How it all started!

Hey everyone. Well, this is my first blog! For awhile I was considering doing youtube videos but the thought of seeing myself on camera made me nervous!!! =) So basically I will be talking a lot about pcos and my journey in trying to have a baby. My husband, Nick, and I got married on October 24th, 2009. We had discussed having children for a while before we got married and had basically became set that we would try to conceive starting in June of 2010. I had feelings in my head that it would not be easy for me to get pregnant because as long as I can remember I never had normal monthly cycles. I started birth control pills when I was 18 and stopped them about 4 months before I got married. Of course, being on b.c. pills I did have normal cycles but once I stopped them I had a cycle maybe once every two months. Before I got married I saw my gynecologist for my annual check up and told her about my concerns. She assured me they could get me pregnant if I wanted to be and they don't typically worry about irregular periods unless they are more then 3 months apart. Hearing her tell me they could get me pregnant did put my worries at ease. Once my husband and I got married we started talking more about having a baby and decided what was the point in waiting? So we started! I started doing research on how to track ovulation and went to Rite Aid and bought the ANSWER brand OPKs (Ovulation Predictor Kit) Basically all you have to do is pee in a little cup and dip the stick into the urine. The test has a control line and if your body is is having a LH surge the test line should be just as dark as the control line. LH is the type of hormone your body produces when you ovulate. Since my cycles were irregular I would often go through two boxes of the OPKs and never have a positive reading. For anyone interested in using OPKs I wouldn't recommend the ANSWER brand. Often times I had questionable readings, and the lines often looked similar in color to me even if I wasn't ovulating. I went on Amazon and bought OPKs in bulk! I got like 100 tests and 50 pregnancy tests for about $25...which is about the same price for one box of OPKs at any drug store or Target. Once I started tracking my ovulation I noticed my periods were becoming even further apart. I was having one maybe every 3 to 4 months. This was when I decided to make an appointment with another ob/gyn to talk about what was going on...