Sarah, that's fantastic news!!! I'm self employed as well which is how we're funding our cycle

I took it for IUI, but it was prior to ov.

I took one dose and then I found this on the label:

"Estradiol has been assigned to pregnancy category X by the FDA. There are no controlled data in human pregnancy. Estradiol is contraindicated during pregnancy."

and

"This medicine is not effective in preventing or treating a tendency toward miscarriage nor the threat of miscarriage. This medicine must not be used during pregnancy because its use may result in birth defects or cancer later in the child's life (see CAUTIONS section). "

YIKES.

After I emailed my dr this info, he just said, "It's okay to take." But I'm not taking it anymore. I would rather not get pregnant, than make my child suffer with cancer. Yes, I am paranoid. But that's my job as a mom.

Clomid thinned my lining, so basically, I had to take estrace, or I never would have had any implantation.

Why would you take it after ov?

From the little I've read, it's not uncommon to be prescribed Estradiol after ovulation. And is used often for IVF cycles. It's good for your lining apparently.

It's weird because my lining was great the day before my IUI at 10mm.

Am I being unreasonable not taking this? Crap, the uncertainty is very stressful.

With a 10mm lining, no I don't think you're being unreasonable to skip it.

Remind me, are you doing IUI of IVF? If it's IUI, I wouldn't hesitate to skip it, but I know very little about IVF and I would really get a second opinion from a doc prior to skipping an IVF med. Maybe they are using the med for another purpose?

yes I seem to think they mentioned it for before ovulation, I think it was in the conversation about using it as a down reg medicine, nothing about after ovulation. with those side effects you wouldnt think it would be recommended after ov. urgghh this is so stressful JP!

Ready, I did an IUI on Monday.

Sarah, don't give up yet! Last week I had the 13mm with another 7 smaller ones on the right side. And then 2-3 smaller ones on the left.

Then when I went in on Sunday, the 2-3 smaller ones were both 18mm and the 13mm on the right side was still only 13mm. The dr said he's sees that all the time and there's no telling which follicles will do what.

It really does only take one. And I so hope this is the one for you!

This is post is in danger of being really long, but I wanted to tell y'all about my husband's sperm. LMAO. That sounds ridiculous.

My hubs has been having SA's for the past two years. I think he's had 4-5 of them. I wanted to see if his sperm was compromised by too much BDing so we had an SA done after abstaining for 3 days, and then another one BDing the night before. Turns out that the more BDing we have, the better his sperm is. It's always been good, but it's even better after BDing.

We BD'd on Saturday night, Sunday afternoon, then he "performed" into a cup at the lab. (Which he said was the most unsexy thing he's ever done.) And his prewash number was 106 million. That was after BDing like 16 hours earlier. His postwash number was like 35 million with 85% motility.

So, my point to all this is...if you have access to inexpensive - or better yet, insurance-covered SA's. Have a few done to see what BDing actually does to the numbers.

that very interesting, how much was the count when he abstained for 3 days?
mine went down.....4 days abstaining = 29 million, 85% motility, 1 day = 5 million, 55% motility (was frozen and thawed too so that would have lost some, but still the count was way down)

124.4 million after having sex about 10 hours earlier.

51.8 abstaining 3 days.

59.8 abstaining 2 days.

Weird right? Of course, this puts even more pressure on me to get my stuff together.

Luckily he's very accomodating. I think we've had sex 6-7 times in the past 3 days, poor guy. I just told him we're doing it again tonight, and he's like, "I'll try." lol I find it hilarious.