Finally saw the doc..

We finally got to visit with the urologist today and learned basically nothing new. He put us on a regiment of sudaffed that will hopeful help my dh have antergrade ejaculations. Which means the sperms comes out instead of staying in. The regiment includes him taking about two suddafed 2x a day. This should help to tighten and tone his bladder neck. our fingers are crossed and hopefully our prayers will be answered.

Quick update

Hey ya'll, i know i have been AWOL for a while but i have been capital B U S Y! i mean really. working two jobs and extra hours to try and save the money we need to achieve my goals like our upcoming trip to New York and saving for fertility treatments. Our current task right now on that front is to find a urologist that specializes in reproduction. We found one but every time we schedule a appointment we get cancelled on! The last time this Monday, We were there at the office which we had to drive 45 minutes to get to, and i see i have a missed call (i guess the music was a lil loud during the trip) while waiting to sign-in in the lobby i listen to the message stating that the doc has stepped out for a emergency! I was LIVID! The poor reception wanted me to reschedule for three more weeks! i said NO WAY THIS IS THE THIRD TIME!! So she squeezed us in next week. If we don't see this doctor AND get good news on our situation. I'M GOING OFF!. What we hope to happen is that we try medication to reverse the retrograde ejaculation, If not i want a sperm analysis done to see if it would do any good to try IUI, if not we will go for IVF again. Pray For Us.

Time for a change

Well you guys i know it has been a while but i come bearing news. Lately we have no success with trying to get any semen from my husband so we are scheduling an appointment with a new urologist and we are also looking into IUI with clomid. shopping around is key to us right now and hopefully we will have a new game plan by the new year.

Sceduled!

Well we have a update. Since this cycle was a comp let bust we decided to take it to the next level. We have scheduled a appointment with a urologist who is supposed to have some knowledge in retrograde ejaculation and treatment so we will be seeing him in about a week and a half.Wish us luck!

Sux to be us

Well it's back to the docs. Me and my DH have been unsuccessful in getting just about any sperm out this cycle which puts all y other preparations in the crapper. Maybe a urologist can give us a little more insight and better drugs that can prove to be more effective.

TTC Cycle #3

Well you guys here we go again. I'm at cycle day 8. We are hitting up another cycle and we are going full force ahead. We are doing a few things different and implementing a few new things. Both me and my husband are taking Geritol in the tonic form instead of the pill form that we have been taking. We are also going to start using the Instaed Softcups. We will be using these to hold the "seed" closer to the cervix for a extend period of time to increase the chance of conception. I'm trying to give my husband's lil swimmers as much help as i can. Pray for us!

THA BITCH IS BACK

So my period started today. i guess since my ivf ended my periods have changed from 31 days to 25-26 days!

Houston, We have a problem...

Well i think i have figured out the problem as far as my temps you guys. This morning i got the idea to take my temp using my old thermometer with the (00.0) reading and the new thermometer with the (00.00) reading. The read outs were completely different. The new one gave me 97.04 and the old one gave me 97.4 which in the charting world is the different between night and day. maybe this is why i have no definite cover line on my fertility friends website. I will include a link so you can see the difference between last months chart and this month. Let me know what you think.


http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/28d8c9

LH Surge?

I just did another Ovulation test and it is a definite positive!! What's up with that! My husband can only do two BD per cycle and he has done those two. If this cycle is a dud then we know why. We were saving one of our BD for our LH surge which we did yesterday so hopefully we were able to get something from this.

Slight Rise

Well i had a slight rise in my temps but i didn't recieve my coverline on fertilityfriends.com. Maybe tommrow's temp will be higher and i will recieve my coverline. If i did ovulate at that time (CD 15) then we will be good to go becaude we did our BD a good 2-3 days before which is that best time...

Ovulation...Already?

