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I can't believe this!
| Mon, 05-03-2004 - 7:12pm |
I am in utter disbelief. I am 27 and already have a 4-year old daughter thanks to a pill failure. I have tried several pills, the ring and the patch and hated the hormonal side effects. I am sensitive to spermicide, so the diaphragm is out. I loved my copper IUD, but expelled it (twice). I practiced fertility awareness for 4 years, using condoms (which I hated) during my fertile time. I got so frustrated because whenever I wanted to have sex the most was when I was unsafe and had to use a condom. Then when I was safe and didn't need the condom, I had no interest in sex. Finally, my husband got a vasectomy. When his semen analysis came back okay (sterile), I was so happy! Well yesterday, one month after the semen analysis, I decided to check his semen using my microscope at home. Imagine my horror when I saw tons of little swimmers that were not there the month before! There seemed to be just as many as before the vasectomy. And we had had sex the day before during a very dangerous, fertile time. I hadn't been taking my temperature, because I thought I was done with fertility awareness. Well, when I took my temperature this morning, it was at a post-ovulatory level. I'm guessing that I ovulated either the day of or the day after we had sex. This is just unbelievable. I would've done emergency contraception only if I could've been sure that I hadn't already ovulated and that I would only be preventing conception not implantation. Since I wasn't sure about my ovulation status, I decided not to use EC. So now the long hard wait begins... Just needed to vent. Thanks for listening.

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First I wanna say I'm glad I'm not the only one geeky enough to take a look on my microscope at home.
Yeah, it can be tough to count the little buggers accurately.
Oh my gosh! I hope his count is so low that you are ok! When will you know from the lab? My thoughts and prayers are with you.
(((HUGS)))
Jill
~Josie
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