Clomid & male factor infertility

[Mamamirfy]

Hahaha you make me laugh. Your tummy is big already? Is it bloat from all this or baby? Boone mentioned drinking lotsa water to me but I normally drink 2ltrs a day but remembered u drinking loads so I upped it. Is it for stimming? I go in tomorrow for bloods and again on we'd for ultrasound. Can't wait for that one-I'll get an idea of follies they said collection should be between 16-18. Fill me in about scan, I'm sure everything will be great!

 

[Mamamirfy]

Just heard back from clinic. My bloods came back and they are upping my puregon from 175 units to 300 units. It has me worried.

 

[pink32]

dont worry they will do what your body can take to ensure maximum number of follies...i think they decreased my dose for 2 days and then i went back to normal....you'll be great...cant wait till ur EC....try not to stress it will all be great....
Ok so i had my scan yesterday and let me tell u i was so angry by the end of the whole process.

Firstly my FS asks me to take my pants off etc because he says best to do an internal ultrasound again. So i strip down and get myself ready. He then walks in the room with another Doctor (never seen here b4 i might add) and she starts doing the scan on my belly. I go i thought we were doing internal...they go oh yes but we'll try this...Ok so the monitor is not even facing me and i cant see what is going on - i'm trying to half sit to get a glance....DH goes "oh there it is" i go " i Cant see" (By this point i am Fuming) She then decides to move the monitor around....Great so i can finally see somthing. Then my FS starts talking to be about a Obstetric Doc and the lady doing the scan is finishing up and had already printed to little pics and we were all done....Oh my goodness i was sooooooooooo angry by this point...This whole ultrasound took less than 1 minute and they didnt talk through anything...They were talking to eachother and i got out of it that baby had a strong heart beat of 160 beats per minute - which is great! but then i saw on the pic that the baby's measurements were at 7 w and 5days? i asked why the measurements were this when i am 8w + 1 day...So they go nothing to worry about the machine is never as accurate at 8 weeks as what an internal scan is!!! WTF? So i am thinking "then WHY DIDNT U PPL DO AN INTERNAL THEN?! I Mean seriously....the ivf ppl feel like they are just fot the $$$....at least i wont have them the entire pregnancy i'll go crazy....

So that was my scan day yesterday. I have my 12 week scan on the 6th dec and bloods etc (to check for down syndrome) and this is a pretty indepth scan..... so i spoke to the lady this morning to book and asked about the baby's measurements and she assured me that measurements will always be a few days here or there. i feel a bit better now but last nite i couldnt sleep i was so stressed out....

Sorry for the rant, but i needed to get that off my chest, i felt like they just didnt care and i was looking forward to that scan for 2 weeks now and it was all over in less than a minute....anyways, hopefully my 12 week one will be a long and i will get to see a better view of bub....

how are u going with your injections? are u doing them on ur own or is dh doing them? they're so easy...DH did mine once or twice - because he wanted - but i found it less painfull when i did them myself...let me know how u are doing xoxoxo (thanks for listening to my rant)

 

[Mamamirfy]

I would be livid!!! How rude of them...don't they get that you have been waiting for this? That you are eagerly waiting to see your lil babe on the screen? You have ever right to be pissed. I'm glad you got pictures at least! Hopefully neither of them are involved with your 12 week scan.

My injections are ok - they jsut start to hurt a bit last night (third night) and I'm getting ready to do this round in an hour. My Menopur stayed the same dose but Puregon went up by alot. That's the $$$$ med so I'm hoping it doesn't stay at 300 units each day. I have to research it more to know why they did that. I guess me Estrogen levels didn't come back high enough. We shall see. I do them all myself.....I don't trust him to jab me lol.

 

[pink32]

lets hope your levels rise high enuf so you dont have to keep upping the dose!!! it's expensive but will be well worth it

 

[amirini]

I'm currently on my third iui cycle with clomid at 150 mg ..this has the effect of increasin the amount of eggs i produced.. currently i have 3 follies and ive taken my Ovadril shot. iui scheduled for wendsday. DH sperm counts post wash have been 10 mill -2 mill...

