One Little Blood Test

26 October 2010

So, on my way home this morning, I had to stop in at the clinic to pick up some more meds, and I decided to ask my nurse if she had a minute to sit down and talk to me. I told her how concerned I was about the lack of communication back from the RE and that it just wasn't sitting well with me wondering if he would have upped my dosage or not. I made it clear that just being left in the lurch like this was not OK.

She was reassuring and said not to stress, she firmly believes that I am responding better than the first ultrasound indicated, and just thinks I'm just off to a slow start indicated by the initial estradiol level being a bit low. Staying the course on the same dose is fine in these circumstances because there is still time for adjustments to be made if need be.

She said they haven't been able to be in touch with the RE either, so it's not that he is ignoring me. Right now the decisions are being made by the replacement doctor and we can't change that.

Then she had a bright idea. She offered to run an estradiol on me and get the results back to me later today. At least that would give me some reassurance that follicular development is taking place my ovaries, even if I have to wait until Thursday for an ultrasound to find out exactly how many. Thank you!

We trucked off to the lab across the road, to have the stat order blood work done. I got the call back from her a couple of hours later just as I was getting home and unpacking the car. E2 is 1465 -right on track, so there is definitely something happening in there. Breathe out.

It's amazing how something as simple as a little blood test can make all the difference.