TryingInCO
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Hello everyone!
It's finally my turn to announce my BFP! I've been waiting a year for this moment and had just started the fertility treatment process when a miracle happened!
My hubby and I had been trying since last Oct (2013) and though we missed probably 4 cycles of that due to a family tragedy and hubby being out of town, I feel like the other cycles we gave it our best.
Surrounded by friends who suffered from fertility issues and were younger than me (I'm 29 and hubby is 28), I decided/kind of threatened that if we didn't have a BFP by Oct, I would seek help from a fertility specialist. I was so frustrated not getting a BFP cycle after cycle and wanted to reiterate the seriousness of this to my laid back but awesome hubby. Always assuming there was something wrong with me, in Sept 2014 I decided to schedule an appt with my OBGYN to discuss my awful menstrual cramps during my period as I was told by friends that their cramps were not near as painful as mine. I was starting to think maybe I had endometriosis and wanted to hopefully exclude that from the 'why aren't we preggo list'. I received an ultrasound with shocking results. My OBGYN called me back to tell me that I had like 40+ follicles on one ovary and 20+ follicles on the other. She started peppering me with questions hoping to rule out PCOS. Well, nothing to the naked eye seemed to indicate I had PCOS, but she did say it appears I have Polycystic Ovaries, just not the syndrome part. I immediately went numb when she was telling me all of this because I was honestly not expecting anything to be wrong with my ovaries, just maybe some tissue that needed to be removed. She then had me come back in and do some labs and also ordered my hubby a semen analysis (SA) from CCRM (Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine). In the meantime, I scheduled a consult with CCRM for the beginning of Oct as they are the top fertility clinic in the world and happen to be in our backyard and also started doing acupuncture (yeah, I don't mess around with this fertility stuff). My acupuncturist looked at my ultrasound results and immediately put me on Fish Oil with Vitamin D, Inositol powder (2 scoops a day), and Ubiquinol to take 2x a day. A couple of days later, I get a voicemail from my OBGYN saying my bloodwork came back fine, but that my husband should see a urologist because his stuff wasn't looking so great. He had 0% morphology, low volume, but everything else like sperm counts and motility seemed okay or above average. We got this result a few days before our CCRM appt. I then send him in for Acupuncture and the acupuncturist puts him on Fertile Aid, some herbal meds and then a few other vitamins in addition to his multi-vitamin (he was choking down like 12 pills twice a day). Fast forward to our CCRM appt, our doc says everything appears to be fine with me and that the number of follicles I have is not alarming and is expected for a fertile woman of my age and then her focus shifted to my husband. I asked her matter-of-fact questions and basically I left thinking that unless we could miraculously get my hubby's morphology levels up (which the doc admitted she rarely seems them go up more than a % or 2), we would not have a chance at all having a baby naturally or even via IUI...IVF w/ICSI seemed like the most promising treatment. She suggests we go see a urologist for my hubby. In the meantime, my next cycle they would monitor my hormones for CD3 and then perform an HSG on me mid-cycle.
We get into the urologist the next week and he does another SA and does an add on to test for DNA fragmentation. We are told the results for the DNA piece won't be back for like a month, however we got them back like 4 days later and found out there's only 1% DNA fragmentation and normal is anything below 16% so that was great news. Well, fast forward a few days when I'm 9dpo, I took a preggo test late at night and saw a very very very very faint line and so did hubby (he never sees the second line I convince myself in my head) but assumed it was evap...though I did let a small part of me believe it could really be and thanked God with tears in my eyes. The next morning I take another test, now there's a very very faint line that my hubby def can see. I should add, I'm using those cheap wondfos at this point. So the next morning before my acupuncture appointment, I go get an FRER and CB digital. The FRER shows a very faint line within 2 min and CB digital says not preggo. I didn't let the CB digital rain on my parade because in all these months I NEVER saw a second line on an FRER, not even a hint of one. The next day at 11dpo, I go into CCRM for a blood test, get a call later that evening saying HCG is only 19 and that's a tad low, that they like to see at least 50 so she said have labs drawn on 13dpo and said as long as they're 66% more than my 19, I'm progressing as expected. I prayed a lot asking God for it to be at least 30. In the meantime, I am taking tests each day and watching them get darker and darker which eased my mind a little. Then today I got the call that my HCG levels at 13dpo were 103!!! My due date is 7/01/15!! I will go in for my first US at 7 weeks so hoping I will hear the heart beat.
I hope my story encourages someone else who may be facing fertility issues. Everything I read and the impression I got from the medical community regarding my hubby's 0% morphology was that we had like less than a 2% chance of conceiving naturally and if we did, it would take many many years and be a total miracle. My husband and I decided that in May we would try IVF w/ICSI and now assuming all goes well, we will not be out $30k and will have the most perfect baby for us in 8 short months! A miracle indeed!!
