Our journey through infertility, failed adoptions and now parenthood through the miracle of embryo adoption/donation.

Monday, February 8, 2010

No more PIO!!

So last week I noticed that my hips were itchy. Not too bad, but enough to irritate me at times. By Saturday I noticed that my hips were red and kind of welt-y looking and the itching was getting worse. I googled rashes and PIO (what did we do before google??) and I assumed that it was an allergic reaction to the sesame oil. So I called my OB's exchange and the on call doctor called me back. The nicest man, but I was not confident in his assurances that all was fine. I did continue my PIO injections and called my OB this morning. His nurse called back and told me to come in. ASAP. Great!!

So he examines me and is unsure if it is from the PIO or if I have a staph infection. I am to quit the PIO immediately (yay!) and switch back to the suppositories. I am on an antibiotic in case there is an infection. I have to return on Thursday for him to double check things.

This part is TMI, so please feel free to skip....
While there I had him check the hoo-ha. Since about the 3rd week of pregnancy I have had asparagus smelling urine but no other odors. Until now. I know that odors can be normal, but being that very few things seem to go right in my quest to have a baby, I am afraid that my new scent is not in the normal range. He did a culture and I will hear back about that tomorrow.

So as it stands: I have a possible allergic reaction/staph infection--treated by antibiotics--which will give me a yeast infection--while waiting to hear back if I already have an infection. And the fun never ends!!! The good news is that I now just 4 days from stopping my meds. WOOT!

9 comments:

  1. I hope its not a staph infection, or any kind of infection for that matter. Praying for you Jess. I pray all is well with you and your bambino.

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  2. Well, yay for the lack of P10, but the rest of that sounds less than fun! You should eat a TON of yogurt with live cultures or see if you can take acidophilus while you're pregnant. I take it every time I'm on antibiotics and it usually keeps the yeast infection at bay!

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  3. I had the same thing happen and I wasn't feeling that great either. Didn't realize how it affected me until I switched to supp. and started the antibiotic. Very norm. Our tooshies can only take so much, people! I was soooo nervous about going on antibiotics, but was reassured NO BIG deal for babies! Relax and hope it goes away quickly!

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  4. Fun times! Hope you get over everything quickly-you're almost to your 2nd trimester!!!

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  5. On the plus side, your blog is looking awesome!

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  6. Ok, I'm glad to hear someone else say something about the smell... I had no infection, nothing. Might be TMI as well, but with my enhanced sense of smell, frankly I couldn't stand myself. Now off the PIO I notice it's pretty much gone. Glad you went to the doc... the end of injections is a wonderful thing.

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  7. You poor thing! Delighted you got checked out though, I'm sure everything will be just fine.
    I love the new Valentine look of the blog! Fran

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  8. LOVE your new blog look!! And so happy you get to be done your shots soon!! YAY!!!

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  9. <~~~~~Jealous about stopping PIO!

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