Let's Usher in the New Year with some Good Ol' MTHFR

Comcast was down for 4 days prior so today is a day of extreme catching up. Over 250 emails came pouring into my outlook inbox and it took the better part of the day to sort it all out. Oh how I would love a big juicy red to sink my teeth into right about now. But no....we're being "good". For as long as possible.

So my last test results FINALLY came in today. Health Line did the venipuncture for my MTHFR test on 12/16/5...after having botched the first test on 12/6/5 when they didn't draw enough blood and then to top it off, their main lab didn't bother to tell anyone about it. So a week went by and no test showed up. Lucky for me I've got the investigatory gene and the gripe gene and I figured out that something was amiss.

So they agreed to "comp" this test...thank GOD. It would have been something like $650 and I can see Health Net having a major cow over this one. So after about a week of trying to wrangle the test results out of them.

HN: "Oh we faxed you the lab results..."

Me: "But you didn't put any both tests on the page and there's no data for the one that you did send."

HN: "But it's right there where it says Test: MTHFR C677T/1298C Genotypr"

Me: "No that is not the result. That is Specialty Labs telling you what test they are running."

HN: "So you are the patient?"

Me: "Yes."

HN: "Well we can't fax you the test results."

Me: "Then what am I looking at?"

As you can see, we didn't get very far. But they did agree to fax the results to Dr. Z's office (I should have told them my fax number just so I could get a copy of my own test results!). Dr. Z's office emailed about 4pm today to let me know they'd finally arrived. I do test positive for a mutated version of the A1298C allele, but it's not a nasty assed version, or even the dreaded double helping. But it does mean that I'll have to supplement with Folgard...no Lovenox for me. No sirree!!

Oh, also accomplished ordering most of my drugs today, with the exception of the Bravelle and progesterone in oil that will be coming by way of the International Pharmacy in Middlesex, U.K. I wasn't sure if I sure if I should use www.IVFMeds.com or the International Pharmacy, but Modern Millie seemed to have researched the latter to the point that I am going to trust her judgement on this one as she IS the WOman when it comes to this sort of thing.

I will be so relieved when all of my drugs are ordered and in my hands so it will be one less thing to worry about....besides the fact that Kaiser screwed up J's sperm cultures...ggggrr.....