My first ultrasound in over a year

First off, Lowly had a great comment on my last post. She said she wished we could be hooked up to computers for a diagnosis, like they do with cars. Could you imagine? Plug us in and print out a report! Along those same lines, I'd also like to be one of Dr. House's patients. He'd have me fertile by the end of the hour, but not before temporarily misdiagnosing me with MS. I'm sure there'd also be some hallucinations involved.

So I had an ultrasound done today. Since my doctor's office is a good hour and a half away (without traffic), I had to get it done around here, at a local hospital. The technician seemed like she'd been doing it for a while, so I started asking some questions to see how much she'd share. She told me my left side looked normal and that my right ovary was "plump" and that if I haven't ovulated already that I probably would be soon. So I tried to pry out of her if my ovaries looked pretty average, and I told her how my ovaries had been huge and filled with endometriomas before my surgery, and she said that they looked great now.

Okay, I KNOW that this doesn't mean my ovaries are okay. Not by a long shot. Adhesions don't even show up on ultrasound so they can't be ruled out. And this woman may have seen a cyst and didn't want to tell me. Or how about the fact that she wasn't trained in Napro or even working in an office that sees infertile patients. No, I'll have to wait until my appointment next week to see what Dr. B thinks of it. And even then, if everything looks normal to him, I'm still having pain and something is causing it. Adhesions would be looking more and more likely at that point. A third sugery is probably in my future.

On the bright side, my right ovary apparently is/was ovulating. That's good! And, when it's all said and done, my right ovary may hold the keys to conception. It wasn't nearly as bad as my left one was in my endometriosis days, and I don't have pain there now. Well, tonight I have pain all over, but I don't usually have pain there.

Speaking of pain, the ultrasound left me wincing! I've had pain for most of the day ever since having it done. Another sign of adhesions, perhaps?

So this post wouldn't be complete without me listing off some new symptoms. For starters, I've taken naps the last three days. That is very unlike me. And this morning I was surprisingly full of energy, until this afternoon, when all of a sudden I felt like I had no choice but to lay down and then I was out. And it's not a lazy thing, or a bored thing, at all. It's seriously like I have no choice and I hate it!

Also, I don't know if this means anything or not, but my pre-peak temps lately have been pretty high. Like 98.0 and 98.1. Granted, I haven't been taking it religiously this month, but that's what it is when I do take it. And they're normally around 97.6-97.8 pre-peak. I'll be interested to see what it goes to after ovulation.

So I got all ready to go the movies tonight, but my dear husband was too busy breaking news in the other room. Ahh, the life of a reporter's wife. He wasn't even on the clock, but his political blog is like his crack. And I guess there's some election tomorrow and he uncovered some big news (not big enough for the actual t.v. news, mind you, but it's apparently blowing up on twitter. Just kidding, honey.) Yes, there's another woman in our lives and it's a wordpress blog.