[CLOSED] ex-SMEP ladies waiting for lightening to strike.

Hey guys just wanted to give you guys an update I just got back from the ER I had some bleeding today and got worried. Well there is a little bleed where the placenta is at the doc said its quit normal in early pregnancy. We seen the heart beat and everything. I have to take it easy and see my ob tomorrow. Hope all will be fine in the end.
 
Oh you poor thing :hugs: Sorry to hear about your scare, hope everything will be ok! Spotting IS very common in early pregnancy in fact another BnB pal had some this weekend too after sex, spoke to her midwife and things are better today. :thumbup:
 
Thanks ladies hopefully we all get what we want very soon & sorry for the scare Akayj continue to take it easy & take care
 
I have an appt with my ob at 1:40 see what he says. Haven't had anymore bleeding yet so that has to be a good thing:)!
 
Akayj - take it easy and let us know what your doc says. I've also heard it's incredibly common. Just follow the doctor's advice. :hugs:

AFM - Just had the weirdest cycle start...AF only lasted for 2 days + 1 day of spotting. Not sure what is going on with that...Appointment with my doc tomorrow at 4. She doesn't know it, but this is her facility's last chance to keep me as a patient.
 
Everything is fine :)! Just going to take it easy as possible. :thumbup:
 
Well...had my appointment with the specialist today.

She doesn't want to do any follow-up blood work. She still maintains that you should only supplement progesterone AFTER pregnancy confirmations (to me it just sounds counter intuitive if the baby can't implant...I might get a second opinion on that). She FINALLY investigated the polyp and reference of stenosis that the radiologist gave me. She said I'm not stenotic, that the polyp at most is 5mm and then she attempted to pass an IUI catheter through. She realized at that point that I'm just not built as a "straight shot". She was able to thread it all the way, verifying that there should be nothing getting in the way of his swimmers making their way up.

She also thinks I'm stressing out too much about conceiving, which is hurting my chances of conceiving. She suggested I look into a support group.

Path forward: I need to redo the HSG with an RE's office. Hubby needs to do another SA after the end of this month. They said if my tubes come back clear (she thinks my right went into a spasm OR that enough dye wasn't used), that there's nothing really to do with my anatomy if I'm appearing to ovulate regularly. She recommended Clomid to try and get a "better" egg. If hubby's SA comes back at the same or worse levels as last time, they recommend going straight to an IUI situation due to motility/morphology. If his comes back improved, we're going to be recommended for clomid and timed intercourse.

We are actually going to request Clomid and our timing (using OPKs) for a few months before theirs even though this doctor doesn't like doing that.

We want a little one, but we want it to be as natural a conception as we can have.
 
Sounds like you got some answers and a plan down. Are you going to get a 2nd opinion from that specialist that called youu back?
 
Not 100%. I have to get the HSG done at a RE office this go around. I'm debating on whether or not I'll contact that facility or the one where hubby got the last SA done. They both should have it.

I've just felt so much better just knowing that the polyp is insignificant enough that they could get the tube through. With the exception of this horrid fatigue tonight, I almost feel on top of the world.

The fear that hubby's boys might be the issue makes me sad though. I know how bad the last several months have been for me with the stigma of not being able to produce children for my husband. If it turns out to be his numbers, he'll be crushed.

Please pray that his counts are up and wonderful so that we can just keep on trying rather than deal with IUIs and such. I don't want that pressure or pain on him.
 
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I understand...I'm hoping the supplements we are trying and keeping OH's...ahem..."area" cool will help bring his numbers up. We are going to test again in 2 months. I found Scrotum Cooling Patches online! :haha:
 
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I understand...I'm hoping the supplements we are trying and keeping OH's...ahem..."area" cool will help bring his numbers up. We are going to test again in 2 months. I found Scrotum Cooling Patches online! :haha:

:rofl: ball chillers! How are the reviews on them?
 
