dorothiec’s Profile

Open Smoking Addiction & Recovery

I have been through a lot lately, but I want to get pregnant again. So I need to quit smoking. I need a lot of support right now.

Open High Cholesterol

I have been diagnosis with high cholesterol since I was 21. I currently taking Lipitor, but I will stop soon to try to get pregnant. Most likely a month before TTC. I exercise and eat vegan a lot.

Treatments

Aspirin Too Soon to Tell

I am actually taking asprin for conception reasons. I don't know much about it for chlesterol.

Lipitor Working / Worked

It rapidly decreases my cholesterol quick.

Folic Acid Working / Worked

I am taking for conception reasons.

Open Thyroid Cancer
Type: Papillary Carcinoma

At 19 years of age, the doctors found a lump on my thyroid. I had half my thyroid removed. They discovered another lump on the other side. I was misdiagnosis with thyroid cancer. I went to another doctor. I am thyroid replacement pills. The lump remains on the other side and it has not grown this year.

Treatments

Surgery Working / Worked

I had my left side of the thyroid removed

Synthroid Working / Worked

I still have a lump on the right side. It hasn't grown at all this year. 7mm

Open Healthy Eating

I am always careful about what I eat. I highly concerned with the chemicals they use to "process" food. I try to buy mostly organic. I have high cholesterol and cancer rates in my family, so I extremely careful to only eat meat and high fat foods rarely.

Treatments

Physical Exercise Working / Worked

I find it reduces my stress.

Open Miscarriage

Hi! I have had three miscarriages this year. We loss a newborn child as well. The last one occurred after extensive treatment for recurrent loss at 12 weeks. One occurred at 18 weeks of pregnancy. We discovered the baby died at 16 weeks. I mc at 6 weeks. My first daughter died a day after birth.

Treatments

D&C Too Soon to Tell

Psychotherapy Working / Worked

An outlet

Lovenox Working / Worked

Didnt work

Open Infertility, Secondary

I just have mc again. This is my third mc in a year. It's still soon, but I considering my options

Treatments

Adoption Considering

I love children. I am not sure why I can't go to term.

Progesterone Not Working

I mc again.

Lovenox Working / Worked

I mc anyways.

Open Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

I was badly abused as a child. I was diagnosis at age 18 years old. Then, my daughter died a day after birth. When my other daughter was 6 months old, I was phyiscally attack. There are months, I don't remember following the attack.

Open Alzheimer's Disease

I was the last child to leave home at 25 years old. I noticed my mother going down hill. Over the past 10 years, she has gotten worst. I have tried to talk to my siblings, but I would have better luck talking to a wall.

Open Pregnancy After Loss/Infertility

I have lost too much. I lost a newborn and I have mc 3 times. I am going to try to get pregnant again.

Open Hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS)

At age one I was diagnosis with HUS. At age 32, I began to have multiple miscarriages. I am looking for answers.