so, it is a blessing and a hazard to work in the department where i am receiving some of my medical treatments. i have an appointment with my regular ob/gyn tomorrow, whom i have been seeing for years. in an effort to give her as much info about me as possible, i logged into my medical records … the results for my AMH levels were there. little did i know that AMH is a marker for ovarian reserve, and in conjunction with the other tests basically says how many eggs i might have left. the normal range from AMH is 0.9-9.something. my AMH level is 0.5. i can’t stop crying. i hope it is not the doomsday message that i think it is. 
super sad July 25, 2011
two lines July 25, 2011
surge day! it appears i am making eggs and setting them free as i am supposed to be…blood draw next saturday to make sure. 
this is the last hurdle to knowing where my fertility stands. kind of exciting, kind of scary.
mittelschmerz July 23, 2011
so, i am either super “in tune” with what’s going on or i am starting to lose my mind over all of this monitoring and paying attention to every little sensation that i have been doing. i was up last night in the middle of the night buying concert tickets for a show that just happens to be in europe while i am going to be there for work in about 6 weeks. i was having a hard time falling back to sleep, and as it seems to work for me now, i was starting to get a little tenderness/achy feeling around the time that i ovulate. as i was lying in bed, i had a little bit of increasing pain and i swear it was as if i could feel the follicle being set free. after a few minutes i felt much better and promptly fell asleep. real, or imagined?
two lines July 22, 2011
surge day! it appears i am making eggs and setting them free as i am supposed to be…blood draw next saturday to make sure. this is the last hurdle to knowing where my fertility stands. kind of exciting, kind of scary.
hsg July 19, 2011
and this gets a little more real every day…i had a test today to look at my inside “junk” and it passed!! now it’s just a matter of making sure i ovulate and picking the donor and i am ready to go.
no line July 18, 2011
i peed on what was the first of potentially many ovulation predictor test sticks today. there was no line of any kind, not a faint one, a dark one, or more than one. this could be a challenge.
introducing the OP July 17, 2011
it’s been a long while since i’ve even visited this site, much less posting anything….partly because blogging about my running wasn’t improving my running and i honestly just get bored with sitting in front of the computer. so, after perusing a few old posts and not being any more interested in them than i was two years ago, i deleted them.
while i still run here and there and enjoy doing it (mostly) i am embarking on a much more exciting and challenging adventure. i have decided i am going to try to become a mom! i am excited and terrified.