I don't know what's going on with my body this cycle i had an early period and i feel i have experienced a early ovulation. I'm currently on CD 17 if you go according to my early AF and for the last two days my temps have risen! Last cycle i ovulated at CD 16 So if I ovulated when my temps started to rise that would put me at ovulating on cycle day 15-16. If tomorrow's temps are higher then i will get my cover line on fertility friends and that will confirm ovulation has occur ed. The thing is i didn't have any positive ovulation test until today i think i got a positive. Whatever.... all will come to the light in the morning.. TBC ( to be continued...)

Still on it

i know it has been a while but I'm still here..Me an my DH are continuing with our natural trying to conceive journey. We are currently on CD 15 and i have yet to get a positive LH surge i think due to the fact my period started five days early. Me and my DH did our modified BD Friday and we will again tomorrow and again whenever i get my LH surge. Stay tuned

What's next

OK last cycle was a bust but we are going to use it as our jump off point. It wasn't a complete lost because we learned valuable information that we will use this cycle and improve upon our mistakes. We will step up our timing and take our vitamins and supplements up a notch. Today i went and bought a digital basal thermometer that take the temp to the hundredth instead of to the tenth like the thermometer i used last cycle. I like this one because it's easier to use and it provides a more accurate reading. It only cost about 7-8 dollars from Wal-mart so think that was a good deal.

As far as my supplements last cycle i was taking Geritol and my husband was suppose to be taking his One a Day Mens but he told me he stopped for reasons unknown. But I explained to him that the Vitamins were to help his sperm volume and morphology. Since he has diabetes there could be a problem with his morphology that could cause his sperm not to penetrate the egg or if it does cause the pregnancy not to be viable. So to pump up the supplements we both will start taking Maca supplement 850 mg daily, I will take my regular Geritol along with Folic Acid and Vitamin C and my DH will take his Men one a days. and we see where this takes us. Holla

To be or not to be..

Well that question has been answered today in the form of Aunt Flo.
She came quite unexpectedly seeing as she is about three to five days early. i wasn't expecting this at all. I guess my system is thrown all out of whack. I'm wondering if this is going to change my cycle days from 31 to 28? if so will i have to change my expected ovulation dates? I guess we will have to monitor my temps and CM to check that out and make sure don't miscalculate for our next cycle...until next time

9 DPO Too early to test?

well today I'm 9 dpo and I'm feeling fine. I still have the most tender nipples i have ever had...I mean they are painful. Usually during my cycles while I'm PMSing i have some tenderness to the breast but never this much. Right now i can have on my bra and two shirts and if some thing pressed my chest it agony! I have had a Fish dream so you guys who follow the old wives tale some one i know is pregnant or will be..since the fish in the dream were in my pool my mom said the one pregnant will be me.. I sure hope so. Other then the sore breast i have had some slight cramps, creamy CM, some lower back pain (usually when I'm PMSing i will have a backache while lying in bed that will signal to me an upcoming period..Hasn't happen yet) umm let me think...Oh yeah i planned on taking a HPT tomorrow but i was so antsy i went and took one at 11pm which was crazy i know but i just wanted to do it to ease my mind. I wasn't to disappointed i think i saw a very faint line I'm not sure if my mind was playing tricks on me. I'll be testing again in the morning with my FMU to get a lil more accurate accounting on that... Thats all i have for now..til next time ..smooches

Just posting to keep sane

Well to day i went to work and barley wanted to get out of bed. I was up kinda late because i really wanted to finish a new Linda Howard book i had gotten from the library. I work as a cashier in a warehouse store and there is a lot of heavy lifting going on. While working i tried to take it easy but after a half hour or so i started to get discomfort in my lower pelvic area and this feeling extended down my left leg at this point i stopped doing the lifting and just did my cashiering duties. Later that day i experience a extreme hot flash to the point where i started to sweat all down my back which was weird to me since i was just standing there and not doing anything. I also bought some pineapple juice and some fresh pineapple spears from my work place because i heard it helps with implantation and uterine health. That's all for now stay tuned..

Symptom???

