March IUI Thread!

Hi Ladies,

I havent' posted much other than a quick hello earlier in the month, but i have been "Stalking" the post because we haven't had much going on our selves besides waiting and not in the Tww way. this was my first month ever taking clomid, and we were just waiting to see if 50mg would work so... it did, well sort of. we had an u/s this morning cd14 and we have 1 follicle. it is not as much as i would have liked to see, but 1 follicle could be enough right? it measured 13mm and my lining was good. the dr didn't seem concerned about the size even though i have read about some people having much larger follicles. we go for another us on thursday and if all is still well we will have our first iui on Sat or sunday! yay. this is the first time in a very long time i feel like we are actually making progress!

good luck ladies, my fingers are crossed for all of us!

This is my second iui. Hopefully we will be bump buddies! I'm sure your follies will be fine. They only did the scan on me one time, the month before my first iui. They wanted to make sure my opks were reading me right and that everything was looking like it should. I totally thought the u/s was gonna be worse than what it wad cause of the whole "internal" thing but it was actually easier and better than a pap smear...thank goodness. Then I was wondering all day what all was going on and just knew it wasn't going to be good but everything was great. All of my hormones were really high...way above what they wanted, and my lining was good. I ended up having 4 follies at 22, 27, 28, and 29. So I was pleasantly surprised. So don't worry. I'm sure you will have good result too. They haven't scanned me since, but all of my O symptoms are the same, just getting stronger every month. So I assume I'm still pumping out lots of juice...lol. The iui is easy too, again way worse in my mind. I thought it was gonna be like an hsg which I hated having done. But they didn't have to blow open my cervix with a balloon like the hsg either. I have a tendency to just let my mind run away from me...lol. Believe it or not I'm very optimistic...about everyone else...lol. Still working on that.

Jessesgirl, I think your follicle is making good progress as long as O isn't here yet. My fs said a mature follicle is 16, so by this weekend I think you should be there. Were Oing before the clomid?

Originally Posted by Jessesgirl

Hi Ladies,

I havent' posted much other than a quick hello earlier in the month, but i have been "Stalking" the post because we haven't had much going on our selves besides waiting and not in the Tww way. this was my first month ever taking clomid, and we were just waiting to see if 50mg would work so... it did, well sort of. we had an u/s this morning cd14 and we have 1 follicle. it is not as much as i would have liked to see, but 1 follicle could be enough right? it measured 13mm and my lining was good. the dr didn't seem concerned about the size even though i have read about some people having much larger follicles. we go for another us on thursday and if all is still well we will have our first iui on Sat or sunday! yay. this is the first time in a very long time i feel like we are actually making progress!

good luck ladies, my fingers are crossed for all of us!

One of the lovely ladies on her ( and i googled it) said follies grow 1/2 mm per day so with that info it looks really good!

No Doubt are you doing any meds? I guess I should read your journel and that would tell me

Lol...I take clomid. I was Oing by myself but my gyno put me clomid around 11 months in...just the way she does it I guess. And had the sa done on dh. My fs has kept me on clomid because it increases the chances of conception. Hubbys sa was low normal, 23mil, then his second one was 13mil. The first iui was 1.2mik prewash, but we had been bding for the three days prior...everyday cause no one told us not to. So we figure this cycle with abstaining a couple of days will help. So this turnout she be better than the first iui, which will hopefully mean conception...fxd. But luckily his swimmers are strong.

Thats great! They told us to bd before the IUI but DH swimmers are aparently mega swimmers. I dont O so thats are issue. The IUI is more to make sure there getting where they need to go and the timeing thing. Do you go for an u/s?

No...they only did the u/s the cycle before we did the first iui. It was a "test" cycle to make sure everything looked good, and also so that the insurance will cover as much as possible...lol. So all we have to pay for is the iui itself which is great. My body is like me...lives on a schedule...same every month so I'm pretty sure everything is doing what it's supposed to. Its weird cause I used to have really irregular cycles. I remember when I was maybe 20 I had skipped 5 cycles and thought I was pregnant for sure and that the stupid sticks were wrong...lol...what I wouldn't give to have that "problem" now. I finally saw a gyno who knew what she was doing and she diagnosed me with pcos and put me on birth control...GREAT!...kill two birds with one stone. But when I swore off sex I quit taking it and the irregular cycles returned. Weird thing is when I got married it all stopped and I've been like clockwork ever since. My fs said dh cured me...lol. I figure it was just my body getting ready for this journey and the ones to follow.

Well, I'm trying to stay positive, but I got a call today from my little brother, his wife is pregnant. This has sent me in a tail spin, I'm honestly devastated

I knowing hearing others stories can be difficult so I won't tell you to not have feelings about that. Just try to stay up beat and positive though. Just because she's preggo doesn't mean that you aren't. You never know, maybe you and your brother and gonna have little ones around the same time, who will grow up to be like siblings.

I know it's hard espectially when you are talking about family cause you don't want to turn away from them or separate yourself, but it is hard. My brother has popped out three kids in the time that we've been trying. He had a set of twins, and little girl with another woman he was not in a relationship with. This is on top of the 11 year old he already has. So I COMPLETELY understand. But I always make sure to ask him how this kids are and listen to all the stories he tells me. Honestly now that they're here and I hear about the things they do that he used to do, or even that I used to do, it melts my heart a bit.

Hopefully you will be able to pick yourself back up and get your pma back. Who knows maybe they've passed the dust along to you