2 posts tagged “pcos”
Well, let me just give you the short-cut story. The reason for the short story is because I hurt and am on good pain meds right now. Basically I had some horrible pain that everyone was worried was appendicitis (sp?) so I went to the ER today. After 4 hrs, phenergen, morphine and a CT scan it turns out the pain is from ovarian cysts...and oodles of them, one in particular. Both ovaries are just covered with cysts with the right one having the largest 2cm cyst which will probably burst soon. Needless to say I hurt but would like to rub it in to all docs that have seen me and can't figure out why I haven't had a period in MONTHS...nanner-nanner-boo-boo...I have PCOS! DUH!
Anyway, I have instructions to follow up with my ob/gyn on what to do. Honestly all of me wants them to let me have a complete hysterectomy. But I doubt anyone will, me being 28 (almost 29) and all. But come on...it's causing more pain than anything and I apparently can't use any of my "parts" for child-rearing so take the fuckers out!
The "other fun stuff" I eluded to in the title is that Work Comp Ok'd my surgery on my ankle. Guess they just wanted to see how badly I wanted it done and how annoying I can/will be if I am denied. So, surgery is now scheduled on the left ankle, just a scope right now, at noon on Thursday, March 6th. Whoopie doo!
I'll make this short (not really, but whatever), but basically he said that after reviewing my file (which he did while I sat there) he said that he read a case done last year with women who had abrupted badly enough to loose their babies. Of those women 10% abrupted again and lost the babies again. He said he doesn't feel comfortable telling me what my chances of having another baby die or me die, but based on that case study he said that if I did get preggers that I'd have a 10% chance that I'd abrupt at some point and baby would die. He explained that it's not just losing the baby but he said about the DIC and me getting sick again. he told me that he's only treated/seen 7 women that lived after going through DIC and I was one. So, he told me NOT to have any more, but he did say that he can't decide for us and we'll have to make the decision, but he would strongly advise against it.
Then he told me that I need to be on bp meds and so he hooked me up with a family practioner to see (no appt date set yet) to get on those and to talk to him about my migranes. He's afraid I'm having the TIAs and so he doens't know what they'd do for me.
THEN...he tells me that he thinks I have PCOS, but wants me to see an OB/gyn about it since he doesn't deal with non preggers PCOS patients. I have an appt on May 9th with the Ob/gyn to talk to him about that and possibly do an IUD or to tie my tubes.
He was an awesome doc...I really liked him and he was great with Kenna. He even said he knows what it's like to have one kid and want another but can't for some reason. he said he and his wife went through that and decided after years to just be happy with their first. He had a good head on his shoulders and even understood that wasn't wha I wanted to hear, but knew that I NEEDED to hear it. He put it really well that your heart wants it, but you have to convince your brain, sometimes hearing it 2x makes it more real. He said their infertility group is great if we want to do surogacy, but we can talk about that later again.
He told me this story of a woman he treated and had 5 stillbirths, after each he told her not to do it again, but she kept on and on. Her depression kept getting worse each time and finally she had her 6th stillborn and went home and killed herself. He said he's never forgave himself for that because he felt he could have done more to stop her from having more babies, but he said all he can do is tell us what he thinks and go with it.
If I do get preggers, he told me he'd treat me and "throw all the black magic he could at me because he'd be worried about giving someone who went through DIC an anticoagulant (heparin, lovenox)", he'd also see me every week from 19wks on and u/s every week to. But docs are afraid of abruptions and they can happen in seconds. He had a woman in the hospital for 20 wks because of previous abruptions and everything was great, then one morning all looked fine, but 1 1/2 hrs later the baby was dead due to abruption. He said there's nothing they can do to stop them, that's why docs are afraid of them.
So much for making this short huh? Basically the baby factory REALLY is closed, my BP is way high, I'm not having periods, I've gained 10 lbs in 3 months AND...I'm stroking out at the age of 28! Bascially...WHY did I go to this appt again?! LMAO!
