immunology testing

I have not posted in a long time because I just feel totally overwhelmed, frustrated, and confused about the whole situation right now. Well I'm totally overwhelmed, frustrated and confused about a lot of things in my life right now but that's another story.

But because Intended D wants to use the blog to keep track of our path, I should post the latest events. The RE decided since we had the 2nd miscarriage that we should finally do immunological testing. Thank god she didn't have to use any deductive logic, because the little computer gave her a red flag when she typed in m/c #2... So much for independent thinking.

So the results are back. I've not mentioned this before, but our nurse is one of those people who cannot complete a full sentence and uses "you know..." to fill in blanks far more than a person should. She talks to me as if I've been through this shit before. Well I haven't...So she leaves a lot to be desired in the communication department. But my RE is out of town until the end of the week so the nurse had to give us the report.

The MTHFR tests show 2 mutations. From what the nurse says, they show that I don't absorb folic acid normally. So I am supposed to now start on Fogard to help with absorption.

Despite the mutations, my "fasting homocysteine" was normal (I didn't do this fasting, btw... does this matter?????) so this indicates that the miscarriage wasn't the result of a clotting issue.

Secondly, my RE wants me to get an anti-thrombin 3 panel done, so I just had the bloodwork for that done a couple days ago. So now we will await the results of that.

Finally, I haven't had a period in almost 8 weeks. So they tested my estradiol, progesterone, and a beta. Beta was obviously negative. The nurse told me that my system is "quiet" so now they want to put me on provera to get things started again. It'll cause a lining to build up, followed by shedding. When I asked her if this would result in normal cycles again, the nurse advised me to start on BCPs again when I'm done with the provera and resultant period.

But she DIDN'T answer my question...

Of course it makes sense to start on the BCPs because we're planning on a hysteroscopy next. But it is disturbing to me that this is treated so lackadaisically. Isn't this kind of a big deal to just NOT have a period for so long?

So I might start on the provera tonight. I'm a little reluctant about this whole fucking mess. I'm anxious to talk to the doctor about it all. My nurse is useless.