Wow thanks for all the great replies
Ok answers to some questions:
I am trying to lose weight, but not very hard! I'm 1.82m tall and about 75kg, so I'm in the healthy weight range, though I'd like to lose about 5kgs. Not over-exercising though!
I've been having weekly acupuncture for 10 months!!! It's to help me de-stress but mainly to try and sort my cycles. I'm one of those non-textbook cases though... my AP guy is awesome, has a very good reputation... it just hasn't worked yet! I'm also now seeing a medical herbalist too who also specialises in this area.
I've pretty much had all the blood tests done, as well as ultrasounds etc and the only abnormal thing is my hormone levels are all really low. No thyroid problems.
I saw an FS about a year ago and he was more focussed on the 'we can get you pg with FSH injections' idea rather than 'here's how to fix your cycles' - which is fair enough I guess, after all that's his job. And at that stage I was sure AF would return soon enough (this was before i started all the eastern therapy).
Good advice though - I think I'll give it another 3 months with the new herbal mix, and by then I'll be much closer to finishing my thesis (and much closer to getting rid of my main cause of stress). Until then I don't think it would be a good idea to get even more stressed out with more doctors and tests and poking and prodding! Plus as much as all this waiting is killing me, we did decide that we didn't want a bub until maybe early 09 - but that does mean we'll need to fall pg in the second half of this year!! So I guess if we wait til around the end of June then see a GP/gyno/FS again...
I think the whole issue is the not-knowing! It really gets to you after a while. Not to say that a diagnosis is really much easier, but it would just be nice to know what the problem is!!
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