Whoa a full two months later...
Anyway I've not had anything major to report so I haven't posted, but my birthday was on Friday so I thought it was a good point to post. Two birthdays ago, I'd just finished the embryo freezing, was very ill, and waiting on my transplant... And last year I barely had any hair, had severe acne, and still had to be crazy careful around coughing people. So not bad of an improvement this year (18 months post transplant)!
Here's my birthday photo from my sewing site:
My only ongoing issues are with my hormones, which are just bad/nonexistent/whatever. I've finally been referred to the gynae/endocrine Early Menopause clinic at Guy's hospital, after being totally ignored for a full year at the pathetic King's gynae/endocrine unit, and I'm now being seen by a Prof at Guy's, and I get the feeling that everyone there actually cares. Which is a nice change. The only problem is that I have to go hormone cold turkey for 3 months in order for her to see what's going on without the pill masking it, so I'm currently at hormone ground zero. Thankfully it's not been
too bad, but I've noticed a few acne spots on my chin since I stopped, so the dermatologist is going to have fun with that (she's had me on Accutane for ~5-6 months to deal with the hormone-related acne).
But it least it feels like we're trying things to tackle the remaining issues, rather than just sitting around doing nothing, quietly suffering, so even these problems are an improvement if they mean they might lead to a proper understanding of my hormone issue...
Blood-wise, I'm totally normal and have been for so long that they don't even tell me my numbers anymore!