So much for that

The $66 birth control isn't doing it's job, so back to El Cheapo I go.  Frankly, the morale boost is amazing.  I don't know why it makes me so cheerful; birth control is birth control.  I guess I resented shelling out the money more than I thought.  My pharmacy was very nice and refunded the money I paid for the two unopened packs I had left.  I wasn't expecting the answer to be yes when I asked but sometimes living in a small town and being nice to the people who wait on you helps.

What was NOT morale boosting, however, was the call to the clinic.  "Well when's your IVF?" asked Nurse Helpful.  "Uh, we are doing an FET with donor embryos and we don't even have embryos yet so who knows?" I replied.  "Could be June, could be next year some time."  There was a significant pause on the other end of the line.  I've only been a patient there a few months, I don't think they expected this level of cynical.  "Well, you need to take a week's break before you switch and that can't happen around your FET." she explained.  "So the earliest you'd be able to cycle is June.  If you get embryos tomorrow, you'll have to wait a month."  I felt like laughing at the idea that we'd get embryos tomorrow or that four more weeks of waiting would even make a dent.  After five years, what's another four weeks?

I'm not thrilled with taking a week off of bcps mainly because I am a whiny little baby who is going to have to have a peeeeriooood.  Waaah!  It'll be my first official period since the surgery.  My periods were HORRIBLE before the surgery and I'm not expecting that too much has changed.  Sure, Jimmy and the Goodpolyps are all gone so I guess that'll help.  But the cramps that make me feel like my midsection is on fire?  The backache that feels like an army of demented squirrels are chiseling their way out of my pelvis with tiny hammers and awls?  The nausea?  The diarrhea?  I don't expect any of that to have gone anywhere. 

I warned my job in general sort of way that I was switching meds and would probably feel horrible.  I have a professional conference on Thursday of this week so I'm hoping the worst will be over by then.  More concerning to me is the fact that I'm going change ringing for the first time on Tuesday night and I really, really do not want to miss that. 

At least now I know: cheap or bust.  My body is not designed for the finer things. 

Comments

[jesspond]

I hope it IS June! :)

[daysgoby]

I'm hoping for June too, and a quiet week for you. And maybe now that Jimmy and The Goodpolyps (snort!brilliant! )are gone, MAYBE your body will be gentle with you ...

[Rachel Inbar]

Sorry your wait is so up-in-the-air :-(

The change ringing sounds really interesting! Enjoy! I hope your period isn't as bad as you expect it to be.

[daysgoby]

And I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to have you as a roommate too. Soon, okay? You're on the list of bloggers I want to meet someday!

[andrea_jennine]

You're too funny! The description of the backache - priceless! And the concluding statement that your body isn't meant for the finer things... you make me giggle.

Oh, and change ringing? How cool! I admit, I have a totally romanticized view of it from The Nine Tailors by Dorothy Sayers. Mmmm, Lord Peter Wimsey. Just don't go killing anyone with your bells, okay? Not even accidentally.

[Mel Piglet]

My German neighbor gave me Dolormin (fur Frauen bei Menstruationsbeschwerden) for periods.
Winner!
Why the long wait for eggs?
Wish I could give you mine but they might not last in the mail apart from being old and vrot.

[thalia]

good for you for telling the nurse what-for.

I hope the wait is short and the period a vast improvement on those before your surgery.