TTC in a year or so.

mama.jinx • Wife // mama // coffee snob // Gemini
I've been having a few appointments for a recent diagnosis of "mittelschmerz syndrome". It's crazy mid cycle pain, it's when a woman can feel herself ovulate and omg it SUCKS lol. 
My boyfriend has come to a couple appointments with me and they have the tv on a women's health channel or something. The only thing to help the ovulation pain is to get back on birth control; which I don't want to do because I was on it for so long, my boyfriend told me he wants to try in a year to a year and a half (YAY IVE BEEN BEGGING FOR EVERRRR), and I was on it for so long I don't want to get back on it from the horror stories of it causing fertility problems, kickstarting feminine cancers, all of the horror stories. My doctor did tell me that if you're on the right BC that those things shouldn't happen. Also, I'm not sure if my BC was half the reason I had extreme depression in those years. (Just some extra talk, besides the point) here's the point below lol
The TV talked about women going to the doctor before TTC to see if they should change anything/make sure they're healthy enough to conceive. My boyfriend and I both said we don't want me to go to the DR for that because we don't want to find out something we don't want to. I have scoliosis, heart arrhythmia, and crazy allergies. Is it super important to go to the doctor before TTC? I know you should eat better, exercise a little more, cut out smoking and drinking before TTC, so could we just try and not have to go to the doctor? 

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