Pregnancy Test

(Wednesday, January 12, 2005) -- Today I went to the PVH lab to get my blood drawn - Quantitative HCG (pregnancy test), then to Dr. B office for an ultrasound (U/S) to check for cysts. If there are any of significant size, they could not go ahead with the procedure. If the cyst lasts for several months, they would drain it.

They saw a large corpus luteum (I think that's what they called it), which just means that there was a void left by the egg that ovulated this month - proves to them, I guess, that I ovulated on my own - no HCG shot. Dr. B wasn't concerned about it.

They gave me my prescriptions - 9 of them in all!! The pharmacy didn't have all of them as the Dr. expected. They can get them, though and should have them in the next several days. I did get the birth control pills that I will start tomorrow. We had to get the brand name and the pharmacy closest to us was out, so we had to run to another store.

This weekend both of us will take Zithromax - a very strong antibiotic. I guess we have to take it at the same time. It doesn't matter exactly when we take it, we just have to take it early enough in case I get a yeast infection from it. Gives them time to treat that before the fertility meds.