Jennifer1981
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I am sorry if I offend anyone by posting this in the adult section!!! I did also post it in the pregnancy section, but this is CF-related too. It may benefit other CF women if I share my experiences here. Again, sorry to offend anyone!!!
Many of you know on this site that my husband and I have been trying to conceive for the past 1.5 years with no luck. I have tried Robitussin, Mucinex, charting, ovulation kits, and everything...Everything points to I should not be having a problem. Well, it looks like the reason for not conceiving is my cervical mucus.
For the past few months, I noticed that I had a greenish-tinted cervical discharge around ovulation. I just thought it was the CF and didn't make much out of it. I had no others problems. Well, I finally decided to get it checked out two weeks ago...
I mentioned the symptoms or rather lack of. I told her basically that the main reason that I was there was because of the green-tinted discharge. I told her that I had no odor, no itching or burning of any kind.
Well, she thought either a yeast infection or bacterial infection. So I ended up getting a PAP. What fun... She said that the results would be in in a week or so.
Well early last Friday morning, the phone rang...The results for the possible yeast infection came back NEGATIVE. However, the results for the bacterial infection were not in yet. The nurse said the results for that may take another week. She said bacterial tests take longer....
Well, today I got back the bacterial culture results. The bacterial cultures for my greenish strecked/tinted mucus came back NEGATIVE as did the yeast cultures! The doctors are conviced that it is the CF that is causing the problem with conceiving. This is what I thought but was too afraid to really find out for the past few months... I DID NOT have any other problems, such as itching, burning, or anything else.
Honestly, I'm stumped, disappointed, sad, and ... I actually was kind of hoping they would have found something wrong. It would have been easily fixed unlike CF. I don't know what to think...
Here I am with MILD CF, FEV1 68%, NO DIABETES, VERY REGULAR CYCLES, AND ALL. I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!!! I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD BE IN THIS BOAT. I'VE WATCHED SO MANY GET PREGNANT AND DELIVER AND EVEN GET PREGNANT AGAIN, BRITNEY SPEARS. STILL HERE I AM... I'M OVERWHELMED!!! PLUS, I JUST GOT MY PERIOD TODAY SO I'M EXTRA EMOTIONAL... I JUST WANT TO CRY!!! I'M JUST SO ....
Many of you know on this site that my husband and I have been trying to conceive for the past 1.5 years with no luck. I have tried Robitussin, Mucinex, charting, ovulation kits, and everything...Everything points to I should not be having a problem. Well, it looks like the reason for not conceiving is my cervical mucus.
For the past few months, I noticed that I had a greenish-tinted cervical discharge around ovulation. I just thought it was the CF and didn't make much out of it. I had no others problems. Well, I finally decided to get it checked out two weeks ago...
I mentioned the symptoms or rather lack of. I told her basically that the main reason that I was there was because of the green-tinted discharge. I told her that I had no odor, no itching or burning of any kind.
Well, she thought either a yeast infection or bacterial infection. So I ended up getting a PAP. What fun... She said that the results would be in in a week or so.
Well early last Friday morning, the phone rang...The results for the possible yeast infection came back NEGATIVE. However, the results for the bacterial infection were not in yet. The nurse said the results for that may take another week. She said bacterial tests take longer....
Well, today I got back the bacterial culture results. The bacterial cultures for my greenish strecked/tinted mucus came back NEGATIVE as did the yeast cultures! The doctors are conviced that it is the CF that is causing the problem with conceiving. This is what I thought but was too afraid to really find out for the past few months... I DID NOT have any other problems, such as itching, burning, or anything else.
Honestly, I'm stumped, disappointed, sad, and ... I actually was kind of hoping they would have found something wrong. It would have been easily fixed unlike CF. I don't know what to think...
Here I am with MILD CF, FEV1 68%, NO DIABETES, VERY REGULAR CYCLES, AND ALL. I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!!! I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD BE IN THIS BOAT. I'VE WATCHED SO MANY GET PREGNANT AND DELIVER AND EVEN GET PREGNANT AGAIN, BRITNEY SPEARS. STILL HERE I AM... I'M OVERWHELMED!!! PLUS, I JUST GOT MY PERIOD TODAY SO I'M EXTRA EMOTIONAL... I JUST WANT TO CRY!!! I'M JUST SO ....