So you know how I was saying that I'm in complete denial these days? (Two week wait? I don't know what you mean. You must have me mistaken with someone trying to conceive.) And how I kept forgetting to take my progesterone at night?
But of course I never really forgot. I always remembered in time, and got my hormone fix before I went to sleep. So it's really been only partial repression, with memories of my real life shining through the cracks just in the nick of time.
Until today. This morning, I was driving to work, la la la , listening to NPR, madly dashing from lane to lane to avoid the commuters who are even crazier drivers than me, thinking about what I would say to my boss in our meeting when all of a sudden I realized .... I FORGOT TO TAKE MY PROGESTERONE! I take the bullets at night, and in the morning, and this morning I just. plumb. forgot.
I have a hellishly long commute to work, and except for the five minutes it's taking me to write this, today is full full full of meetings etc. There is absolutely no way for me to go home and take care of this until work is over. So now I won't be able to get the next dose in until about 6:30 tonight. Yeah, that would be only, um, 10 hours late. Or about 16 hours since my last dose. Oh my god, I'm fucked.
So anybody with more experience or medical expertise than me, please please tell me if this is disastrous or if it's not that big a deal. Is one missed dose of progesterone the catastrophe I fear it is? If by some miracle I have an embryo whittling away at my uterine lining, have I doomed it to extinction?
Fuck, fuck, fuck.
Not that big a deal, nice lady. Since you had an IUI and not IVF, you have unmolested follicles making plenty of progesterone to see you through the gap. You're okay.
Posted by: Julie | October 07, 2004 at 05:20 PM
Thank goodness Julie knows here stuff....I was thinking maybe there is a pharmacy near by who could deliver a batch to your office ?
Posted by: eM | October 08, 2004 at 01:44 AM
I think you are OK to miss a dose... Did you call your doctor? Hope all is well!
Posted by: Jamie | October 08, 2004 at 08:29 AM
I used the bullets (which I hated AND made me totally wacky and emotional), and my period wouldn't arrive for three days after I stopped them. I think that you are probably okay. If you are super worried, you could stop by a natural foods store and pick up a tube of progesterone cream at lunch. It's not the same dosage of the bullets, but it might tide you over and ease your mind.
Posted by: Ellen | October 08, 2004 at 10:20 AM