Well i noticed that my nipples have been very very sore...I'm sorry if that a lil TMI but you know what you were getting into. This is not something that is normal for me since my breast are kinda large i don't usually have very much sensation even when I'm PMSing. Right now they are sore when my husband even touches them and they are chafed from my bra....hmm we'll see

Waiting time begins again

Well we are beginning the waiting game again..Yes the dreaded 2ww! I'm ready for it and pray that the time flys. We are taking it easy as we can but with my work and my work-out i try to stay as moderate as possible and not go hard care as i do sometimes. I have experienced some very light cramps but it may just be ovulation pains or PMS pains so well find out in a bit. I also have been eating ALOT but that may also be a regular PMS symptom of mine due to the body metabolism increasing due to a lot of activity going on preparing the uterine lining..so stay tuned..I plan on taking my HPT on August 8, only eight days away. Prayers please!!

Another modified BD

Well today this morning we had another modified baby dance with the aid of or trusty eye dropper and suddefed. We didn't have as good of a sample that we had Sunday but any little bit helps. We had a positive ovulation test but my temperature this morning was the same that it was yesterday so i thing that i need to get a Basel thermometer. We won't be doing anymore BD's due to the meds so my DH is gonna get a lil break. So it's on to the 2ww. If this cycle doesn't work we are going to next time do our modifies BD when the ovulation test proves positive because Sunday i didn't have a positive LH surge. So I'll keep you updated...Stay tuned...

TTC update here we go...

Well today i got a definite positive on my ovulation test and me and my DH did a traditional BD. We will be doing the modified BD in the morning. Fertility friends websites says we have between today and Thursday. I have been taking my Basel temperature every morning and i have yet to receive a ovulation spike. i think the reason for this may be that I'm using a thermometer that even though it is a digital thermometer it wasn't bought labeled as a Basel thermometer. If this cycle is not successful i plan on buying a Basel thermometer. That's all i have for now. Stay tuned....

We Are go....I think

Well today was our first modified baby dance...Modified because we didn't have sex...
How is this effective in the baby making you ask?
Well what we did was have my DH ejaculate in a little cup then using a eye dropper we deposited the sample into my vagina near the crevix.
Why did we do this you ask...
Because my DH suffers from retrograde ejaculation...
And the only way we can get the semen to come out is by having him take a half a dozen suddafed tablets..
And one of the side effects of taking that many tablets is constriction of the blood vessels which make it difficult for him to maintain an erection...
So...hence the modified baby dance...
Surprising isn't it..
We just hope it works...
Experience menstrual like cramps after the deposit was made, probably due to me placing the semen within the uterus which acts as an irritant..Oops!
Better next time....
I still haven't have an confirmed ovulation but i expect it sometime this week..
GOD i pray this works!!

I'm Still Here...

Yes, I'm still here but I've been busy just with life and work... I'm still on my TTC journey i have just not had much to report. I have joined a website that helps you plot and graph your temperature and ovulation to help you in gauging when you ovulate. I have been doing that steadily. Currently I'm on day 10 of my cycle... I'm schedule to ovulate starting Sunday but we'll see how that works out. OK gotta go get ready for my job interview TTYL!!

CD 3- Ovulation Charting

This morning I began Taking my Basal Temp and notating on a chart i downloaded and printing off the net. Here is the link. www.thevenusweek.com/pdfs/Venus_Tracking_Chart.pdf

CD 3

Well it's after midnight and i am still doing research how to conceive using calenders and thermometers and OPK's and all of that. Hopefully well get some results here. I also have some other goals i wish to obtain during this time. Like:

1. Learn to Crochet
2. Cut as much sugar and processed foods from my diet as possible.
3. Get back on my workout regiment
4. Lose about 5lbs
5. Find a Full time job
6. Clear my face of this relentless breakout.
7. Investigate the cost of going back to school.

Those are just a few of the things i have buzzing around my head. I try to clear my mind of all the clutter but sometimes i think i thrive on high levels of stress or at least high impact work load. But i take it easy when i need to believe me.

My first (second) blog

Hi for those who followed me on my IVF blog( http://amirini-myivfjourney.blogspot.com/) you know that my first attempt at IVF was an utter failure. But we won't let that keep us down. We are going keep it rolling and attempt at a more natural method of conception. Stay tuned...