Angelia, Here's my story (long..)

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Angelia, Here's my story (long..)
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Sat, 09-06-2003 - 10:55pm


Angelia,

Thanks for the advice. One of the showers I'm not going to because I have to work, the other I really feel obligated to go to because it's my really good friend who actually got pregnant thru IVF so she and I really share a bond. I think as far as buying a present, I'm going to just give my best friend $ and let her buy them a bigger present from both of us. You sure you want to hear my story? It's long.....

Started trying to conceive Aug.01, at about 6months into went to see GYN just because I felt like something was wrong, he wouldn't even listen to me, so finally I found a GYN who is great and listens to what I say. We actually started trying Clomid for 3 cycles before I even hit the 1 year mark, just because I guess. I know I'm ovulating, have regular cycles (26-28days), LP of 14days, basically normal cycles. All of my blood work has been normal, dh SA normal, HSG normal, only thing abnormal GYN found was PCT showed "thick" cervical mucus that dh's sperm couldn't swim thru. This is probably due to LEEP I had about 6 years ago. Tried the whole Robitussin thing with no luck also. GYN recommended we see RE. DH and I are both perfectly healthy 28 year olds. RE unable to do endometrial biopsy due to cervical stenosis, he couldn't get the darn thing past my cervix without causing some major bleeding. But like I said, all blood work indicates I'm Oing and everything (hormone) levels are perfectly normal and in the range they should be at any given point in my cycle. We tried 2 IUI's w/o stims, and have done 2IUI's w/stims (follistim and pregnyl), obviously all have failed. So August 4th I relented to a exp. lap. thinking well maybe I have some endo or something else going on (even though I have no sx). I figured I wasn't going to spend anymore $ if there was something going on in my pelvic cavity we didn't know about. Exp lap showed perfectly normal everything (I have to pics to prove it!) We saw the RE yesterday and he recommended we move on to IVF, which is what dh and I were expecting to hear. We've been saving for it. So that's my story, I don't think I left anything out. We've been seeing RE since December '02. If you can think of anything else I could do I'd love to hear, I'm so tired of being let down every month, although I'm kind of getting used to it!

Desire'

TTC#1 since 8/01








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Sat, 09-06-2003 - 11:28pm
Angelia,

I'm going to bed, it's 11:30PM here and I have to work tomorrow 7A-7P. E-mail me if you want, I'd love to hear from you. Did you have IVF, maybe I could pick your brain if you don't mind. Still trying to figure out how I could do that around my work schedule. I'd love to go ahead and do it in November. I just don't want everyone at work knowing.

Desire'

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Sat, 09-06-2003 - 11:41pm
Just a question but why only three cycles of clomid?...what mg did you get too..?? It seems like no one really gave you any of the other fertility medicines like Pergonal which is a mixture of lh and fsh..I know the chances of multiples are very high with these drugs...and I would think that would have been the next step after the clomid therapy...plus for the cm...did they not want to try estrogen therapy like estrace for it....it is given to women during fertility therapy to help with sticky cm thick cm..or even no cm because of the excess other hormones..just a question..I am not saying I am an expert at this..or that your Re didn't consider this..but just a question really..the other drugs are just one category of the gonadotripins..so I was just curious..maybe you already know the answers to these..and if this is just no help...I am truly sorry..

xxoo

Angelia