Femara Friends!

[Lucyinsky]

Just announced our news to family and friends on FB last night, feels so good not to keep it a secret any longer!!!

LOL also found out DH mother had already been telling people lol, she was too excited!!!!

And DH says that he was going to let her find out the gender, um no... No one will know until it is here!!!!!!!!

So exciting, congrats!!

 

[Lucyinsky]

So another this morning...on the bright side I can stop taking the endometrin for a few weeks. It made me a crazy person haha. I think DH and I are going to try IUI this month. The doc will be out of the office for about ten days so I may have to do a few days of bc to hold off af until he gets back.
Can anyone share their experience with IUI? Cost? Does it have a much higher rate of success than ti? DH sperm count is great but morphology is just ok. Is it as painful as an HSG?
Any info appreciated thanks ladies!

 

[Grateful365]

Barbie - Awe! Its so fun telling family and friends. So are YOU not wanting to know the gender....or are you just wanting you and DH to know and surprise everyone else?

 

[Blackbarbie04]

Grateful we are not finding out as well. I'm not going to even tell his mother about the 19 weeks appointment when they do the revealing. I'm going to make sure I tell the tech not to tell me, I just want to see how big my baby has gotten and what he/she is doing. I'm not pressured to find out anyway as we have to build another room, so it's not like I can start decorating or anything yet anyways... So, honestly I'm really not that anxious right now to know, but when it comes time to have him/her I will be!!!!

 

[LolaM]

So another this morning...on the bright side I can stop taking the endometrin for a few weeks. It made me a crazy person haha. I think DH and I are going to try IUI this month. The doc will be out of the office for about ten days so I may have to do a few days of bc to hold off af until he gets back.
Can anyone share their experience with IUI? Cost? Does it have a much higher rate of success than ti? DH sperm count is great but morphology is just ok. Is it as painful as an HSG?
Any info appreciated thanks ladies!

I have a uterus didelphys and my fallopian tubes are sticking straight up in the air like antennae. I had a few IUIs with my own GYN, and it cost me $220 including a semen wash. It was only painful when he released the sperm, he said it was because they were bouncing off the walls of my fallopian tubes. it was minimally painful and not nearly as painful as my HSG. my dr said that is has a higher rate than TI but its a small percentage. my husband has large numbers of healthy happy sperm, but my fallopian tubes and ovaries do not live near each other, so the egg just floats around in outter space, rather than being send down the shoot like its supposed to.

 

[Grateful365]

So another this morning...on the bright side I can stop taking the endometrin for a few weeks. It made me a crazy person haha. I think DH and I are going to try IUI this month. The doc will be out of the office for about ten days so I may have to do a few days of bc to hold off af until he gets back.
Can anyone share their experience with IUI? Cost? Does it have a much higher rate of success than ti? DH sperm count is great but morphology is just ok. Is it as painful as an HSG?
Any info appreciated thanks ladies!

Lucy - I haven't done an IUI but just wanted to share that my DH had very low 3% strict morphology and we still got a BFP...There was a study done showing that males who ate walnuts had improved morphology. I had DH eat them a month or two before we got our BFP....so perhaps there is something to that.

 

[Blackbarbie04]

So another this morning...on the bright side I can stop taking the endometrin for a few weeks. It made me a crazy person haha. I think DH and I are going to try IUI this month. The doc will be out of the office for about ten days so I may have to do a few days of bc to hold off af until he gets back.
Can anyone share their experience with IUI? Cost? Does it have a much higher rate of success than ti? DH sperm count is great but morphology is just ok. Is it as painful as an HSG?
Any info appreciated thanks ladies!

I have a uterus didelphys and my fallopian tubes are sticking straight up in the air like antennae. I had a few IUIs with my own GYN, and it cost me $220 including a semen wash. It was only painful when he released the sperm, he said it was because they were bouncing off the walls of my fallopian tubes. it was minimally painful and not nearly as painful as my HSG. my dr said that is has a higher rate than TI but its a small percentage. my husband has large numbers of healthy happy sperm, but my fallopian tubes and ovaries do not live near each other, so the egg just floats around in outter space, rather than being send down the shoot like its supposed to.

