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| Mon, 12-03-2007 - 3:49pm |
Good afternoon!
I am new to this board (I was on the PCOS board for a few months when I was misdiagnosed early on), but new to this board. My main reason for looking up this board is for much needed support. I, like many of you can probably understand, have very few people that truly understand what I am going through. This time of year has to be the worst.
A brief background, I have been married to a wonderful man for just over 4 years and we have been TTC #1 for just over 2 years now. I was originally diagnosed with PCOS, but when I had my doubts based on some of the signs/ symptoms that I never had, I begged that they re-test and after 7 months on the meds, they finally re-tested and I was right. One of my first lessons in I must be my own advocate. There have been many more, trust me.
Fast forward another year and I have been through 4 cylces of Clomid, 3 IUI's and a million tests. We recently found out that DH has low motility and I have poor egg quality. The doc has said that IVF is our only option at this point. We decided to take a step back and puruse adoption, but I always had the "what if" voice in the back of my head. We are now going to put adoption on hold and try IVF (or that is what we have decided as of today anyway). DH just changed jobs and some infertility may be covered under his new insurance, so we are waiting to hear back from them again to find out exactly what is covered before moving forward. I have learned to never get your hopes up too high these days.
All of my close friends, family and everyone around me has healthy and happy babies and I am definitely the outsider looking in as everyone else moves on with their lives and we are stuck in the quicksand. I really just wanted to reach out because I know you know the feeling.
Thank you for listening- Courtney

Hello Courtney!
Welcome to the board.