Stopping Progesterone

Maggie

We graduated from our fertility clinic yesterday! Our RE told us to stop our meds after last night's dose. We were 9w0d yesterday. Stopping progesterone and lovenox make me nervous, so I figured there wouldn't be any harm to weaning myself with 1 progesterone pill a day until just before my OBGYN appointment and then asking for progesterone bloodwork to ensure that my levels were okay.

As for lovenox I do plan to continue those shots until my obgyn appointment and ask them for a referral to a hematologist because we were 'precautiously' taking it and I want to be sure that I'm not putting myself or baby in danger by stopping.

With the lovenox issue I asked my husband about a week ago how he felt about it and he said b was much more comfortable continuing it and getting an appointment with a hematologist than just stopping it. With the progesterone it didn't really hit me until last night when I did my 'last' dose, and my husband was already out at the movies with his brother.

This morning my alarm went off and I went to get my pill he says I thought you were done with the pills, so I explain that stopping before 10 weeks makes me nervous because of the placenta potentially not taking over hormones yet, and because with our son my number at 10 weeks was only 14 which isn't that high. He says "that's f***ing ridiculous" in an angry tone. Then tells me the doctor has had thousands of patients and if it's not safe to stop this early he wouldn't have us stopping. I told him my plan was to take half my dose until we are 10 weeks, then have the OBGYN run progesterone bloodwork at my 10w3d appointment. He says "that's f***ing dumb and ridiculous but do whatever you're going to do don't listen to me". I told him thanks for being supportive so he says "supportive isn't just agreeing with you all the time it's telling you when you're being a f***ing idiot too" so I just said being supportive is talking to me kindly which he isn't doing. He rolled over and went back to sleep.

This became a much longer rant than thought it would but I guess thanks for reading.