Back on the IVF Train

Well it looks like its back to the drawing board. After about 4 comple iui cycles we have not been able to achieve the goal of pregnancy. Due to DH count and mobility it seems ludicrous to move forward and waste time and money with further IUI cycles. Due to this revelation we have decided to move forward with another IVF cycle. We hope we can save up the funds need for the procedure and meds by Sept. We are surviving right now on the bare minimum and hopefully with all this scrimping and saving no surprises will pop up and throw off the budget. Already DH car is acting up, but we are going to take that to my daddy shop and hopefully he will help us out with this one.

I'm Still Here!!

Hello you guys I'm still here and continuing on my journey. So far we or on IUI # 3.. 5 days post IUI actually.. We are praying for a miracle with this one because the sperm count was really low. I produced about 3 eggs with 150 mg clomid and a sperm count of 1.4 mil mobile sperm..

3 days post iui

i had my second complete iui done this past friday as i predicted. the RE said i must have deployed about 3 of my eggs. my hubby's post wash mobile sperm count was only 2.5 million. so our fingers are crossed and we are praying every night for a miricle.

Follie Check up

Soooo today i had my follicle check at day 12 of my cycle after 100 mg of clomid ( two white tabs ) from day 3-7...and i was really excited with the results. i wasn't expect really any growth in my follicles because i wasn't feeling much discomfort and the cramp/gassy feeling i had with my other two clomid cycles. So when my RE inserted the 'Probe" ....;D ... And i saw those dark spots i was really surprised. my first cycle (incomplete) cycle i had about two follies on the right and one on the left..last cycle i had two big and one lil one on the left side and none on the right...So today's scan revealed ( i took down the sizes today) Left side: (1) 13.23mm, (2) 10.80 mm...Right Side (1) 12.22, (2) 16.99, (3) 14.69, (4) 9.79!!!! so I'm really excited and extra hopeful that one of these will be my lil peanut.. y'all pray for me.

It's a bust

This cycle was a bust. I BFN and monster cramps from AF today. My hubby is so depressed I don't know what to do with him. We are going to try again next month but I'm cutting it close with my sick days at work with my vacation to New York coming up. My attendance at work is never usually a problem but this cycling is taking over my life and I'm really hoping my supervisors don't grow too suspicious of my numerous doctors appointments. I think they believe i have cancer or something..I do have a pituitary tumor but that's under control but I'll pull it out of a bag if i have to..... oh well it's back to the drawing board of 100 mg of clomid. Scan on day 12, trigger on day 14 and iui probably on day 16 if it's anything like the last two cycles. Pary for us

3 DAYS POST IUI

TODAY I AM 3 DAYS POST IUI AND 6 DAYS POST TRIGGER. i AND SO IMPATIENT AND STRIVE TO STAY CALM UNTIL WE CAN TEST. I HAVE BEEN TEMPING AND S FAR MY TEMPS HAVE BEEN STEADILY INCREASING AND I REALLY WANT TO TEST NOW EVEN IF IT'S A FALSE POSITIVE JUST TO ONCE SEE THOSE TWO LINES... :((
BUT I'LL WAIT CAUSE I HAVE TO SAVE MY MONEY AND DON'T REALLY HAVE ANY TO WASTE.
I HAVE HAD A FEW SYMPTOMS LIKE BLOTTING, GAS, A FEW CRAMPS AND FREQUENT URI NATIONS.. AND OFF AND ON LOWER BACK PANGS.. WE'LL HAVE TO WAIT AND SEE IF THEY ADD UP TO ANYTHING..

I'm back and in effect

Well i have been off my blog and not doing much as far as documenting my journey but i haven't been sleeping on my baby making ya'll.
Just today i was inseminated with a iui... my very first and hopefully i shouldn't need an other for a couple of years.
I ovulated about 3 eggs thanks to God and clomid at 100 mg.
My hubby produced a sample of more than 5 million sperm which my Doctor said was good.
So i will keep you guys posted on my day by day progress as for as symptoms and whatever else.
I'm so excited and so is the hubby .. i think right now he is a lil afraid even to hope for a baby. But the Lord will see us through.
I really like this new doctor. i think i picked a good one this time . i noticed that with the old RE if i had a scan or visit i would never see her. i would only see her at the actual procedure, With this doctor the only person to scan me or treat me was him. and only him i don't know if it is because he is a man or what.... who know. any way ima stay on my knees and pray myself pregnant

THE RESULTS ARE IN.....

The results to my dh SA came in and the results look "promising" that was the doctor's words. He said the count was about 20-30 million!! with 20% mobility. So i think all systems should be go with an IUI!! Pray for us!!

Next Step..

Well today we went to the lab and had my hubby's semen analysis done. we have to wait until Thursday until we get our results back but we are praying for at least 10 million count, with good health so we can move forward with our dream of IUI! Pray for us

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...)