2nd appt

Yesterday I had my second visit at the new dr's office. They are really great. Everyone is very kind. I annoyingly had to pay my deductible at the appointment, and I was not expecting that. They did what they call PMR (pelvic muscle retraining). This is a test to see how much in spasm and how tense my pelvic muscles are. Ok, again this is TMI and I can't believe I'm sharing this, but WTHeck! So they measure this by placing 2 probes, neither of which are in the bladder, I'll let you figure it out. SO SO not fun. And the fact that I had to pay for that! EEEEK!!! I still am not over it:) But, this was a good test to have done. It gave important information. The average woman has a muscle pressure (I guess that is what you call it?) of 5 when relaxing. When I was relaxing I ranged from 12-13, in other words very tense. It makes sense. I don't even have a clue I am doing this. I have just gotten in a terrible habit of it, from years of pelvic pain and holding my urine. Honestly, I was shocked when she told me the number. I was trying to think of beaches ect, really relaxing, or so I thought. Basically, some people hold their tension in their necks, I hold mine in my crotch! What can I say:) Anyway, they do a variety of "exercises" if you will. After that, I got my pressure down to a 9. Still high, but an improvement. After that, I had my second bladder instillation. It hurt. I hope I can get used to that soon.

Then the dr came in with a bag full of estrogen. The plan was that I would take it for 4 months along with my regular bcps. Then we got to talking. He pretty much thinks that my body is terribly used to the pill and that my liver now metabolizes it faster, thus the breakthrough bleeding, all the time. We decided that it might be time that I try a new pill, a much stronger pill, with the higher dose of estrogen built in. I'm sure it will make me terribly sick! I am going to go ahead and let myself even out and have a full cycle, then not this Sunday, but the next, start the new pills. So keep me in you thoughts and prayers over the next couple of weeks as it may be rough. We also discussed, that after being on IC meds for a couple of months, perhaps I see what having a cycle each month is like. So, that is a possibility.

I went to the pharmacy today. Meds are outrageously expensive, so I will be having to mail order them. But, I went ahead and got 2 weeks worth so I can start. I will be starting the IC meds tomorrow. I also will call my local gyn and see what he says for a plan for the instillation. Hoping to be seeing some major changes soon!