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Last AF for a while!
After another abnormally long cycle for me, 35 days, which seems to be my bodies new trend. I'm starting Lupron on Wednesday for six months to treat my leftover endo that couldn't be removed from surgery.
I'm a bit nervous. I've never had to do anything like this before and it's a scary world. I'll be on drugs every day to help combat the menopause side effects. The reality of the situation and what it all means is hitting me all at once.
I called DH to tell him my first shot would be on Wednesday and he said "So in 6 months that means we start......" and I said "yea...weird huh?" Obviously we start if all goes well.
So I/we have six months to get our lives together. Get the house where we want it to be, clean up the yard, save more money, have good talks about our future with trying for kids, getting my body healthy and where I want it to be before we start this journey, well the second part.
I always thought when I was a little girl, or even in high school there would be this path I would go down and it's funny how it's not even close to what I thought life would be. I always thought I would have some high power job making decent money, get pregnant and then juggle both. I am far from that and it's a struggle just to accept that it is what it is. My best friend from HS who is getting a divorce had a good chuckle over what we thought life was going to be and what it is.
So ladies...a long post...but very therapeutic for me. I'm starting a completely new chapter of my life on Wednesday and we will see how it goes. You can only take life one day at a time and not worry about the future too much.
Re: Last AF for a while!
Oh I hear you. One of the lessons I have learned is although you can't always make the big happy things happen like other people in your life is to really see what you have and not lack there of or what you want. I focused on this for years, still have problems at times, esp when someone else I love starts to die or just dies.
I try to focus on the small things because I think life is all the small moments strung together to create a big picture. It's the small things that most people tend to forget or look over but I like to hold onto those smaller things and hold them close.
totally agree.
I wish you all the very best in these next months. While reading your post I could just hear the peacefulness in your words and I think your approach is so wonderful.
Good luck to you! I hope everything goes well.
Good luck! It really is a bit of a reality check, isn't it?!
And I'm not sure what dosage you'll be on, but, while others have bad side effects with the Lupron, I never really reacted too badly to it. So I hope that holds true to you as well.
Ah - 6 months! So exciting and scary at the same time!
My first haircut!
Severe MFI - on to IVF w/ ICSI
IVF#1-2: BFN
IVF#3: BFP! - 1/24: ET - 5d - 2 blasts - 2/02: Beta #1: 16.2 ...... 2/04: Beta #2: 35 ...... 2/09: Beta #3: 401.5 - I'm pregnant! - 2/13: u/s #1 - baby boy, due 10/12, born 10/16! ...... 8 lbs 0 oz, 22 inches!
Huuuuuge reality check...now that I have less than an hour or so to leave the house to get the shot I'm kinda freaking out. That peaceful side of yesterday is gone...ahhhh hahahaha