Hi everyone,
I registered last week, the day after I had a hysterosalpingogram (okay, so I'm not sure how to spell it). So it's this procedure to see if the fallopian tubes are good (the doc wanted to know if there was something else besides the PCOS). Anyway the results were good, they're just fine, which is good - but sheesh! It was painful and I've been feeling awful!!
I've never registered on a site before, but when I started reading some of the threads here it was so awesome! There is so much I've got to learn yet. It's so amazing to find a place where everyone gets what it's like to live with PCOS. There's a real comfort in knowing that there are others who share my experiences. I've really needed that in the last few days, so thanks for being there
Welcome Dawn Pearl, nice to see some more kiwis arriving
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Wow! My life has changed so much in the last year it is totally dizzying! A month after I joined this forum I started on metformin, then my mother-in-law passed away. That was a massive change in our lives in itself. Then three months later I started on clomiphene. I'd been on it a couple of years ago, by itself, and had just gotten worse migraines, and been generally under the weather, and hadn't responded to it as I was meant to at all. So this was just a final fling with the medication, we weren't holding our breath in eager anticipation this time.
So when I ovulated on the first cycle of combined metformin and clomiphene it was such a shock! It was scary too because now there was real reason to hope - a proven ovulation!! Facing the roller-coaster ride of hope and disappointment again was hard emotionally, especially so soon after losing my husband's mum. But then - I fell pregnant that same cycle!
So I'm really delighted to say that after ten years of 'trying', and the awful agony of the raised hopes you get from going on fertility medications, and repeated disappointment, that we now have a healthy 3-month-old son!!! The pregnancy and labour went so well, and he's a really contented little baby. I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes though, but I was able to control that with diet, so that was okay in the end. It was a bit stressful being diagnosed, but great to be able to show I had it in hand once I had the kit to do the blood sugar level tests. They were still going to induce me on my due date, but two afternoons of burning clary sage essential oil got my labour under way, so that was good. It didn't affect my son's weight either, so it all worked out okay.
Since then we've moved from the city to a small town, and have even bought a house. So much has changed, and so quickly. I wouldn't have believed my life could be this different a year after I wrote my first post on this forum. In fact, one year after writing that post I had a week-old baby.
Labour was such a positive experience. In contrast to the suffering I experienced with the two minutes of pain during the hysterosalpingogram, the really painful two hours of second stage labour I had was pain with a purpose. I didn't mind it, it was fine because it had a positive and profound outcome. Being a mother feels so right and normal now, but I'll always value it differently for the decade of infertility which preceded it.
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Kiwi Newbie 
(sorry to hear about ur MIL)
