Sorry I haven't posted for so long! I was kinda waiting for my doctor's appointment yesterday, but really that's no excuse. =)

So, I ovulated yesterday, that's the first thing. I actually followed the doctor's advice and didn't BD, so there's no chance of pregnancy this month.

So, my doctor had me have a chest X-ray and a CT scan of my sinuses. Really, the results are just about as bad as they can be - except for finding something unexpected like cancer. But when I saw her she said, "Your CT scan looks REALLY bad. We have to talk about it." She says I have acute, chronic, pan-sinisitis. Basically, that's means I have a bad sinus infection. She's going to give me some antibiotics to see if they help (and I think they will) but the worst case situation is that perhaps I have a defect that causes my sinuses not to drain properly, and that can be corrected with surgery. Obviously I don't want surgery! My plan is to take the antibiotics and get rid of this thing in the next 3 weeks - then it is time to start trying to conceive again.

I also took a skin allergy test. I'm not allergic to cats (at least, this first test didn't show that - they will do another in depth one though) and I am allergic to ragweed and russian thistle (which is very common). So, basically my allergies act up during August through October. Makes sense to me! I'm also allergic to common cocklebur and/or cockroaches. I thought the common cocklebur had something to do with cockroaches, but a quick search online didn't show any connection, so now I'm confused. Anyway, she said I had a really bad allergy to ragweed - in fact, the tiny spot where she did the test still itches! But as soon as she put the tiny drop of ragweed on me, the whole area broke out in a rash and hives and started itching like crazy. Imagine if I had to roll around in a pool of that stuff! Luckily, I doubt no such pool exists.

The predisone really helped me though... I'm still slightly congested but no more asthma problems. I have one more day of predisone left, so hopefully I don't start feeling bad again. She has me on Singulair instead of Zyrtec because Zyrtec will influence my allergy tests and Singulair won't. But, I don't feel Singulair works as well for me. When I take Zyrtec, I just dry up like a fish out of water (that reminds me of a time when my pet fish jumped out of the tank, and when I finally found him three days later, he looked like a little orange potato chip).