Second round of blood work/Good news

I received a script in the mail from Dr. L to get another trough level of the Lamotrigine done. I guess now that I've been on it for several months, she wants to still make sure that I'm feeling okay. I get it.

Also, I never thought I would be this excited about insurance - ever - but my new insurance from my job kicks in tomorrow!! I feel like I want to dance! This new insurance takes my medication from $336 to $8. I practically squee'd with joy when my HR guy told me it had gone through.

It is just in time too. I need to refill my Lamotrigine ER in the next few days.

Anyway, I'm tired. Night everyone! 

Back to reality...

I'm going back to work today after vacation. To be totally honest, I'm ready. Vacation was great, relaxing and the kids were adorable, but by the time we were heading home I was definitely ready to go. 

The entire time we just hung out by the pool and the beach, playing with the kids. Everyone truthfully turned off their work emails and phones and walked away for the week. Sometimes, it can be very difficult for people to do that. I was excited that our group was able to do it for an entire week (we went with two other couples and a total of three kids).

However, since we got back, I haven't been feeling that great. I'm exhausted and food really isn't sitting with me. The last thing I need right now is too be coming down with something.

Today, I'm getting my blood work done for Dr. S. Maybe he will have some insight on what the heck my body is doing.

CD 46

I'm still on vacation (I will post about it when I get home) and I've been getting cramping for the past couple of days. Still no sign AF.

My blood test is on Tuesday. It will CD 51 by the time I get it.

I'm wondering if he is going to do additional testing to see if everything else is normal because of my history.

Anyway, going back to vacation... Have a great night, guys :)

And so it begins...

I called Dr. S's office yesterday. He told me to call if I hadn't gotten AF by CD 40. That would be today and she has no intention of showing up. Hasn't even crossed her mind.

They called me back today and ordered some blood work for me (a blood preg test - even though I got a negative HPT (home pregnancy test).

If (more like, when) it comes back negative, then they are going to start me on something to induce AF. From what I could find online, it looks like it would something called Provera and I'd be taking that for 5 or 10 days depending on the dosage. 

I'm not upset at all. This is completely what I expected to happen. Hopefully, I won't have to use it every month though. We shall see.

Rambling

A week from tomorrow we leave for the Outer Banks!! I'm really excited :)

I feel sorta bad that I'm taking vacation 3 weeks into my new job, but we had this booked way, way in advance. It'll be nice to get away with some friends for a while.

The job is going really well. It's very interesting and keeps me motivated and busy.

The past week was a little weird for me. Last Thursday, I got horrible, horrible food poisoning. Like, think flu-type reaction food poisoning. I couldn't stop throwing up and my muscles hurt and I was having shooting pains up my arms and legs from dehydration.

Wednesday was really the first day where I ate and didn't feel immediately sick.

I'm so ready for the weekend now. I am excited to sleep in tomorrow and try and get some cleaning done.

Not much else is going on. Still waiting on AF. I'm at CD 33 now. Only 6 more days before I can call Dr. S and say, "I told you so."

More Changes

Sorry I haven't posted in so long.

I'm nearing CD 27 in 45 minutes and my body hasn't even begin to think about AF. I'm not in the least bit surprised. Not even a little. In fact, I think I'd be more surprised if AF did show.

I've had a lot of changes recently. I accepted a job in my field and left my retail store. Instead of working 3-11pm, I'm there 8-5pm and have weekends off. I actually get to spend time with Dave. That is super important and an amazing feeling. However, this job also requires me to get up at 6:30am and my body doesn't understand yet that I will be getting up this early for a very, very long time. It's getting easier and every day I go in, I realize that this kind of work is in which for I was meant (I absolutely refuse to end a sentence in a preposition - even if it makes me sound ridiculous).

I think I'm coming off Dave's insurance and switching to my company's insurance. The prescription plan would lower my cost of Lamotrigine to ... are you ready for this? ... $8.

I FREAKED OUT. I cannot believe that our current insurance company has the audacity to charge us over $600 for it and other companies negotiated such a low price... I'm stopping myself here.

Anyway, just wanted to keep you "posted." I'll have more things to update in a few days.