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🌱Acupuncture | Herbal Medicine
Fertility • Autoimmune • Women's Health
Military spouse sharing my IVF journey🤍
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10/28/2026

Come along for my first PIO injection!

We are scheduled for FET on Monday 🎉
My cyst has shrunk a good amount, my lining is 12.2 mm triliminar, and my hormones are where they should be! I've been resting more, doing a custom herbal formula, and both doing acupuncture on myself and getting it done.

I'm excited for transfer and for a little time off work to give this the best shot at success!

Watch until the end for my FET protocol 🤗

10/26/2026

Your tongue might be telling us more than you think. 👅🌿

One of the things I love about Chinese medicine is how we look at the body as a whole, including signs that might seem completely unrelated to our health.

After taking two pretty strong antibiotics for chronic endometritis, my tongue has been looking a little CRAZY. 😅

In Chinese medicine, a thick white tongue coating can be associated with an accumulation of dampness, and certain changes in color or appearance can suggest the presence of heat.

Dampness is a concept we use in Chinese medicine to describe a pattern of imbalance that may be associated with things like digestive discomfort, bloating, fatigue, heaviness, and sluggishness.

So what does Chinese medicine traditionally recommend for managing dampness? 🌿

🍲 Prioritize warm, cooked meals. Think soups, stews, and easily digestible foods.

🥦 Eat regularly and keep meals balanced. Chinese dietary therapy often emphasizes supporting digestion rather than relying on restrictive diets.

🍚 Incorporate foods traditionally used to support digestion and transform dampness, such as barley, adzuki beans, ginger, and certain cooked vegetables, depending on your individual pattern.

🚶‍♀️ Move your body gently. Walking and other comfortable forms of movement can be helpful for overall digestion and well-being.

🧘‍♀️ Prioritize rest and stress management. Especially when your body has already been through a lot.

Of course, tongue diagnosis is just one piece of a much bigger picture in Chinese medicine. A tongue coating alone can't diagnose a medical condition, and these traditional patterns aren't the same as Western medical diagnoses.

For me, it's been fascinating to see how my tongue has changed throughout this process, especially after everything my body has been through with IVF and fertility treatments.

Have you ever looked at your tongue and wondered what a Chinese medicine practitioner might see? 👀

10/23/2026

We are moving forward with our first frozen embryo transfer!
Although I'm very excited, these appointments never seem to get easier. They found a cyst just smaller than 5cm on my right o***y, and recommended I start birth control for between 2 weeks and 2 months to see if it will shrink on its own. I do not do well on BC. I'm also not comfortable taking it just to see if it will work.
So with the risks in mind, I decided to move forward. I've been assured that the cyst does not reduce the odds of FET being successful, and the cyst could go away on its own.
I've been doing lots of moxa, acupuncture, and infrared heat lamp to try to shrink it before my next monitoring appointment on Monday.
I'm just hoping I don't cry after this appointment too 😅
Currently my protocol is estradiol 2x daily until the lining is thick enough, and then I'll add in progesterone. Does estrogen give anyone else an attitude, because it certainly does me 🤣

I'll accept any and all prayers, baby dust, spells, well wishes for a successful transfer 💝

10/19/2026

Tomorrow is my first baseline appointment to start prepping for our transfer.
I want to give this transfer the best shot at success so I'm prioritizing sleep, stress reduction, eating warm foods, keeping my feet warm, and resting. And getting acupuncture.
I don't know what my transfer protocol will look like yet, but I'll keep you all updated as we go!
🤞 for an early November transfer!

10/18/2026

Doing IVF while my husband is deployed is much harder than I expected.
Deployment is hard enough on its own. And IVF is one of the hardest things I've ever gone through. Doing them at the same time? Not fun.
My hair has fallen out, I've gained weight, lost weight, gotten crazy breakouts all from the hormones. Ended up in the ER. Had night sweats for weeks. Struggled to sleep. Struggled to stay awake. Cried. Struggled with depression and anxiety. All just from the insane ups and downs of IVF.
Not having someone to go through this with me has made it even more challenging. My husband is incredibly supportive, calls as often as he can, keeps up with our timelines and whats going on, encourages me, but there's only so much he can do from half way around the world. And I can't just call when things get hard.
Most people never have to think about what it would be like if all of a sudden your significant other was just gone for months at a time with limited communication. What responsibilities would you have to absorb that they normally handle? What would fall onto your already full plate? What parts of your life would suddenly feel empty? That's the reality of being a military spouse. And they tend to leave right at the worst possible time 😅
I'm looking forward to this year being over. Putting this deployment behind us. And hopefully getting our miracle baby 🙏

10/13/2026

Can Acupuncture treat infertility?
Here's what I want you to know.
We have increasing data on acupuncture improving live birth rates with IVF, improving ovulation in patients with PMOS, improving implantation rates during transfer, etc.

