Well, I just finished a rather yucky week of testing.  I was beginning to feel like a pin cushion.  Both of us had some basic blood work done, then on day 3 of my cycle I had some hormone blood work done.  And then a couple of days later I had a 2-hour glucose test and in the afternoon the hysterosalpingogram (HSG) done.  The worst part of that day was the 2-hour glucose test.  Just knowing I had to be poked with dreaded needles caused me some consternation.  The HSG was pretty uncomfortable, but wasn’t horrid.  Turns out I have perfect fallopian tubes!

So we’ve completed some basic testing to see if we can learn what might be causing our infertility.  The doctor said I have hypothyroidism so he increased the synthroid I’m on.

Between the two health professionals I’ve seen regarding my problem ovulating, they’ve come up with  pre-diabetes, hypthryoidism and PCOS.  Of all the symptoms of all these potential problems, I don’t have a majority of symptoms for any one of them.  Being a non-medical person, I’m guessing here, but I think maybe the problem is that I’m on the verge of all three.  No one of these problems is the real problem yet, but maybe I’m getting toward the borderline of any/all of the three becoming a real problem.  And the combination of these three things becoming a problem is causing the lack of ovulation.

The issue here is weight.  I don’t know how hypothyroidism is caused, but I know weight loss would fix the pre-diabetes and the PCOS (probably).  I actually gained 9 pounds while taking glucophage (for pre-diabetes), but since reducing the glucophage and starting the synthroid I’ve lost 15 pounds.  The doctor said if I’ve got PCOS, weight loss is really, really hard.  But I’ve lost that 15 pounds in 2 months without trying.  (Now, let’s just hope the rest comes off as easily…don’t think so, but I’m hoping.)

Ya know, if you think about it really, medical science isn’t (even in this day and age) a very perfect science.  It still is so very reliant on opinion.  And if a particular doctor’s mind is already slanted in one particular direction for diagnoses it seems pretty hard for him/her to change that prosceptive.