I got married in 2006 and the next month, my dear husband (DH) went to Dubai to seek greater opportunities. After 4 months, I followed him there. Since we were just both trying to establish our careers here in Dubai, we decided not to have a baby first. For a year, we were intentionally avoiding naturally to have a baby. But around end of 2007, we told ourselves 'to heck with the rhythm method' and adopted new motto -- 'come what may', meaning if baby comes then fine, and if no baby then it's ok also.
In 2008, I became little bit worried because I was not getting pregnant even if we were having baby dances on what I thought was my fertile periods. So when we had our vacation in Philippines, I scheduled my first appointment with an OBGYNE in Sacred Heart Malolos, Bulacan. I did not know if it was coincidence but when I visited her clinic, I had 2 lines in the HPT. DH and I were ecstatic at that time! It was supposed to be around 7-8 weeks already.However, she was not able to perform any other tests as I was bound to go back to Dubai already in 3 days time. So she just advised me to visit obgyne here in Dubai.
But when I got back in Dubai, I had spotting already so I got scared. I went to 2 obgynes here and 1 of them diagnosed it as threatened miscarriage while the other one said it was chemical pregnancy. I was prescribed to take a medicine then which I could not recall and after that, I had heavy bleeding the next day, with large blood clot (size of a 10 peso coin) that came out of me. My DH and I was thinking, that was supposed to be the baby...
After that episode, I did not have regular periods and I never came positive again.
December 2010 -- I visited again my Indian obgyne here in Dubai as I was experiencing prolonged and heavy bleeding. She then diagnosed me having PCOS. She prescribed Primolut-N to stop the bleeding and regulate my period. She wants me to come to her every month so she could monitor my cycle and have me undergo fertility treatment but I had no trust in her and her fees are very expensive. So I had to postpone my treatment on a later date and resorted instead to Primolut-N temporarily.
Jan 2011-Aug 2012 -- recurrent cycles of heavy bleeding which was temporarily resolved by Primolut-N. And still I am not getting pregnant.
Lots of negative things are crossing my mind. What if I cannot bear a child anymore? What if I have cancer?? Lots of what ifs... So we decided to seek medical help and treat my PCOS and see if there are other reasons why I am not getting pregnant.
Nov 2012 -- DH and I decided to start the fertility treatment in Philippines. And so our journey begins!
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