My Once Upon a Time...

Well, I might be overly dramatic here, but you can’t really describe these "60 days of hell" as a pleasure either.   I told you in my previous post here about the Immune Balancing Protocol that my doctor had proposed to me in order to get my body cleaned out and prepared for pregnancy. In the initial consultation he mentioned two shots a day and some medication, but nothing could’ve prepared me for what was coming when I went back to start the protocol.   What I didn’t mention before was that the protocol is considered “experimental” and not approved or reviewed by any other doctor. He developed this program and is the only doctor in the world who does it. And before you all freak out, there are no side effects besides flu like symptoms and he has been voted as the Top Fertility doctor in Phoenix in 2012, so I felt pretty confident with him. He has done the protocol on over 2500 couples in the last 17 years and his success rate to get pregnant afterwards is around 75%. ...

Have you ever heard of the Clomid Monster? It's a scary thing, I'm telling you! While I was trying to get pregnant these last few months, my doctor prescribed a medication called Clomid, which helps your body produce more follicles. I knew all about the horrible side effects, terrible headaches, hot flashes, weight gain and moodiness. "But Come on people"! Habt ihr schon mal vom Clomid Monster gehoert? Es ist eine beängstigende Sache, ich sags euch! Während ich in den letzten paar Monaten versuchte schwanger zu werden, verschrieb mein Arzt mir ein Medikament namens Clomid, was deinem Körper hilft, mehrere Eier pro Monat zu produzieren.  Ich hatte über die schrecklichen Nebenwirkungen schon viel gehoert: schlimme Kopfschmerzen, Hitzewallungen, Gewichtszunahme und Stimmungsschwankungen. You only take it for five days during your cycle, so I thought, no big deal, I can live with all those side effects, if it gets me pregnant! My first cycle, I didn't have...