Second Opinion

Finally after a three months with out a period (if I wasn't trying to get pregnant I would look at this as a blessing!) I decided to talk to my Doctor. I had only been going to this doctor for about six months. I told her my symptoms and my worries about trying to get pregnant she immediately told me to start exercising and call her when I got my next period and Brian and I would come in to her clinic two weeks later and she would inseminate us. (The not so technical description is when they take sperm and take a baster and shoot it up me so that the sperm don't have as far to swim) I went home and talked to Brian about this and we where both a little hesitant since she didn't do any tests or anything. We felt it was a ploy for her clinic to make some fast cash since infertility treatment is NOT cheap! We decided to go with our gut (which I finally have deicded that my gut is never wrong) told my doctor that we where going to get another opinion. I had done tons of research on infertility doctors in the area and decide to go to one in St. Cloud. Dr. Kroska. (Just a quick funny story about him...) I was laying on the bed with my feet up in the stirrups. As you all know the doctors try to make small talk with you, like its not already weird enough. He starts asking me where I work and so I tell him. STRIDE Academy, sure enough he says, "oh I have 3 children that go to school there!" Luckily he couldn't see my face because I know that I turned 10 different shades of red. Well needless to say the next time he came to the school to pick up his children it was a bit awkward! Maybe I should have picked the doctor in Big Lake! :) Back to the story! I met with their nurse and she ran some blood work, asked great questions, gave us a doctors name down at the University of MN to get Brian checked out while we where waiting on my results. Since there is only a few things that could be wrong with the woman and many of things that could be wrong with a man. In the mean time my blood work and test results came back and I was officially diagnosed with Poly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome,(PCOS) in layman's terms I have cysts on my ovaries that make it almost impossible to ovulate. You usually find this out when you get off of birth control since that is one of the things that they use to keep it under control. Knowing that I was trying to get pregnant the prescribed me a medication called Metforman. I like to think of this as the magic drug... one of the side effects is weight loss, what a terrible side effect! This was seeming to work wonderfully so the nurse told us to start trying again and come back in 3 months, which we will find out later that in the medical world or at least the reproductive world 3 months is the magic number. Doctor Kroska called and said that she would like to have Brian's sperm counted so we could rule that out. We where off to the Urologist down at the U to see Dr. Pryor and let me tell you trying to get in with one of the top Urologists in MN is a long wait. Luckily for us it was only a two month wait. (again, once you have your mind set on getting pregnant 2 months seem like an eternity!) After our first of many visits with Dr. Pryor he said that Brian had a vericose vein in his left testicle that was heating up his sperm and killing it off. (Technically called a Vericosele) But with a very simple surgery it can be fixed and we should be back on the baby making road!