UNfortunately BW, that seems to happen so often (based on my own experience and what Ive heard in here). The nurses always seem reluctant to give you any information at all - which is really bad. Perhaps some people dont want to know - me, I want to know everything!
Two things to keep in mind - you are the customer, you are paying them so you have the right to ask any questions you want and expect a good and accurate answer.
Second thing is - if you dont feel confident with them, get a second opinion and sooner rather than later. I speak from experience here and wish I had have done so sooner.
But in saying all that - in my first cycle I had no idea what to ask and really was just so hopeful it would all work I was just focusing on that.
Im sure I havent even remotely answered your question BW! Sorry, think Ive been rambling and not making any sense.
I think often enough that even if you do discuss it with your options many of the clinics will do it the way they want anyway. Unless you stand on your chair and scream and cry!
I guess all this is stemming from our little false start last week.
When the clinic rang me with results they just said "your levels are too high and you need to come in for a scan".
As I was at work, in the middle of a crowded staff room, I didn't really want to ask much then and there. However, I'm still left wondering now - level of what? and how high was it? I guess I should have asked that when I got in to the clinic the next morning.
The scan discovered a follicle on one ovary and I was then told "we'll give you an injection to get rid of it". Fortunately, I'd done enough reading to realise that I was being given a trigger shot, and the means of getting rid of that follicle was to make me ovulate.
The next bit realy bugs me... I'm starting to feel like the nurses stand between me and my doctor and in some ways prevent me asking questions that probably only he can answer. The nurse was talking about restarting synarel, or trying lucrin instead. The nurse left to chat to my doctor and then came back with the instruction of twice the original dose of synarel... I really wanted to know the advantages and disadvantages of the synarel/lucrin decision - but all the nurse would tell me was that it was my doctor's decision - with heavy undertones of "this is what he has decided so this is what you shall do, and you will not question it!". The only thing that helped me with the synarel the first time was my weekly acupuncture appointments where she would needle my face to help clear the gunk out of my sinuses... That was when I was having one squirt morning and night and I could alternate nostrils. Now I'll be having two squirts morning and night and I'm left wondering whether the build up of snot that I know I'll get (and can probably count on it being worse this time) will prevent me from absorbing enough of the synarel. I half suspect that this may have been the problem first time round - I'm often quite congested normally just through general hayfever issues.
I think I'm just ranting now. I go back to the clinic on Tuesday morning for another blood test to see if I can start the synarel again. Unfortunately, I'm in at 7am, and my doctor doesn't start until 9:30am, so even if I do want to push the synarel/lucrin thing, I doubt I'll get any answers!
I know my whole issue with the nurses arises from the breakthrough bleed I had while on the pill - they told me not to worry about it, just ignore it and all would be well. My brain was screaming at me "It's been over 100 days since last AF, if my body wants to bleed, I should stop the pill and let it do it properly and then restart". I followed the nurses advice like a good little girl and things just kept getting worse and worse... Eventually I hit the point where I had a complete freak out at a friend who is a gyn reg - who did confirm that I should have stopped taking the pill when it first started, and continuing to take it made things worse. It got to the point where I was waking up in a pool of blood and the blood loss had got so bad I nearly needed to be hospitalised, and it wasn't until I got some advice from my friend that I realised I really needed to yell and scream at the clinic to get someone to take it seriously.
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