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Another update! (pg mentioned)From: Sonnet (anonymous@obgyn.net)Fri, 24 Jan 2003 22:19:30 -0600 (CST)
OK guys, me again! My new round of doctor appointments has begun! Like I said in a pervious post, seeing my endo was great. He's a good guy. Very knowledgeable too, and willing to really monitor my thyroid. The one thing that's a worry is that my hypothyroid was REALLY out of control until last week, and I'm almost out of my first trimester. Apparently that can cause serious mental birth defects in the baby. OOPS, HMO! Maybe you should have listened to me when I begged to see an endo for 2 months huh!!! Now we have to see a perinatologist to check on the likelihood and severity of possible birth defects, but fortunately I'm not too worried. We'll just have to see. ANYWAY, we saw an OB today. I am still "interviewing" OB's, and will see one I'm really excited about on the 30th. But this guys is covered 100% by my insurance, so that's a plus. The good news: we heard the heartbeat on the doppler! At only 10weeks6days, which is early, considering I weigh a LOT. So I was very pleasantly surprised. I also weighed in at 312, meaning I've lost 13lbs in the last 10 weeks. That sounds bad when you're pg, but really it's not - I am eating well and the baby is growing well, so it's a plus. Both good things to come away from the appointment with. Oh! And, they were scheduling a GTT for me in a couple of weeks (since I'm obviously high risk for GD) and I wasn't thrilled, but they said if I check my sugars (which I do anyway) I don't have to take it. Yay! The bad news: Both this OB and his nurse were sooooo fat-unfriendly, shall we say! Yikes! They were at least trying to be kind about it, but I've never had my weight so thrown in my face and so repeatedly, and so often told it was obviously not related to PCOS. When I first came in, and mentioned that I head heard weight loss was common in early pg for larger women, the nurse gave me a death look and said, after a silence, "Well, that's bcause when you're pregnant, you know you're eating for the baby too, and chubby ladies start eating less McDonald's!" Ummmm OK! Because obviously all I eat every day is those 7 or 8 Big Macs. Sure! The OB kept telling me over and over that I would have NO insulin problems whatsoever if I would just lose weight. I then pointed out that it is very well documented that I had hypoglycemia from birth (I was regularly hospitalized with it as an infant) and I weighed what, 8lbs? So what weight exactly, would I have to get to, to NOT be hypoglycemic then?? He didn't answer. :) I also pointed out that most my PCOS symptoms started before the weight gain. He just repeated that if I lost weight the PCOS would magically go away. I hate when doctors are stubborn! Anyway just letting you all know what's going on and that the baby is still there, heart beating away. Yay!! Again please forgive me if you come acorss this and it seems like I am being selfish and REALLY taking up a lot of forum space talking about myself here! I would have sooo many emails to write otherwise though.... thanks! TTY all soon - Sonnet
-- email always welcome: sonnet_fitz@hotmail.com
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