Clotting problem?

Recently I have seemed to be bruising so much easier than normal. I have always come home with bruises and not sure how it has happened, but recently this has worsened.

I told me RE and he said I should get checked for thrombophilia and clotting disorders. Whilst waiting for the results I have had acupuncture. Well, I woke up the following day with the biggest bruise ever where one of the needles were, I could not believe it. I have taken pictures on my phone it is so large!

I called my doctors today for my results and told 'all normal'. How can that be? I do not want to give myself another life long disease, but I would like an answer! This bruising is not normal, my DH and friends all agree, so why cant my doctors?! I am worried this may affect implantation and my IVF

My cyst has shrunk....

... to 12mm!! I am so pleased as it is small enough for the clinic to not be concerned!!

Today has been great: Cyst shrunk, got my blood taken for thrombophilia and got a dress for xmas party that makes me look slim!!

Now off to acupuncture and then work.

This is the hapiest I have felt in a while

I hope my cyst has gone

I am going to my clinic tomorrow morning to have a scan to see if my cyst has gone on my left ovary. I have been bleeding on and off for the last two weeks despite being on the pill. It has now stopped, which I hope is a good sign?

If the cyst is still there I will have to have it aspirated. I hope it does not delay my IVF as my injections are due to start the 27th Dec. (OMG, it is so soon!!)

I am also having a blood test for thrombophilia tomorrow as I bruise so easily and bleed a lot. After that I am having acupuncture and then off to work. An action packed day!!

As far as how I am feeling..... I am both nervous and excited about my IVF, hopeful and fearful. I do not know what we will do if this does not work....

I am back from NYC!

I had an amzing time in NYC. Was so cold and so busy but I loved it. We managed to see all the sights and walk the whole length of NYC in 2 1/2 days! We also saw Chicago on Broadway which was brilliant!

We did not want to come back. I could easily stay in NYC forever!

Here are a few photo's of our time in NYC, looking v cold!

Off to New York!!

I am due to fly out early Sunday morning to New York!! I can not wait. I hope this trip is amazing and all we have hoped for.
There are a few problems, mainly the weather over here. The snow has been terrible, I have been snowed in for 2 days! The airports have been closed and no taxi's will pick us up to take us to the airport. I really hope the snow goes so we can fly!

On a side note, I had my AF visit last week (last before IVF) and that was fine, painful like normal but nothing new. It all finished and now for the last 3 days I have been bleeding. Now is TMI: It is brown, watery bleed. Like I had during my FET. I am thinking from my cyst again? I am hoping not, as I have hoped that being on the pill has got rid of my cyst? I am now worried that the cyst is not gone.

Frustrated!

I have a bit of a rant about my clinic and GP.

My RE said I have to hve a thrombophilia and blood clotting blood test, the clinic cant do it and if they did would have to charge me, but I am a nhs patient. I was told to go to my GP. I asked them to send a request to my GP as they would not do it without. Clinic said they would. I went to the GP's this morning for bloods and the nurse refused as they 'do not do private requests'. I could not believe it, one it is becuase I bruise easily and bleed heavily, and two it is not a private request, I am an nhs patient!
I called the clinic, they said they will have to check the notes and get back to me. I now need a blood request form and to go to the hospital for it, my GP will not do it!! I am not sure if the clinic will give me a blood request form.

I may have to pay for it if I can not get it sorted! I really need this before I start my IVF at the end of the month!!
Sorry about the irratic rant!! I am starting to lose hope with the clinic, with my IVF chances and now feel even more down.

There seems o be a few BFP's in the IF world at the mo which is such great news, I am so pleased and it gives me hope. It does also make me wonder if it will ever be me.....?

Been meaning to write for a while...

.... but nothing has been happening. Nothing to write about.

I am struggling through work, it is still shit, I still hate it and want to leave. I am having more pressure and work put on me all the time and I am worried that I am not coping now, what will I be like in January when I go through my IVF again? I want everything to be right, I want to be stress free, (ha ha like that will ever happen!) I want this to work.

I did do something that was brave for me yesterday and that was baby shop. I am going to a baby shower on christmas eve and I had to get a few bits. The baby shower will be hard, but it is for my co-worker who had a miscarriage at the beginning of the year and is pregnant again. She knows a little of my IVF and had a rough journey herself so I am just about dealing with her pregancy. I managed to get all I needed in the baby shops without crying, sweating or running out empty handed. I think what helped is that I cried before I went shopping. Sounds silly but I got it out of my system! I cried as I am dreading Christmas. Yet another holiday not pregnant, without a baby or a family. Why is it the holidays are always the hardest?