Hi everyone, just wanted to express my appreciation for this site and all of the people who post.
DH and I have been married since 2004 and though it was time to start trying for a family. I have had various suspicious issues through my life and was diagnosed by a reproductive endocrinologist with PCOS a handful of weeks ago. She also advised a test for CF; I probably wouldn't have done it, but it happened to be covered by my insurance and they were already taking a gabillion vials of blood anyhow - what's one more?
I was diagnosed as a carrier about two weeks ago, and we were both shocked. Nobody in my family has CF, so we had no idea. I sent DH in the very next day to be tested - again, nobody in his family has CF, so it was just for reassurance that he was "normal" and everything was fine. Turns out he is a carrier too. We were devastated and scared (well, we are still pretty nervous, but we're doing much better now than we were on Thursday, that's for sure!).
After a few days and reading a handful of posts, I am so encouraged by your stories and words. It seems that our options would be to do IVF and test embryos at 8 cells, or do amnio at 11 weeks and make a decision whether to continue if dx came up positive. I think we are both at the point where we would keep the baby regardless of the dx if we were already 11 weeks along as we are both pro-life in an idealistic sense. Are there any other options to detecting CF?
I'm curious what people on the forum could say about our lab tests too. I think we both carry the Delta F508. Is that good, bad, indifferent? I imagine all of this stuff has a variety of outcomes anyhow. Just curious. When I spoke to the woman in the Genetics Lab, I didn't think to ask. Well, frankly, I didn't know to ask! I'm learning a lot on the fly here...
I had already been taking Provera to kickstart a period - the plan was to do that and then continue with Clomid and hope for the best. My thought is to trust God and see what happens, rather than delay. Just trying to collect as much information as possible.
Again, thank you for your wonderful encouragement. It really has made a lot of difference as our carrier status made us question a lot of things! What a whirlwind. Thanks in advance for sharing.
DH and I have been married since 2004 and though it was time to start trying for a family. I have had various suspicious issues through my life and was diagnosed by a reproductive endocrinologist with PCOS a handful of weeks ago. She also advised a test for CF; I probably wouldn't have done it, but it happened to be covered by my insurance and they were already taking a gabillion vials of blood anyhow - what's one more?
I was diagnosed as a carrier about two weeks ago, and we were both shocked. Nobody in my family has CF, so we had no idea. I sent DH in the very next day to be tested - again, nobody in his family has CF, so it was just for reassurance that he was "normal" and everything was fine. Turns out he is a carrier too. We were devastated and scared (well, we are still pretty nervous, but we're doing much better now than we were on Thursday, that's for sure!).
After a few days and reading a handful of posts, I am so encouraged by your stories and words. It seems that our options would be to do IVF and test embryos at 8 cells, or do amnio at 11 weeks and make a decision whether to continue if dx came up positive. I think we are both at the point where we would keep the baby regardless of the dx if we were already 11 weeks along as we are both pro-life in an idealistic sense. Are there any other options to detecting CF?
I'm curious what people on the forum could say about our lab tests too. I think we both carry the Delta F508. Is that good, bad, indifferent? I imagine all of this stuff has a variety of outcomes anyhow. Just curious. When I spoke to the woman in the Genetics Lab, I didn't think to ask. Well, frankly, I didn't know to ask! I'm learning a lot on the fly here...
I had already been taking Provera to kickstart a period - the plan was to do that and then continue with Clomid and hope for the best. My thought is to trust God and see what happens, rather than delay. Just trying to collect as much information as possible.
Again, thank you for your wonderful encouragement. It really has made a lot of difference as our carrier status made us question a lot of things! What a whirlwind. Thanks in advance for sharing.