The joys of the vaginal ultrasound

I never had one of these until a couple of weeks ago. At our first appointment with the Reproductive Endocrinologist they did a vaginal ultrasound to check out my uterus and ovaries to make sure everything looked normal. (They did).

Then I was told that I needed to call them when I started my period and that they would do some bloodwork to check hormone levels. So I called on the day that I started. It just happened to be around the 4th of July so because of the office closing, I had to go in that day to get bloodwork done. I went over my lunch break. After drawing the blood, they told me it was time for the ultrasound. What? Yes, they needed to do another ultrasound to check antral follicles in my ovaries. Wonderful. It's the first day of my period. I'm gushing blood and they want to stick something up my vagina and take a look around. How pleasant. Had I known they were going to do this I would have attempted to do a bit more grooming down there.

So I disrobe and sit on the table with a pad under me. The nurse practitioner comes in and does her thing. My left ovary is not cooperating so she has to push down on my abdomen to find it. I had some pretty bad cramps so this was not pleasant at all. Luckily it didn't take long at all and everything looked normal.

They called me that day with the results that everything looked normal.

So my next assignment is to track my cycle and start doing ovulation predictor strips. I have to pee on a stick every night until they show that I'm having an LH (luteinizing hormone) surge. It just so happens that tonight the pee stick came up positive. So now I have to go in to the dr. tomorrow morning to have more blood drawn. I don't know if I'm getting another ultrasound or not, but I've cleaned up the girlie bits in preparation just in case.

I'm running out of excuses with work. I keep telling my boss that I've got dr. appointments that I have to go to. I was sick a couple of weeks ago so that was a kind of good coincidence. But I wasn't that sick. If I have to go to many more appointments I might need to reassure my boss that I'm a. not dying, and b. not looking for another job.