DG's Baby Update

DesignerGal · Post by **DesignerGal** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 2:25 pm

Guess what guys? I am being tested for PCOS on Tuesday. This will be a big help in determining what the problem is! I have all of the outward symptoms, so Im hoping this will be the answer and then we can start down an avenue we actually need to be on.

I'll keep everyone posted, I guess.

My cousin (who just found out she was pregnant) was diagnosed with this. They put her on meds that are meant for diabetics. Insulin is a primary cause of PCOS inhibiting fertility, so this should help me get pregnant AND lose some of this weight I have gained. It helped her lose weight AND get pregnant!

Wish me luck!! Hopefully I will be pregnant by the end of the year!

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 2:30 pm

Hey DG...this is a step forward. I looked for some info. on the web beacuse I wasn't familiar with this. There is loads of stuff to read up on. Anyway ...good luck when you have the tests :-4

minks · Post by **minks** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 2:30 pm

DesignerGal wrote: Guess what guys? I am being tested for PCOS on Tuesday. This will be a big help in determining what the problem is! I have all of the outward symptoms, so Im hoping this will be the answer and then we can start down an avenue we actually need to be on.

I'll keep everyone posted, I guess.

My cousin (who just found out she was pregnant) was diagnosed with this. They put her on meds that are meant for diabetics. Insulin is a primary cause of PCOS inhibiting fertility, so this should help me get pregnant AND lose some of this weight I have gained. It helped her lose weight AND get pregnant!

Wish me luck!! Hopefully I will be pregnant by the end of the year!

Good Luck girl

Rapunzel · Post by **Rapunzel** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 2:49 pm

Best of luck DG! I'm rooting for ya!

But just wanted to say a couple of things...

Make sure your doctors and diabetic nurses KNOW you want to get pregnant!

If they put you on diabetic meds you HAVE to have injected insulin NOT tablets!!!!!

Injected insulin goes around the placenta and doesn't affect the baby, but tablets break down and the body actually forces the meds across the umbillical cord so the baby gets a very high dose of meds which can lead to miscarriage or severe problems for the baby.

Also, get your doctor to prescribe folic acid tablets, as they like you to take them for 6 months prior to conception, especially if you have diabetic tendencies.

Make sure you get a good diabetic nurse. If you're not happy, ask for someone else!

I don't want to scare you and I hope all goes well for you, but misinformation is a bad thing in this case and you need to know what you're dealing with.

Hugs, Mel. xxx

Rapunzel · Post by **Rapunzel** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 3:01 pm

DesignerGal wrote: so this should help me get pregnant AND lose some of this weight I have gained. It helped her lose weight AND get pregnant!

Sorry to be even more of a pain!

But insulin actually makes you put on weight, not lose it!

The insulin takes the excess sugar (glucose) from your blood...and turns it into fat cells!

It's crap, I know! That's why you will have to talk to a nutritionist also and watch your diet ...for ever!

You also can't eat soft cheeses and pates because of the risk of salmonella. Likewise, the only eggs you can eat MUST be hard-boiled. Be wary of eating seafoods because of the high mercury levels found in seafoods today and DON'T eat live yoghurt, because the bacteria in it can also harm the foetus!

Sorry hunny!

You might also have to test your blood glucose levels.

You can buy testing kits at Asda for Ã‚Â£5, which is the cheapest you can buy - and they're fine, they're Accu-Chek, which is the brand the hospitals use.

Final point, a good point at last, if you are diabetic or on diabetic medicine, you will be entitled to free prescriptions for everything you ever need, for the rest of your life!

DesignerGal · Post by **DesignerGal** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 3:02 pm

Rapunzel wrote: Best of luck DG! I'm rooting for ya!

But just wanted to say a couple of things...

Make sure your doctors and diabetic nurses KNOW you want to get pregnant!

If they put you on diabetic meds you HAVE to have injected insulin NOT tablets!!!!!

Injected insulin goes around the placenta and doesn't affect the baby, but tablets break down and the body actually forces the meds across the umbillical cord so the baby gets a very high dose of meds which can lead to miscarriage or severe problems for the baby.

Also, get your doctor to prescribe folic acid tablets, as they like you to take them for 6 months prior to conception, especially if you have diabetic tendencies.

Make sure you get a good diabetic nurse. If you're not happy, ask for someone else!

I don't want to scare you and I hope all goes well for you, but misinformation is a bad thing in this case and you need to know what you're dealing with.

Hugs, Mel. xxx

Thanks Rapunzel, but this is the situation:

IM not a diabetic. I am going in to see why I cant get pregnant. IM seeing a fertility specialist. Insufficient or too much insulin causes your ovaries not to function properly which in turn causes no ovulation. THe prescription (usually prescribed to diabetics) will regulate my insulin. IN addition, they will prescribe Clomid (fertility drugs, which I have taken already) to be taken so I will start to ovulate again. ALL the doctors know Im doing this JUST to get pregnant, but thanks for the info. ANd I have been on folic acid (pre natal drugs) tablets for almost 2 years now. But again, thanks for the information.

I'll let you guys know as soon as I do.