Wow, I have never heard of this!!!! So, if the egg does get fertilized, where would it implant if it can't go up to get to the tubes???

 

[LolaM]

So another this morning...on the bright side I can stop taking the endometrin for a few weeks. It made me a crazy person haha. I think DH and I are going to try IUI this month. The doc will be out of the office for about ten days so I may have to do a few days of bc to hold off af until he gets back.
Can anyone share their experience with IUI? Cost? Does it have a much higher rate of success than ti? DH sperm count is great but morphology is just ok. Is it as painful as an HSG?
Any info appreciated thanks ladies!

I have a uterus didelphys and my fallopian tubes are sticking straight up in the air like antennae. I had a few IUIs with my own GYN, and it cost me $220 including a semen wash. It was only painful when he released the sperm, he said it was because they were bouncing off the walls of my fallopian tubes. it was minimally painful and not nearly as painful as my HSG. my dr said that is has a higher rate than TI but its a small percentage. my husband has large numbers of healthy happy sperm, but my fallopian tubes and ovaries do not live near each other, so the egg just floats around in outter space, rather than being send down the shoot like its supposed to.

Wow, I have never heard of this!!!! So, if the egg does get fertilized, where would it implant if it can't go up to get to the tubes???

yeah its a mess but the RE didn't tell me to "go way, just go away" lol it wouldn't get fertilized because all the are in the fallopian tubes and I suppose if it did, it would just die because it didn't implant. im probably going to have a laparoscopy and hopefully they can figure out why my tubes are standing straight up, fix it and I can then get preg naturally before im 900 years old!

 

[Lucyinsky]

So another this morning...on the bright side I can stop taking the endometrin for a few weeks. It made me a crazy person haha. I think DH and I are going to try IUI this month. The doc will be out of the office for about ten days so I may have to do a few days of bc to hold off af until he gets back.
Can anyone share their experience with IUI? Cost? Does it have a much higher rate of success than ti? DH sperm count is great but morphology is just ok. Is it as painful as an HSG?
Any info appreciated thanks ladies!

I have a uterus didelphys and my fallopian tubes are sticking straight up in the air like antennae. I had a few IUIs with my own GYN, and it cost me $220 including a semen wash. It was only painful when he released the sperm, he said it was because they were bouncing off the walls of my fallopian tubes. it was minimally painful and not nearly as painful as my HSG. my dr said that is has a higher rate than TI but its a small percentage. my husband has large numbers of healthy happy sperm, but my fallopian tubes and ovaries do not live near each other, so the egg just floats around in outter space, rather than being send down the shoot like its supposed to.

Thank you for the info! My RE ended up calling and told me there isn't much of a difference in my case between TI and IUI. He will give Femara a couple more months and then we will have to talk about IVF. Things should definitely not be this hard! I'm sorry about your tubes...I wonder what could have caused this? Maybe scar tissue? You were planning to start the IVF process as well right? Does this effect it?

 

[Lucyinsky]

So another this morning...on the bright side I can stop taking the endometrin for a few weeks. It made me a crazy person haha. I think DH and I are going to try IUI this month. The doc will be out of the office for about ten days so I may have to do a few days of bc to hold off af until he gets back.
Can anyone share their experience with IUI? Cost? Does it have a much higher rate of success than ti? DH sperm count is great but morphology is just ok. Is it as painful as an HSG?
Any info appreciated thanks ladies!

Lucy - I haven't done an IUI but just wanted to share that my DH had very low 3% strict morphology and we still got a BFP...There was a study done showing that males who ate walnuts had improved morphology. I had DH eat them a month or two before we got our BFP....so perhaps there is something to that.

Hmm... I will have to have him try that. We do a mostly paleo diet so we already eat a good amount of nuts and seeds, but I will have him up the walnut intake Did you just do femara and TI?

