It has been at least a year since I have last blogged. The last time I logged on here, there were several posts that maybe should not have been on here. I went crazy and deleted all of my posts. What I am about to post about over the next few weeks or months or year (who knows how long it will take) is for my benefit. I want to be able to remember everything that is/has/or will happen to Scott and I on our journey to parenthood. If you don't think I need to be sharing this information, then don't read it. I don't believe that fertility issues need to be a secret.
Scott and I have been trying to conceive for a long time now; but we have been seeing doctors for almost a year to see if either of us has a problem. My ob/gyn is fantastic. I highly recommend him to anyone looking for one. He was willing to prescribe to me the "Sears version" of fertility treatment. Dr. F. conducted blood tests, ultrasounds, and sent me for a hsg test. All of these tests came back "normal". With the results in hand, we determined that I would begin a course of using Clomid. Over the summer of 2012, I used Clomid in June with no luck. I took it again in July and low and behold it worked!!
Scott and I could not believe our eyes when the home pregnancy test showed a positive! We cried and couldn't wait to become parents. I had a blood test right away to test my hCg levels. The levels were a little low, so I needed to get tested three days later. They number should have more than doubled; to my dismay, they had not doubled. I had one more test a couple more days later. The news was devastating...I was having a miscarriage. My heart was broken. After 8 weeks of pregnancy, I had a miscarriage. In my mind, I was "over it", I didn't want to try again and I would have been okay with never having a child.
Dr. F. approved of me using Clomid one more time under his watch. So in December, I underwent my third round of Clomid. Unfortunately, it did not work. At this point, I took matters into my own hands. I called a well-known practice of Reproductive Endocrinologists and scheduled an appointment. Luckily, I had met one of the doctors in 2012. Dr. M. had conducted the hsg test for me.
Dr. M was awesome. He was very attentive to my needs and answered all of my questions. He took his time with me and we made a plan that I was comfortable with. Dr. M. had a bunch of blood work done and did a baseline ultrasound of my ovaries to check for cysts. I was cyst-free and ready to jump two feet into the "Nordstroms version" of fertility. I was going to use Clomid again, but with monitoring throughout the month.
Dr. M. had me come in a couple of times for ultrasound monitoring to track my follicle sizes and how many were mature that month. I had five follicles in total, but only two seemed to be big enough. I got a shot of hCg on the 27th of March. On the 28th, Scott and I went in for our first round of Intra Uterine Insemination (IUI). Then the long two week wait happened, which leads us to March 13th. On that day, I found out that my IUI did not work when I started my cycle. I was so upset and disappointed. I cried the whole time I was in the shower before work and then throughout the work day.
I called my doctor and he had me come in for another ultrasound to check for cysts again. There were no cysts in/on my ovaries, so I was given the all clear to start the process again.
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