Feeling Sick in South Lake Tahoe
Am I on Vacation?
J and I are in South Lake Tahoe for four nights and five days. We are here with another couple and their two sons (3 years old and 15 months old) which is our first trip with them and their children. In the past we've done other snowboard trips with them, pre children, so this trip is a challenge in a few different ways which I'm sure I don't need to go into.
My stomach has been so bad since coming off of the clindamycin IV that I just don't have it in me to get out and snowboard. I feel okay in the morning, but it seems that I get severe cramping after dinner and my stomach feels that it's quite bloated or distended. I hope that I haven't contracted a secondary infection from the massive antibiotic ingestion. The chest pain from the PICC line removal is still here but only when I exert myself. Clearly the medicine irritated my heart. I just pray that this passes. It really freaks me out to think that my heart has literally been affected by this. I had scarlett fever as a child and I'm already at risk for heart weaknesses...and this might be enough to really push it in the wrong direction.
So I emailed Dr. Hungarian to tell him how I've been feeling with the nasty GI symptoms and he said I could cut my flagyl dosaging in half. So I've gone from 1.5g a day, to 750mg a day with a florastor/immodium chaser. Oddly, just last night he emailed me and told me to stop taking the flagyl a full month before I "get pregnant". As if I could predict when that would be. You know? I'd have to be literally guessing to know when that day might be, but I figure I'll start with knowing that my retrieval is slated for the week or March 4th, transfer three or four days out from then, and implantation 7 days after that. Extrapolating backwards...hopefully I'll have a pretty good idea of when to "cease" my flagyl.
Another odd thing that has happened is that yesterday I started spotting bright red. Not quite enough to break out the winged pads, but enough that something is up. I recall "breakthrough bleeding" is something that happens with BCPs, so perhaps that is what is happening. Dr. Pompy's nurse said that I should "expect a period" about February 17th. So I will have three episodes within a single 30 day span. Lovely. Just lovely. It's just that I don't recall having had breakthrough bleeding with IVF#1 and IVF#2.
Maybe I did and I just need to go back and reread my own blogposts.
My stomach has been so bad since coming off of the clindamycin IV that I just don't have it in me to get out and snowboard. I feel okay in the morning, but it seems that I get severe cramping after dinner and my stomach feels that it's quite bloated or distended. I hope that I haven't contracted a secondary infection from the massive antibiotic ingestion. The chest pain from the PICC line removal is still here but only when I exert myself. Clearly the medicine irritated my heart. I just pray that this passes. It really freaks me out to think that my heart has literally been affected by this. I had scarlett fever as a child and I'm already at risk for heart weaknesses...and this might be enough to really push it in the wrong direction.
So I emailed Dr. Hungarian to tell him how I've been feeling with the nasty GI symptoms and he said I could cut my flagyl dosaging in half. So I've gone from 1.5g a day, to 750mg a day with a florastor/immodium chaser. Oddly, just last night he emailed me and told me to stop taking the flagyl a full month before I "get pregnant". As if I could predict when that would be. You know? I'd have to be literally guessing to know when that day might be, but I figure I'll start with knowing that my retrieval is slated for the week or March 4th, transfer three or four days out from then, and implantation 7 days after that. Extrapolating backwards...hopefully I'll have a pretty good idea of when to "cease" my flagyl.
Another odd thing that has happened is that yesterday I started spotting bright red. Not quite enough to break out the winged pads, but enough that something is up. I recall "breakthrough bleeding" is something that happens with BCPs, so perhaps that is what is happening. Dr. Pompy's nurse said that I should "expect a period" about February 17th. So I will have three episodes within a single 30 day span. Lovely. Just lovely. It's just that I don't recall having had breakthrough bleeding with IVF#1 and IVF#2.
Maybe I did and I just need to go back and reread my own blogposts.
Labels: IVF3 Take 1
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