Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Why now?!

I went to bed last night feeling like I might be coming down with something - a little sweaty, a little chilly, off and on. In short, chills. I was so disappointed but tried the "mind over matter" approach by telling myself that I was NOT getting sick - bad timing, not gonna happen. I downed a glass of water, took a tylenol, warmed up my heating pad, and took some pepto bismol to combat some nausea, then fell asleep for a bit --- and then, the battle of waking up every few hours ensued, the last of which was 6am when I retreated to the bathroom to sit on the side of the tub by the toilet. Thankfully, nothing happened but after about an hour, I did take some more pepto bismol and slept a bit on the couch, the faithful trash can by my side. And with this nausea has come heart palpitations and a headache - I am on hormone overload because I am due to ovulate any day now, maybe even today. {For some reason, whenever I have an upset stomach or cramps, I get heart palpitations. I don't know why, I just do. The docs think it's my heart's way of dealing with things now, and will hopefully lessen with time but may never go away completely either --- the same happens if I have any alcohol, which isn't often but it happens. They think I will be battling it during my pregnancy too and thankfully, if it gets too annoying, they can give me some meds to help.}

Why?! Why now?! Why couldn't I get this whatever it is next week or the week after? I've looked online for any thoughts on being sick while TTC and of course, there is no for sure answer. The sites all agree that a fever could affect conception chances (which I don't have) because it could mess with hormones and affect ovulation and they all agree to stick with tylenol to deal with any discomfort, but no other conclusive information on the subject is available. It all seems to depend on the person and the situation. I am hopeful that because my bug is only slight, that all will go on as planned so we can at least have a chance this month after all I've done with my diet and meds and such to get to this point but I suppose we'll know if I ovulated or not on cycle day 21 (next Wednesday) when they do a blood draw to test my progesterone level.

Please send good thoughts our way!! I don't want to be down and out before we even have a chance...

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