Week 1 Down!

Yesterday, still wasn't a likely ovulation day.  So far, with all these cups, strips, etc. I've started to wonder what it's like to have fertility problems.  I mean we're just getting started and already I'm getting anxious to see a possible LH surge on the test results  and even more anxious to see a positive result on a pregnancy test.  What do I have to worry about though right?  I'm fairly young and healthy.  I think my main fertility concerns come from three places.  The first place is the pharmacy.  I worked in a grocery store pharmacy for years and, believe it or not, there are just as many younger women as older women on fertility treatments.  The second concern comes from one of the reasons why that might be.  I've been seeing articles on harful chemical substances that are being linked to infertility, childhood disorders, and a horrid amount of other health problems since the beginning if my research.  I'm not sure if it has to do with growing media awareness or just the current fad of going "green," but I'm seeing more and more articles being published on this problem.  So, I worry about things that I never used to worry about; like drinking out of plastic water bottles.  The third concern about my own fertility has to do with my thyroid.  For a long time I just seemed to be tired all of the time.  I never really noticed it, but I'd be with a family members and say "wow I'm tired" and I'd get 'you're always tired' as a response.  Well, beginning this past April, I stopped my birth control and started prenatal vitamins in preparation for babytime and at night and first thing in the morning I started noticing this bruised feeling in my right temple.  My husband took a look and said the vein there was swollen looking.  It was so wierd.  I would only have pain when I put pressure on the area but the vision in my right eye got slightly worse. So, I just made an appointment with my primary care physician and waited the week it took me to get in.  By the time I saw her 2 weeks had passed.  She said it looked like temporal arteritis, but that temporal arteritis usually only occurs in much, much, older people (like 60 year olds).  She warned me that this condition can affect my vision and even cause blindness if not treated!  So, I was told not to start trying for a baby until we figured it out and put on steroids while we waited for the results of my bloodwork.  The results showed hypothyroidism.  She said it was really good we caught the hypothyroidism.  This is what was causing my tiredness all the time.  This condition could also have caused me the inability to get pregnant.  So, right now, at the end of my first week and beginning of my second, those are my main concerns. Well, those are my main concerns other than getting this site choc-full-o' info for you!

-Jessy