Ali's version of the RE...
It's always the case that something can be offered to me and it is declined but don't offer it to me and I want it. Sex, food, drugs, sleep...What is that? For months, and thousands of dollars ago, someone (La) has been trying to get me to go to the RE... more drugs... IVF if we have to... whatever. I have been resistant, a purist, patient...blah... blah. So now we finally decide to go over there, it's a very nice office, the staff is ultra friendly, includes LA in everything, even took our picture together, I'm feeling good about our decision... even a little foolish for not going sooner and we sit down with Dr. W and he says... let's do this. You call here on CD1 and we'll set you up for an u/s on CD12 to start monitoring your follies and then you start peos and then we'll do the insem. I'd like to do 3-4 cycles without meds. Are you serious??? I could have come over her 4 months ago for that!!! Ok, doctor, we have done this SEVERAL times, 3-4 more tries w/out meds seems like a long time and alot of money when we could have not been that far off ourselves, doing 2iui's most months. He says, well I'd like to do at least 2 cycles this way. {ok, slight huff inside}. I asked him about meds, explained that I have taken c.l.omid. off and on and never more than two months in a row and a couple rounds of f..em.era. He says.. since I ovulate on my own that Cl.o.mid is not the drug of choice for me and that over time it thins the lining of the uterus etc... {I know all that. My lining is fine. It has always been beefy on ultrasounds. that is not the problem. smile.} OK. we'll call you on CD1. Here is our $250 for your 10minutes. {Please let me be pregnant this time}.
Now for the drive home... each of us asking what the other thought...and I'll be damned if I'm not aggravated because I'm not getting shot up!!! A week ago I would have said oh I hope he doesn't offer me injectables right away. lord, have mercy. This plays a tole on the psyche.
Today is cd11. No signs yet except a little tender breasts last night.
2 comments:
It's TOTALLY annoying to have your previous experiences and your knowledge dismissed just so this doc can follow their own procedure. I know when we finally made it to a clinic after 9 tries at home, I was EXTREMELY frustrated at the slow pace of escalation.
I really hope you're knocked up and don't have to jump through more hoops.
After trying for nearly 6 years and being on clomid for EVER and miscarrying and being referred to a new doctor....the new doc says to me, we are taking you off clomid..I don't like how long you've been on it. And when they inseminated me that month with no clomid, she did an ultrasound of my ovaries and said...well, it looks like we missed it. oh and your ovaries don't look that great either.
THAT was the time I got pregnant with Sydney. Everything stacked against me.
I did injectibles trying for the boys and ended up doing IVF because we wanted same donors and were down to our last sample.
I'm telling you....there is no "right" or "wrong" answer here.
It's like fate has to step in and make things happen.
Fate will be stepping in for you. I hope this month. Just have faith.
Keep the faith.
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