 

[Mamamirfy]

Hey pinky- how many follies did u have at your 6 day scan? I'm having mine in the am so I'm very excited! Did ur number increase as time went on?

 

[Mamamirfy]

Ok just got back from my scan. I'm running a couple days behind but they are hoping with the upped dosage that things will level out. I have 10-15 follicles with a handful being under 5mm the rest were between 7-9mm and one was 12. Im feeling disappointed . I realize it's not bad but I just want this to happen and now behind a couple days.

 

[Mamamirfy]

My estrogen went up from 242 onmonday to 548 today. I think it's still a bit low but it's improving so that's positive! Feel a bit better now

 

[pink32]

hey Mirf,
that sounds like a great amount of follies -the just need to grow now....the number of follies arent as important as the quality...i had between 10-13 on day6 and on EC they took out 13.....and 2 of mine got to blasts and hatched.....Yay! Great news for you - i'm soo happy! Now they will just mature and grow and they will take them out. Glad your eostrogen is rising too...Great news! you must be so happy! xoxo

 

[Mamamirfy]

Yes! Very happy......wish they were a bitbiggerbut they'll grow. Where the heck is silly?

 

[pink32]

they will grow definately! i was thinking the same thing re: silly! i hope she is ok?

 

[Mamamirfy]

I just looked back....she was going away for business but I don't think she normally goes this long. I hope she's alright.

 

[pink32]

yeh me too....how are you needles going? have ur eostrogen levels gone up anymore? you go in for check ups every 2nd day or so dont u? just checking as i'm not sure how different it is over there to here?

 

[Mamamirfy]

Yep, I go in every other day so I go in at 7am tomorrow morning...I'll know my results from scan right away but they usually call me around 11am to give me estrogen level. I start the third med tonight to stop me from ovulating......I hope my numbers have improved for tomorrow...i just want to be on schedule because I had it in my head I would be getting my egg collection nov 16-18. Eeek, so eager!

 

[Mamamirfy]

Well.......feeling discouraged, my follies grew but still small and only have 5 or 6 that are worth mentioning. I have one 16 but he said we'll miss it by the time the rest catch up. If they don't pick up by next spot they are cancelling. I can't believe all this.

 

[pink32]

Really??? I can't believe it either! Did they not give u a high enuf dose I wonder. You still have a few days to go so don't stress yet. I have my fingers crossed for u babe!!! When will u know for sure?

 

[Mamamirfy]

They started me at 175 and I was on that for 3 days......then they tested my blood and estrogen was low so they upped me to 300 and I seem to be going ok now but still behind. I'm guessing they should have had me at 300 from the start. I think I'll find out on Sunday what they'll do. They need to grow!!!

 

[hopefulchick]

Hey Pink,

Not sure if you remember me from the Clomid Virgin thread....
Just reading through your thread and see that you are pregnant. Congratulations Wishing you a happy and healthy pregnancy!!

 

[Mamamirfy]

Good news! Just had my Day 10 scans.....Dr. came in and said..."Ok, let's take a look and hope you're just a slow responder and not a low responder." I have never been so happy to be called "slow" in my life! My 16mm follie that he was afraid would grow too big by the time the rest caught up hasn't grown anymore and he was very happy. The rest have grown.....so I'm on meds for 2 more days and we will check again on Tuesday and if everything keeps going at this rate I will be getting egg retrieval on Thursday or Friday. I'm over the moon excited. There was no mention of cancelling. My uterine lining went from 6.5mm to 11.5 mm in two days and I'm waiting on estrogen level but he says he just think it's took me a bit longer than average. Update: just got estrogen level. Its gone up to 1894 from 926 two days ago. Still low but it's been doubling every two days since day 6 so it just took me a bit longer than normal. I have nine follies.....3 are small but this is soooo much better than my news from Friday. Yahooo!

How are you feeling Pink? Any more news? Belly growing? I have heard from a few people that we do start to show earlier, I guess from all the meds making us bloated and it never going down? I'm not sure.