On Pins & Needles

Last month we did a CD3 FSH just for the hell of it. I now wonder if it was a wise thing to do. The blood work was taken in May, not even a month after my whopper of an ovarian cyst was last seen on ultrasound.

So my E2 came in at 63 (ouch) and FSH at 9.8. Both high. Both making me quite nervous.

J said that maybe the cyst was still causing E2 to be elevated, but honestly I don't think that it would cause THAT MUCH of an elevation. In January my E2 was at 24, lowest it's ever been. I did my antibiotic treatments with Dr. Hungarian in December and January. Could that have caused a change in FSH/E2? Dr. Hungarian would likely argue that, yes, it does affect hormone levels. He argues antibiotics as the course of action for just about every malady under the sun. I was also 23 pounds heavier in January. Fat produces estrogen. I lost fat, and you'd think I'd lose a source of my excess estrogen, but instead E2 ROSE. I'm not quite getting it at any rate.

With AF's appearance on Saturday we did a new CD2 FSH and E2. We don't yet have the results in, but if E2 is still elevated, or if it's gone yet higher than 63, I am going to burst a neuron. Dr. B used to say that, "When the FSH is above 12 and E2 is above 50, the cycle won't work." So...what to do?

Tomorrow is my phone call with Dr. Generous to talk about this cycle and what we'll be doing. Or not doing. As always, I'm nervous. Wanting the green light, yet afraid to get it as it means needles and more needles. Ugh.