But acupuncture is not a quick fix. It is encouraging your body to function optimally on its own. This involves improving stress hormones, improving sleep, calming the nervous system, promoting blood flow, regulating the menstrual cycle, etc.
As a practitioner, my goal ultimately is the patients health, which means I focus on optimizing health over getting a positive pregnancy test. I want you to be able to get pregnant, stay pregnant, have a healthy birth, and ease the hardship of postpartum life.
For every year you've had a symptom, it can generally take 1 month of consistent treatment to see that symptom get better.

Seek out an acupuncturist near you, and if you need help finding one let me know!

10/07/2026

How to Improve Egg Quality 🥚

Improving egg quality looks very similar to improving overall health. We want to reduce oxidative stress and improve cellular energy.

Changes should be made 90+ days before egg retrieval to see the most benefit.

Eat healthy. Exercise. Rest rest and more rest.
Cut out alcohol and ni****ne.

And adding in some targeted supplements like CoQ10 and a good prenatal can really help.

10/06/2026

Endometritis Update: The waiting game continues

Right now I'm taking two antibiotics to treat the endometritis we found on my biopsy, and they've definitely been making me feel a little gross. The metallic taste is strong 😅, I've had some hot flashes, and overall I'm just ready to be done with them.
But despite that, I actually feel really hopeful about our next steps.
Emotionally, though, this last month has been hard.
I feel like we've just been on pause waiting for transfer. And while you're waiting, life keeps moving.
Milestones pass. Holidays come around. Another month goes by.
And each one has this way of reminding you just how long you've been trying.
There have been so many holidays and important dates where we've thought, maybe by then we'll be pregnant. So many times I've imagined telling our families or celebrating a milestone differently because surely, by that point, we'd finally have our positive pregnancy test.
And then the date comes and goes.
I think that's one of the quieter parts of infertility that people don't always see. You can be grateful, hopeful and genuinely excited about where things are going while also grieving how long it's taken to get there.
So that's where I'm at right now. Taking the antibiotics, waiting for the next step, letting myself feel all of it—and still feeling really hopeful that we're getting closer. 🤍

09/29/2026

Well… we finally got an answer. Just not necessarily the one I wanted.
My endometrial biopsy came back positive for endometritis—inflammation of the lining of the uterus.
After my hysteroscopy found none of the things we expected to find, I was really hoping this biopsy would come back clear and we'd be one step closer to our frozen embryo transfer.
Instead, we have another thing to address first.
Right now, I'm waiting to hear back from my fertility clinic about what treatment will look like and whether I'll need another biopsy afterward to confirm it's resolved before we can move forward.
And I think this is one of the hardest parts of infertility treatment: the finish line keeps moving.
You tell yourself, after retrieval… after we get our embryos… after this procedure… after these results… then we can move forward.
And then sometimes there's just… another thing.
I'm grateful we tested. I'm grateful we found it before transferring one of our embryos. But I'm also letting myself be frustrated that we're adding another step to a journey that already feels like it has had SO many steps.
So for now, we wait for the plan, treat what needs to be treated, and hopefully get one step closer to transfer. 🤍

09/27/2026

Right now, some things are getting the absolute bare minimum from me. And I’m trying to learn that sometimes that's okay. 🤍
Last week I had a hysteroscopy. We went into it expecting to potentially find and remove a polyp and address a possible adhesion…and they found neither. Nothing was there. I did have an endometrial biopsy, so now we wait for those results and figure out what comes next in our fertility journey.
But lately, IVF is only one piece of what's going on.
My husband is deployed. I'm running a business. I'm managing my own health. I'm navigating fertility treatments. There are things happening in my personal life that need my time and attention. And somewhere in between all of that, I'm supposed to keep up with the normal responsibilities of being a functioning adult. 😅
And I'm tired.
I'm a perfectionist. I don't like doing things halfway. If I'm going to do something, I want to give it 100%—probably 110%.
But I don't have 110% to give right now.
Things are falling through the cracks. Some things are getting done late. Some are getting the bare minimum. Some aren't getting done at all.
And as frustrating as that is for me, I'm realizing this season isn't about doing everything exceptionally well. It's about getting through it.
I have a feeling a lot of military spouses know this point in a deployment—the point where you're just tired. And if you're balancing infertility, chronic illness, work, family, or simply too many things at once on top of it, I hope you know you don't have to be exceptional at all of them every single day.
Sometimes surviving the season is enough. 🤍

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