DesignerGal · Post by **DesignerGal** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 3:04 pm

That didnt sound right. I am really grateful for the info. I just wanted to let you know, IM farther along in the "ovulation problems" than I had previousley ed everyone to believe! Thanks Rapunzel, really, I mean it. Kind of you to list the info!;)

DesignerGal · Post by **DesignerGal** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 3:07 pm

Rapunzel wrote: Sorry to be even more of a pain!

But insulin actually makes you put on weight, not lose it!

The insulin takes the excess sugar (glucose) from your blood...and turns it into fat cells!

It's crap, I know! That's why you will have to talk to a nutritionist also and watch your diet ...for ever!

You also can't eat soft cheeses and pates because of the risk of salmonella. Likewise, the only eggs you can eat MUST be hard-boiled. Be wary of eating seafoods because of the high mercury levels found in seafoods today and DON'T eat live yoghurt, because the bacteria in it can also harm the foetus!

Sorry hunny!

You might also have to test your blood glucose levels.

You can buy testing kits at Asda for Ã‚Â£5, which is the cheapest you can buy - and they're fine, they're Accu-Chek, which is the brand the hospitals use.

Final point, a good point at last, if you are diabetic or on diabetic medicine, you will be entitled to free prescriptions for everything you ever need, for the rest of your life!

Im not taking insulin, its a prescription usually given to diabetics for some other reason. IM not sure I can explain it. And they put me on The South Beach Diet to help.

It has nothing to do with diabetes at all. Its just a drug that has many uses and diabetes symptoms is one of them. I will get you more info later!

Rapunzel · Post by **Rapunzel** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 3:34 pm

Okay, thanks for letting me know, DG. Hope all goes well for you! :-6

Rapunzel · Post by **Rapunzel** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 3:36 pm

SnoozeControl wrote: This is such a great place! Excellent news, DG and you got some brilliant medical info from our lovely and charming Rapunzel.Good luck, you!:yh_flower

So Snooze, you got the money and chox and flowers and blackmail note I sent you then, huh?

(I knew one of 'em would work!)

LMFAO!!! :yh_rotfl :yh_rotfl you crack me up, kiddo!

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 3:36 pm

This is a link to a good site....it may help explain things.

http://www.verity-pcos.org.uk/PCOSBOOKLET_APR05.pdf

sunny104 · Post by **sunny104** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 7:42 am

Prayers and best wishes to you!:)

pantsonfire321@aol.com · Sat Feb 18, 2006 7:45 am

DG all the best and dont give up on your dream- it will happen.

Sheryl · Post by **Sheryl** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 8:55 am

Good luck DG, my thoughts are with you!:-6

sheryl_b · Post by **sheryl_b** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 9:20 am

YEAH DG YOU MIGHT ACCTUALLY HAVE ONE OF YOUR OWN AIN'T I LUCKY I ALREADY GOT 2 AND 1 ONE THE WAYNO NEED FOR ME TO THINK ABOUT HAVING TO ADOPT AND PRETENDING TO PLAY MUMMY COS I ALREADY AM :p

Sheryl · Post by **Sheryl** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 9:31 am

sheryl_b wrote: YEAH DG YOU MIGHT ACCTUALLY HAVE ONE OF YOUR OWN AIN'T I LUCKY I ALREADY GOT 2 AND 1 ONE THE WAYNO NEED FOR ME TO THINK ABOUT HAVING TO ADOPT AND PRETENDING TO PLAY MUMMY COS I ALREADY AM :p

you don't have to be so rude. People who adopt are wonderful people who have lots of love in their hearts.

Sheryl · Post by **Sheryl** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 9:39 am

Wow, I know people who have adopted and they have never treated their children like they weren't thier own. Just because the baby isn't thier flesh and blood doesn't mean someone can't love that baby like their own.

I'm sorry you had such a bad expierence, but where would you be today if you hadn't been adopted?

valerie · Post by **valerie** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 10:34 am

aunty_ema1 wrote: well i don't know because i never got the chance to grow up within my birth family as i had that took away from me i never know maybe i could have had a better life insted of someone pretending she was my mother i could have accually been with my real one

You need serious counseling and FAST. The poison inside you is destroying

you and causing serious hurt to other people.

Designer Gal WILL have her OWN child no matter how it's sent to her!!

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 10:45 am

aunty_ema1 wrote: peopel who adopt need to realise that they will NEVER have there own child. i was adopted myself and i found my real mum who never gave me away i was TAKEN but the B*****D'S who bought me up never told me i was adopted till i found old paperwork then feed me lies saying my real mum didn't care and never wanted me so i totally agree with sheryl_b on this a child is never your own unless you give birth to it yourself
Logging in under 2 different names does not mean more people believe as you do,Sheryl B.

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 10:47 am

sheryl_b wrote: YEAH DG YOU MIGHT ACCTUALLY HAVE ONE OF YOUR OWN AIN'T I LUCKY I ALREADY GOT 2 AND 1 ONE THE WAYNO NEED FOR ME TO THINK ABOUT HAVING TO ADOPT AND PRETENDING TO PLAY MUMMY COS I ALREADY AM :p

No. Obviously you're giving birth, pretending to play mummy. You seem to link fertility with being a good mother. Believe me, anyone with as much poison and hate in her as you have, can't possibly keep it from affecting those poor innocent babes so unlucky as to have emerged from your womb.

