Urine In My Refrigerator!

Yep! That's it! A big freakin' jug of urine that lives in my refrigerator! Exciting stuff, yeah? I know I was pretty stoked to hear that I would have bodily fluids sitting around where I keep my food! :(

I worry a bit about my urine volume already. Apparently 800 to 2000 milliliters per day is normal. I started my collection at 11am... well, sort of. At 11am, I discarded my FMU (as required) and I've collected everything since then. Its not 5pm and I'm already at about 500 milliliters. I have a lot of my 24 hours left to already be 1/4 of the way to the 2000 mark.

Amongst the many, many tests I'm having done... I have to do a 24 hour urine collection. Good times! The bright side? I have a doctor who believes in tests now! YAY!

To get to some of what's been tested already... She ran a full thyroid panel. The portions that have come back already were all very, very normal. There is at least one thyroid test that is still out, and she warned me that it could take up to 2 weeks (from last Friday) to get the result. Actually, almost everything looked normal... ALMOST!

My Vitamin D level was at 18 ng/mL. It showed that as "low"... but it listed the reference range as 20-100 ng/mL. So, I didn't think much of it at first glance. Then I read the paragraph below it that said <20>30 ng/mL is sufficient. Further research online showed that OPTIMAL levels are 50-70 ng/mL! Soooo, I'm WAY off from "optimal," and I'm now on a high dose supplement of it. My reading suggests that we can easily process up to 10,000 IU of it each day, so I bought 5,000 IU supplements to try and get the deficiency up to an optimal level as quickly as possible. There are many, many ugly things that the deficiency can do. So, I'm hopeful that this is part of my problem.

I plan to go to my GP with a loooooong list of blood tests that I want run. I'm sick of this crap hand that I've been dealt! I'm getting most of them done on CD3 so I don't have to go in more times than absolutely necessary!

Here's the list:

FBC - including ESR

Iron, Ferritin, B12, B6

TSH

FSH, LH, E2

lgE, lgA

Antinuclear antibodies

Cardiolipin antibodies

Lupus anticoagulant

Thrombophilia studies

Prolactin

Progesterone

T3, T4

Total Testosterone

Free Testosterone

DHEAS

Androstenedione

SHBG

Fasting Insulin

MTHFR

Then, I'll definitely be going back for 7dpo Progesterone testing! I'm not so certain that it's not still low.

Hoping I can get all of this figured out sooner than later, because its the first step in actually conceiving a HEALTHY pregnancy! I'll be reporting my results as they come in... at least the interesting ones! I'll save you the boredom of reading through the "normal" results!

I hope this post finds everyone well! I've really missed blogging here... but I just hadn't worked up the nerve to do it yet. I hope some of you are still reading!

♥ Megg