Keeping my fingers crossed for you, ProfWife! I hope SA is improved this round. I was wondering when you mentioned wanting to start progesterone before BFP (I've though the same thing), how long is your luteal phase?
 
It runs 13-15 days with 14 being my norm.

I thought the number I got came back low on my equivalent of a CD21 test (it was actually like CD24 since I'm a bit irregular). Looking back in my files, since I wasn't temping, I think I actually may have been at 10dpo rather than 7dpo, which would be enough of a change that it would have been dropping since we didn't conceive.

I have a few friends who were put on progesterone prior to implantation because their levels were too low to support a pregnancy. The natural family planning consult I was seeing also said the tail-end brown bleeding I have monthly had something to do with low progesterone, which manifests as estrogen dominance (PCOS). So, I really wanted my doctor to look into that, but she seems to think it's not a viable concern.
 
You know I didn't even look up reviews :dohh: lol I only looked up research information and one study showed "two-fold" increase (if memory serves me correctly)....basically...it was enough for me to want to give it a try :thumbup:

I actually suggested an ice pack to OH first...then thought "hmmm, will the ice pack hurt anything", so I googled ice pack to scrotum or something like that and found the patches. They haven't gotten here yet. I went with only 8 so he can try them out before we commit to a whole months worth lol
 
My doctor is the same with the progesterone suppositories, ProfWife. As soon as I get a BFP, she'll call in a progest prescription but not before a BFP. I only have a 10 day LP, so I'm also interested in why one has to wait for the BFP for prescription progesterone. I've tried progesterone cream, but I found I just started having breakthrough spotting when AF was due, so it didn't seem to help.
 
Lionchild...oh my gosh...I tries Pro-Gest last cycle...I've NEVER had my bb's be that sore. It hurt to walk around. Plus I think it made my temps almost unreadable. I wasn't overly impressed.

Once we hit the year mark, RE's will start to take us seriously (I hate that flipping rule...but that's another story) and actually ALLOW us to have consults with them. At that point I'm hoping to have a serious discussion as to why some doctors are okay with having the progesterone from 5 dpo rather than after a BFP.
 
Let me know if you find out an answer about the timing of the progesterone.

I tried Pro-Gest too. I hated it, but I can't get the prescription suppositories without a BFP either. :dohh: I'm just hoping to get lucky with an early implantation. That's why it's worth it for me to test early (once I go back to TTC), so I can get on progesterone cream immediately.
 
It's been so quiet lately. I hope everyone is okay!! What's the scoop ladies?

I'm on my first day of a full fern AND EWCM (of course, the day before we leave for his parents' house). Temp is still low. I'll be getting up an hour before normal temp time tomorrow; so, I'll be adjusting tomorrow's temp for certain.

Now onto the fun...I don't mind packing for myself; however, packing for me AND the hubs since he's working late is daunting.
 
I was thinking the same thing and was planning on getting over here ALL day! Just a busy day at work and on the boards. We are always pretty quiet when no one is in the tww or have anything specific going on.

I got a great pos IC OPK yesterday and backed it up with a digi :thumbup: Today I had an awesome temp drop, hoping it wasn't a fluke...but it shouldn't be...I went to bed on time and slept well. So that means tomorrow I should get a spike [-o<

We've BD's every 3 days for one week, then every 2 days and then the last 3 days! Gonna try to get today in and if I don't get a spike tomorrow then we will do tomorrow too.

My referral for infertility was approved :happydance: So hopefully within the next month (if I don't get my BFP) I'll get a more extensive eval, than just the u/s I had done which was normal. I'm actually nervous about going. I don't want them to just ignore me because I've been off depo for less than a year...I've been ovulating every month (6 cycles) going by OPKs and charting. AF has come exactly 11-12 days after what I think are my OV days, so I think the depo IS out of my system. My 1st few cycles were light but are now back to normal. So we'll see.

Good luck this cycle! So by full fern...are you doing the fern microscope?
 

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