Sheryl · Post by **Sheryl** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 10:55 am

Accountable wrote: Logging in under 2 different names does not mean more people believe as you do,Sheryl B.

actually 3 different names, Acc

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 10:56 am

i've reported it.

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 11:19 am

Sheryl wrote: actually 3 different names, AccWho's the third?

Sheryl · Post by **Sheryl** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 11:40 am

Accountable wrote: Who's the third?

aunty_ema, aunty_ema1 and aunty_ema23

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 1:21 pm

Clancy wrote: DG Don't respond to this muppet ....please allow us the favour, of letting the rest of us do it for you.

Apparently muppets have a different reputation in the UK.

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 1:37 pm

Clancy wrote: ...aye, and the muppet's looking at this thread right nowshe lurks a lot, but can't post.

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 1:44 pm

Clancy wrote: ....it'll be a the white knuckle stages then ? :)probably chewing on her mouse and looking for a fix.

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 1:46 pm

Clancy wrote: DG Don't respond to this muppet ....please allow us the favour, of letting the rest of us do it for you.

Muppet is TOO nice a word Clancy...unfortunately the alternatives would get us banned !!!!

DesignerGal · Post by **DesignerGal** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 6:50 am

Hey Guys! Clancy, thanks for the PM. I appreciate all the support, but this woman (if you can even call her that) is a total piece of trash. I could care less what she says one way or the other. This thread is about my baby news and I have some more!!!

Hubbie is NOT shooting blanks. We got the test results yesterday! My sonogram is scheduled for March. They will be checking for PCOS and to see if I have ovulated for that cycle yet if PCOS isnt detected. So that is it for now, I will keep you updated...as usual, I have been keeping my temerpature and records of other things I wont go in to detail about. I dont want to make all the men sick!

As for Sheryl_B, I am not worried about her drug induced meannness. I hope someone gets their hands on her kids before she damages them. Doesnt she know that kids who grow up in a home with a drug abuser either get hooked as well or grow up hating her guts? Sad situation there. I am not sure how social services works over there but mommies who are on binges dont get to keep their kids.

DesignerGal · Post by **DesignerGal** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 8:19 am

SnoozeControl wrote: The bitch should've been spayed years ago.:rolleyes:

:yh_rotfl

You are always me hero.

DesignerGal · Post by **DesignerGal** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 9:16 am

OK guys. We are trying AGAIN this month. I am ovulating somewhere between 3/26 and 3/28. We are going on about our business every other day though until my cycle starts again. I hope it doesnt start though!!!!!

Im thinking of switching Doctors again and my husband is kinda pissed about it.

pantsonfire321@aol.com · Tue Mar 28, 2006 9:19 am

DesignerGal wrote: OK guys. We are trying AGAIN this month. I am ovulating somewhere between 3/26 and 3/28. We are going on about our business every other day though until my cycle starts again. I hope it doesnt start though!!!!!

Im thinking of switching Doctors again and my husband is kinda pissed about it.

Honey do whatever is best for you and makes your life easier .

cars · Post by **cars** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 9:43 am

DesignerGal wrote: OK guys. We are trying AGAIN this month. I am ovulating somewhere between 3/26 and 3/28. We are going on about our business every other day though until my cycle starts again. I hope it doesnt start though!!!!!

Im thinking of switching Doctors again and my husband is kinda pissed about it.

Only the very very best of wishes are sent your way DG, may you get your hearts desires. :-4 (You certainly would if it were up to me!)

minks · Post by **minks** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 9:57 am

cars wrote: Only the very very best of wishes are sent your way DG, may you get your hearts desires. :-4 (You certainly would if it were up to me!)

GOOD LUCK ok

as for switching doctors that is ok too. Most people with a problem that can't be solved by the medical profession switch doctors. I read for example on average a person diagnosed with IBS sees 3 doctors before they are correctly diagnosed. So do what ya have to hun.

pina · Post by **pina** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 10:01 am

Good luck DG, I'm sure it will work out ok for you. :-6

DesignerGal · Post by **DesignerGal** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 10:10 am

If you arent tired of hearing about this yet read on:

Hubbie and I went to see the specialist yesterday! FINALLY! She was so great! Someone to finally listen!

She started me on 2 medications (Metformin and Clomid) to get me ovulating. I have to call her when my next cycle starts and she will have me come in on a certain day after that and do an ultrasound to see if I am about to ovulate. Then she will do an HSG test (which checks for blockage by insterting dye into your plumbing). If everything is fine we'll continue with the medication until I'm pregnant. It took my cousin 4 months to get pregnant on these drugs but she only took the metformin not the clomid because she didnt want to chance multiples. So, cross your fingers. If this doesnt work we will move on to ANOTHER semen analysis then artificial insemination. After that we are looking at starting IVF. Hopefully the pills will work because I also found out yesterday our insurance covers NOTHING!!!

Have a great weekend everyone!

SweetDarlin · Post by **SweetDarlin** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 10:16 am

Good luck Darlin :-4