in the bank which will no doubt be flushed into the wide, infertile ether next month.
b) I asked for my recurrent miscarriage result print-outs at my BT so I could consult Dr. Google myself. Thank you for not telling me that I'm a compound heterozygote for the MTHFR mutation, meaning that I have a very high chance of recurrent miscarriage. What do I have to do to get some medical service, here? Why am I constantly having to do research and second guess everything? Are you just playing the numbers game until I give up?
c) Telling me in January that there probably wasn't any tissue left to test on that blighted ovum. In amongst my test results the other day was a result for this self-same miscarriage from FOUR MONTHS AGO. It was a chromosomally normal little boy. I hate my body. :-( So I walked around all day thinking of this boy.
My next steps are as follows:
To get an appointment with a well-known recurrent miscarriage specialist here at the Women's and to take in my auto-immune results. Clearly the Fertility Specialists are not Loss specialists.
To start mega doses of folate and B6, B12, C group vitamins in case this MTHFR is a factor.
To do a natural cycle in June when we go away for a week to Qld, and then a possible FET in July.
That is all.
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4 comments:
hey Mez,
you have probably had a gutfull of hearing the word -Sorry -
so I'll just say THAT SUCKS
I was mortified to read your blog. . I CANNOT BELIEVE they did not openly dicuss these issues or tests with you.Get another opinion mate.
Makes me want to drop some hard core expletives !
I will assume you have made the trip to the bottle shop by now - tuck in sister
much love to you,
Catch22 X
Thing of you Mez.
It seems the (more expensive) WA clinic may be doing something right (although I am still waiting for them to give me my miracle!).
Good on you for not being a passive consumer and for taking an active approach to managing your health. I did research into the MTHFR mutation and thought I had chanced upon the answer I had been looking for. I took it up with Dr P and he was receptive, agreed to tests which then showed it wasn't my problem after all. I have still upped my folate, though, just in case.
Sorry ... that should have started "Thinking of you Mez".
Mez, you already know how sad and angered I am by all this. Glad you are taking your case to someone who knows what to do in these situations.
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