Tested three days ago 12DPO... BFN. Tested yesterday... BFN.... This morning my period started... CD1.... sad :-(
I am about to call the RE office which is what we are instructed to do on CD1. If you remember this RE is treating us like we just started this process and wants to do 4 'natural' cycles. La and I sat last night as I felt my period looming and counted back. We did our first ICI in May 2006. Nine tries over the course of a year and May 2007 we were pregnant. That pregnancy ended in August and we started trying again Dec 2007. So here we are one year later, that's 12 IUI's in the last year. I think we qualify for something else. These RE 'natural' cycles are no different whatsoever from what we have been doing with the exception of a follicle check on CD12 and having to pay someone I don't know $200 to hold the syringe and push the 'trigger'.
That all being said, I am planning to call and say....We want something else. He has already said he would use FSH injections as our next step. We were trying to think back last night if any of you have used them and we could not remember. If you have, will you share your experience?
We'll see what they say... damn the next steps scare me.
La wanted to post this video, but when I watch it I feel like I can't breathe, so I didn't want her to put it up. These are the times we would like to have individual blogs. This is the link, but big warning to TTC'ers, it may suck your air out too.
**Update**
Called the RE. Spoke to the nurse. She offered me injectables or IVF. Either way the new process would start tomorrow. I need a sign. I need a drink. I need something. Maybe we should skip. We are going to D.C. for the inauguration. Maybe all that altitude is not good for TTC. I don't know. She said she thought we got way more bang for our buck with IVF even though it is $7,000 more than injectables. Oh what to do...
5 comments:
I am so sorry.
If I had it to do all over again, I think I might have gone straight for ivf...I can't give you the whys though. At the time I didn't want to go right to ivf because I was afraid to run out of tries...but now that I have run out, I wish I just would have pulled the big guns out in the first place.
hugs
I would have jumped and done IVF. Too many wasted years. Too much damn money.
Whatever you decide to do is the right decision for your family.
LOVED the song by the way.
I can't wait to hear what you decide to do.
I'm sorry to read your news.
I did injectable FSH and IVF. It was the IVF that worked for me in the end, but I have to say that the injectables were easy to manage, gave me no side effects, grew 2 or 3 good follicles each time and felt much more hopeful somehow than unmedicated IUIs. For us, they were significantly cheaper than IVF (UK, self-funding, private clinic) so it seemed sensible for us to give them a try first. I wish we'd tried them sooner, but by that point, a year and a half in, after 2 we were more than ready to move on to IVF. Which was ok and not as scary as I anticipated either. Good luck with whatever you decide.
We did two cycles of injectibles with no luck, IVF worked the first time.... so my vote would be IVF. But, you gotta do what you feel is right. Either way, good luck.
Happy New Year to you both!
i'm with KJ, i'd pull out the big guns, wasted time + money = IVF.
If i were you, i would skip this cycle since you already have plans to go to DC and I would plan on IVF for your Feb cycle. Hopefully it will work for you on the first try so that you may have frozen embryos to transfer in the future for a sibling. If not, hopefully you'll have frozens left for a 2nd transfer.
Good luck with whatever you guys decide...
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