Monday, May 21, 2007
I had to prep for this one. They are going to weigh me and make me pee in a cup. I need concentrated urine just in case they do a pregnancy test. Ok light breakfast and no peeing or drinking after 10 am. My appointment is at 2:30.Do you know how hard it is to take a shower when you need to pee? Fun times.The doctor's office staff was very nice. Dr S had to run out for a delivery. Luckily his office is in the medical building that is connected to the hospital. He was back pretty quick. I peed, bleed, and weighed. I'm being very nice to the lab person since she'll be taking my blood a lot.They decided to try an ultra sound even though I was only exactly 4 weeks pregnant. The tech said it was probably too early to see anything but while we were waiting for the Doctor to come back, we might as have a look-see.She didn't find anything in my uterus as expected but she did find a cyst on each ovary. A cyst is normal as it controls the progesterone hormone that is needed to sustain the pregancy until the placenta develops around 6 weeks. The placenta takes over then and the cyst goes away.The tech stumbled a bit explaining the two cysts. Maybe one cyst was just left over from the month before. Could be. Yeah that's a reasonable explaination.OR, it could be that both ovaries ovulated. That would be two eggs coming out to play with the sperm. Yeah, that could/would be twins.We'll have to wait and see. It's too early to speculate about anything. Even if the pregnancy is a good one. At my age the miscarriage rate is 1 in every 3 pregnancies.Some of the blood that they took is to measure the pregnancy hormone hcg and progesterone. The progesterone needs to be over 20 to sustain the pregnancy. The hcg needs to double the next time I have it drawn. Waiting...
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