It's finally my turn to announce my BFP! I've been waiting a year for this moment and had just started the fertility treatment process when a miracle happened!
My hubby and I had been trying since last Oct (2013) and though we missed probably 4 cycles of that due to a family tragedy and hubby being out of town, I feel like the other cycles we gave it our best.
Surrounded by friends who suffered from fertility issues and were younger than me (I'm 29 and hubby is 28), I decided/kind of threatened that if we didn't have a BFP by Oct, I would seek help from a fertility specialist. I was so frustrated not getting a BFP cycle after cycle and wanted to reiterate the seriousness of this to my laid back but awesome hubby. Always assuming there was something wrong with me, in Sept 2014 I decided to schedule an appt with my OBGYN to discuss my awful menstrual cramps during my period as I was told by friends that their cramps were not near as painful as mine. I was starting to think maybe I had endometriosis and wanted to hopefully exclude that from the 'why aren't we preggo list'. I received an ultrasound with shocking results. My OBGYN called me back to tell me that I had like 40+ follicles on one ovary and 20+ follicles on the other. She started peppering me with questions hoping to rule out PCOS. Well, nothing to the naked eye seemed to indicate I had PCOS, but she did say it appears I have Polycystic Ovaries, just not the syndrome part. I immediately went numb when she was telling me all of this because I was honestly not expecting anything to be wrong with my ovaries, just maybe some tissue that needed to be removed. She then had me come back in and do some labs and also ordered my hubby a semen analysis (SA) from CCRM (Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine). In the meantime, I scheduled a consult with CCRM for the beginning of Oct as they are the top fertility clinic in the world and happen to be in our backyard and also started doing acupuncture (yeah, I don't mess around with this fertility stuff). My acupuncturist looked at my ultrasound results and immediately put me on Fish Oil with Vitamin D, Inositol powder (2 scoops a day), and Ubiquinol to take 2x a day. A couple of days later, I get a voicemail from my OBGYN saying my bloodwork came back fine, but that my husband should see a urologist because his stuff wasn't looking so great. He had 0% morphology, low volume, but everything else like sperm counts and motility seemed okay or above average. We got this result a few days before our CCRM appt. I then send him in for Acupuncture and the acupuncturist puts him on Fertile Aid, some herbal meds and then a few other vitamins in addition to his multi-vitamin (he was choking down like 12 pills twice a day). Fast forward to our CCRM appt, our doc says everything appears to be fine with me and that the number of follicles I have is not alarming and is expected for a fertile woman of my age and then her focus shifted to my husband. I asked her matter-of-fact questions and basically I left thinking that unless we could miraculously get my hubby's morphology levels up (which the doc admitted she rarely seems them go up more than a % or 2), we would not have a chance at all having a baby naturally or even via IUI...IVF w/ICSI seemed like the most promising treatment. She suggests we go see a urologist for my hubby. In the meantime, my next cycle they would monitor my hormones for CD3 and then perform an HSG on me mid-cycle.
We get into the urologist the next week and he does another SA and does an add on to test for DNA fragmentation. We are told the results for the DNA piece won't be back for like a month, however we got them back like 4 days later and found out there's only 1% DNA fragmentation and normal is anything below 16% so that was great news. Well, fast forward a few days when I'm 9dpo, I took a preggo test late at night and saw a very very very very faint line and so did hubby (he never sees the second line I convince myself in my head) but assumed it was evap...though I did let a small part of me believe it could really be and thanked God with tears in my eyes. The next morning I take another test, now there's a very very faint line that my hubby def can see. I should add, I'm using those cheap wondfos at this point. So the next morning before my acupuncture appointment, I go get an FRER and CB digital. The FRER shows a very faint line within 2 min and CB digital says not preggo. I didn't let the CB digital rain on my parade because in all these months I NEVER saw a second line on an FRER, not even a hint of one. The next day at 11dpo, I go into CCRM for a blood test, get a call later that evening saying HCG is only 19 and that's a tad low, that they like to see at least 50 so she said have labs drawn on 13dpo and said as long as they're 66% more than my 19, I'm progressing as expected. I prayed a lot asking God for it to be at least 30. In the meantime, I am taking tests each day and watching them get darker and darker which eased my mind a little. Then today I got the call that my HCG levels at 13dpo were 103!!! My due date is 7/01/15!! I will go in for my first US at 7 weeks so hoping I will hear the heart beat.
I hope my story encourages someone else who may be facing fertility issues. Everything I read and the impression I got from the medical community regarding my hubby's 0% morphology was that we had like less than a 2% chance of conceiving naturally and if we did, it would take many many years and be a total miracle. My husband and I decided that in May we would try IVF w/ICSI and now assuming all goes well, we will not be out $30k and will have the most perfect baby for us in 8 short months! A miracle indeed!!
