Merciér Therapy

I happened to stumble across Merciér Therapy on Facebook.  I am part of a local infertility group on Facebook and was scanning through recent posts.  The first thing I did was look it up to see what it was.

It is a manipulative therapy that is completed over a short period of time to get optimal results.  This was right along the path that I was taking, so I had to know more.

I called Karen, she was the therapist that pulled up in my area.  She was so sweet on the phone and I decided to go in for a 30 minute consultation to see what it was all about.

The purpose of Merciér therapy is to use a gentle, corrective massage therapy to create more blood flow and mobility of the uterus, ovaries and tubes.  It goes to the source of the challenge and fixes it.  This sounded much better to me than prescription drugs and injections!

Merciér therapy has to occur on a consistent basis to achieve maximum results.  It is kind of like physical therapy, just for your abdomen/reproductive area.

Karen suggested 12 sessions of therapy for a one month period which would mean 3 - 4 times a week.  There would be a 30 minute abdomen portion and an hour full body massage after that because she believes that the entire body works together, I agree with that logic as well.

While I was there she also asked if she could go ahead and feel around my abdomen area to see if she noticed anything.  While laying on the table she noticed that I had a lot of scar tissue on the right hand side of my abdomen (this is the side that the doctor in Tulsa told me he couldn't find my ovary).  She was confident that if we started the therapy that would break up that tissue.

She asked me if there had been anything in my life that I could think of as trauma to my body.  After further discussion I told her that I was in a car accident about 7 years ago, the right side would have been where my seatbelt was.  I also had a very hard fall a few years ago which was also concentrated on my right side.

We discussed timing since the 12 sessions need to be done in a very close time frame.  Karen was asked to go to Dubai to speak about Merciér therapy so we decided that I would start my treatment at the beginning of November.

I couldn't wait!

Test Results

What a mess.  That pretty much sums up the ordeal that the last week has been.  I had my blood taken on 9/10 at the hospital.  While I was there I asked them how long they thought it would take they said one to two days.

I wanted the results back the second I got my blood tested!  I called the doctors office on Wednesday and they said they hadn't received the results from the hospital yet.  I called back again on Thursday, same thing. We went out of town over the weekend so I didn't think about it much for the next few days.

Once I got back on Monday I called the doctor again.  She decided this time she would call the hospital (before she was just looking on a program online).  Monday evening I received a call from the lab. They had lost my blood.  Go figure, in today's day and age I don't know how that even happens.  I had to verify my bracelet to my blood multiple times before I could leave.

So, I went back to the hospital, had my blood take again and my results came back the very next day.

Hormone	February 2013	September 2013
HCG	1.7	4
FSH	114	123
LH	42	53
AMH	Not tested	<.16

No positive changes, I am devastated.  After all this hard work and nothing.  The world we live in is very fast paced so we as Americans have become the same way.  I have been learning to have patience.  It is very hard for me.  Waiting for my dream house for 6 months taught me patience.  I think everything happens for a reason and I think that experience was just teaching me for my whole infertility journey.

Taking a look at the larger picture - I was on a pill that tricked my body for years so why would my body in just 3 months snap back from that.

I just keep taking it day by day and hoping for positive results.  At the end of the day that is what we have, HOPE.

Hormones Rechecked

I have been doing my daily regimen of herbs and supplements.  Eating better, exercising more frequently. Going to bi weekly appointments of acupuncture.  I also go to the chiropractor once a month.

We decided to get my hormone levels re checked to see if there had been any positive improvements.  It has been exactly 3 months since I started my natural process.

I called my doctor here and asked to get my blood work taken, they told me for the tests I was wanting I would have to go to the local hospital.  I went in this morning and had my blood taken.

I feel like there is a lot riding on this.  I have made many changes that I believe in and not to mention the financial part of it; all the pills that I purchased and appointments.  It all adds up.