 

[Grateful365]

So another this morning...on the bright side I can stop taking the endometrin for a few weeks. It made me a crazy person haha. I think DH and I are going to try IUI this month. The doc will be out of the office for about ten days so I may have to do a few days of bc to hold off af until he gets back.
Can anyone share their experience with IUI? Cost? Does it have a much higher rate of success than ti? DH sperm count is great but morphology is just ok. Is it as painful as an HSG?
Any info appreciated thanks ladies!

Lucy - I haven't done an IUI but just wanted to share that my DH had very low 3% strict morphology and we still got a BFP...There was a study done showing that males who ate walnuts had improved morphology. I had DH eat them a month or two before we got our BFP....so perhaps there is something to that.

Hmm... I will have to have him try that. We do a mostly paleo diet so we already eat a good amount of nuts and seeds, but I will have him up the walnut intake Did you just do femara and TI?

Yes we TTC 4 years, but finally got our BFP with walnuts, Femara, and TI. I had also had a HSG test 2 months prior. I think the whole combination just did the trick.

 

[Lucyinsky]

That's awesome Grateful! LoL i just sent a text to my DH telling him to eat more walnuts...he laughed and said "now what"???

 

[Grateful365]

LOL Lucy!! I brought home a huge bag of walnuts and told DH to "Take them to work and eat them all day"....LOL The things we do in the name of TTC.... but hey, whatever works, works!

Here is that study FYI https://www.diseaseproof.com/archives/healthy-food-walnuts-may-promote-male-fertility.html

 

[LolaM]

Thank you for the info! My RE ended up calling and told me there isn't much of a difference in my case between TI and IUI. He will give Femara a couple more months and then we will have to talk about IVF. Things should definitely not be this hard! I'm sorry about your tubes...I wonder what could have caused this? Maybe scar tissue? You were planning to start the IVF process as well right? Does this effect it?

They don't know why, that is what the laparoscopy will tell them. What kind of scar tissue and from WHAT? Ive never had a surgery and ive never been pregnant before, even with over a year of treatments. I spent a year on femara. I think its interesting that both sides are stand straight up and am curious to find out if they can put them in the correct place. I am looking into IVF, not sure with all my issues that IVF is possible at this point. if the tubes cant be put back, IVF is the only option since a and b don't meet to make c.

 

[Grateful365]

Lola are you scheduled for that test yet? Sorry I can't remember how to spell it.
I am also very interested in hearing what they say about your tubes. I know this has been a long road for you... I can't wait to see and celebrate your BFP it's coming!

 

[Lucyinsky]

Lola- I wonder why they didn't see this issue in the HSG? I was told that because of my bicornuate uterus IVF is a better option because he can place it on the "bigger side" in hopes of carrying to term. I really hope it all works out for you!

 

[LolaM]

Lola- I wonder why they didn't see this issue in the HSG? I was told that because of my bicornuate uterus IVF is a better option because he can place it on the "bigger side" in hopes of carrying to term. I really hope it all works out for you!

they did see it in the HSG, that is how they know they are BOTH standing up straight, I had an HSG in 2011 and the guy that did it, didn't know what he was doing, and only found the left uterus, and it was very painful. my GYN ignored the fact that the tube was standing straight up, I think he was only concerned with the fact htat my uterus is in 2 pieces. When I went to the RE he wanted to get a look for himself. He could find both uteri and did the right side HSG right away and knew that was the problem but he also wants to get an ovarian reserve test to eliminate an other possibilities. I will be doing to ovarian reserve blood test in about 5 days.

RE wants to check OR before scheduling a laparoscopy but im pretty sure he's going to want to do it because he is going to need to see why my tubes are standing up. I was initially concerned with the costs but after the struggles we have been having with our foster baby, I am looking forward to having a child of my own, that they CANT take away at a moments notice.

 

[Nightnurse]

Just wanted to update AF came and gone and now onto my 3rd round of Femara and waiting to O

 

[Lucyinsky]

Lola- I hope everything works out and you get some answers!

How is everyone doing?

 

[LolaM]

I have cramps and I just want to shut my head in a door!