Yep, I’ve been double-stickered.  Interestingly, the nasty metallic taste has been gone since the estrogen kicked in, so I guess the sucking-on-a-penny taste is just another DHEA side-effect.  Blech. Um, skin’s clearing up, and I don’t seem to be losing quite so much hair in the shower.  Which is a damned good thing.  Backache today, [...]

It occurs to me that it’s probably not particularly healthy for me to get so much of my information from the internets, but, you know?  It’s just so tempting to google “DHEA mood” and see what pops up.  Apparently the giddy good mood I’ve been enjoying for the last two months, (er, ever since I [...]

…that I should probably be fairly leery of my extraordinary run of happy-thoughts these days.  This isn’t like me.  I’ve been attributing it to finally having a dog again, and also to the ending of the miscarriage-misery (both physical and emotional).  But what if it’s the DHEA?  The DHEA that is currently messing with my [...]

…which is rather a new feeling for me.  Don’t know if it’s a result of the peace that comes with formalizing my long-term relationship; or if it’s from the general feeling of well-being that all these artificial hormones floating around in my body is inducing; or if it’s simply the joy of having a good [...]

Argh. Have I mentioned before how no matter how much I like my doctor, his receptionists aren’t the best or the brightest?  Received a phone message yesterday that my appointment today was getting pushed back because of all the transfers/retrievals, so could we reschedule?  Ok, that’s understandable; even I wouldn’t claim that my consultation appointment [...]

…and it looks like my cycle is back on track, which is a relief.  I’m planning on (listen up, Universe, and have yourself a good laugh) going to the World Fantasy Convention at the end of October, but I still wanted to start a new IVF cycle at the beginning of my next menstrual cycle. [...]

So, um, even though I haven’t yet stopped bleeding from the miscarriage, oh so many weeks ago, it seems to have kicked up a notch, back to what I would call “Normal Period” type bleeding. I’m thinking it might actually be a period. Since it would be right on schedule for me, give or take [...]

First off – Dog. Dog is good. Her name is Nellie – as in “Nervous Nellie” or possibly “Nosy Nellie”. She is, what could charitably be called, timid. Since my previous dog was so overly confident that she once jumped into a river. From a cliff. To rescue my husband. Who actually wasn’t drowning. Even [...]

Well. Not in so many words, but my doctor just basically said to me that Dr. Bigshot’s full of shit. Ok, so not really, I’m reading between the lines here, but he did express professional disagreement with Bigshot’s insta-diagnosis of “worst case of Adenomyosis I’ve ever seen.” My doctor thinks this bleeding is just the [...]