IUI Jan/Feb/March/Apr/May 2012 - Status updates on page one 12 bfp

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AF came today. I think I'll be sitting out a couple of months. Good luck to all of you.
 
Nicker said:
froliky2011 said:
I think it depends on your body. Do you typically o early, average or late? That is what I would go by. I o before 24 hours after LH surge, so for me I wanted an IUI 12 hours post LH surge at least. I don't know much about Chron's disease. One of my gf read a book about some guy who had it and changed his diet dramatically and cured himself? I hope you are OK and that it does not stop you from living life to the fullest. :hugs:
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I have no idea when or if I even O. I am just trusting the hcg does its job.

I have great drugs for the Crohn's. Unlike fertility, they are covered by my emplyee benefits. Good thing! A single dose every 8 weeks is $6100. I have been in remission for 7 years now because of it. I did have to get off one of the drugs before ttc because it strips the body of follic acid. According to my fertility dude that drug may have diminished my ovarian response. My GI disagrees. :shrug:
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I'm glad to hear you have been in remission. If your ovarian reserve were diminished did he suspect you were just creating follicles with no eggs in them? As for the ovulation, keep track of your symptoms (cm, high sex drive, temp...although it does rise a day or two after o).
 
froliky2011 said:
I'm glad to hear you have been in remission. If your ovarian reserve were diminished did he suspect you were just creating follicles with no eggs in them? As for the ovulation, keep track of your symptoms (cm, high sex drive, temp...although it does rise a day or two after o).
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I believe that my ovarian reserve is normal for someone my age. I had the antral follicle count before he determined whether or not I could conceive. My follies were slow to grow with serophene alone and he thought perhaps medication history contributed. If he believed there were no eggs in them he wouldn't have done the IUI. I have since read that larger women (that's me) may not respond as well to serophene alone.

I haven't noticed much cm since I started the medicated cycle. The last time I know I had increased cm and was pretty sure I ovulated the increased cm was cd10 and 11.

Sex drive - I haven't had sex in almost 10 years :cry: Then I used birth control and know I was fertile. I had 28 day cycles like clockwork and I had O pain and all... :dohh: I actually suspect I had a miscarriage 10 years ago. I just felt that something was different and I was 2 weeks late and I was never late. That was when I was first getting sick with the Crohn's and I think I was malabsorbing the pill. I guess that was for the best considering bf and I broke up a few weeks later (he never knew my suspicions until a year later) and I spent the next year of my life being very ill. If I was pregnant I never could have carried to term.

Temping - I am up all the time throughout the night. Also, progesterone suppositories would also cause a temp rise not?
 
Nicker said:
froliky2011 said:
I'm glad to hear you have been in remission. If your ovarian reserve were diminished did he suspect you were just creating follicles with no eggs in them? As for the ovulation, keep track of your symptoms (cm, high sex drive, temp...although it does rise a day or two after o).
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I believe that my ovarian reserve is normal for someone my age. I had the antral follicle count before he determined whether or not I could conceive. My follies were slow to grow with serophene alone and he thought perhaps medication history contributed. If he believed there were no eggs in them he wouldn't have done the IUI. I have since read that larger women (that's me) may not respond as well to serophene alone.

I haven't noticed much cm since I started the medicated cycle. The last time I know I had increased cm and was pretty sure I ovulated the increased cm was cd10 and 11.

Sex drive - I haven't had sex in almost 10 years :cry: Then I used birth control and know I was fertile. I had 28 day cycles like clockwork and I had O pain and all... :dohh: I actually suspect I had a miscarriage 10 years ago. I just felt that something was different and I was 2 weeks late and I was never late. That was when I was first getting sick with the Crohn's and I think I was malabsorbing the pill. I guess that was for the best considering bf and I broke up a few weeks later (he never knew my suspicions until a year later) and I spent the next year of my life being very ill. If I was pregnant I never could have carried to term.

Temping - I am up all the time throughout the night. Also, progesterone suppositories would also cause a temp rise not?
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Ovarian Reserve - Sounds good. Are they trying something different from the serophene? It seems like you have good sizes on CD10 so that's good news.

CM - Sounds good. I am guessing you ovulate late CD11 or early CD12. I could be wrong though.

Temping - Yeah, I know, I am on progesterone too. However, when I wasn't I loved it because right before AF my temp would drop, so I knew I was not pregnant and did not have to wait any more. With the suppositories, we are stuck waiting.

Sex Drive - Really? I never had much of a sex drive and then Wham! My later 30s and boy oh, boy it went through the roof! They say a woman's sex drive increases in her late 30s because the body knows the chances to procreate and coming to a close in a few years or something like that. The last few years it's been crazy. Your medication for Chron's disease might inhibit it? Medications can cause that.

Sorry about the illness and the mc. Wow! That was a lot to go through in a short period of time. I hope you had a good support system through it. :hugs: At least you know you can get pregnant. That is difficult for many women.
 
Well as far as the sex drive goes I am pretty sure it is still there but because I have been alone so long no one there to turn me on LOL.

That was only the beginning. I lost 50 pounds in the next 9 months or so and I ended up in a wrongful dismissal suit. I won but it took a year that cost me a lot of wages. I was diagnosed a year later
 
Nicker said:
adroplet said:
13 dpo today - no 2nd line on my IC and no AF.
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Fx for you.
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Thanks! I am just so worried because at 10 dpo I had my regular endometriosis pains before AF. They are SUPER painful and i just feel that if embryo had implanted, it could not have possibly stuck in place. Scar tissue has attached my uterus to my colon so a hard BM will cause me endo pain. I am still getting cramps.
I just read up on some other forums and I have relaxed a little. Apparently if i do get prego, my endo pain will continue and I will have stronger cramps because the scar tissue will be stretching as the uterus grows. great:nope:.
Well, I keep getting the feeling down there that AF has come but nothing so far.
I will test again tomorrow morning.
 
adroplet said:
Thanks! I am just so worried because at 10 dpo I had my regular endometriosis pains before AF. They are SUPER painful and i just feel that if embryo had implanted, it could not have possibly stuck in place. Scar tissue has attached my uterus to my colon so a hard BM will cause me endo pain. I am still getting cramps.
I just read up on some other forums and I have relaxed a little. Apparently if i do get prego, my endo pain will continue and I will have stronger cramps because the scar tissue will be stretching as the uterus grows. great:nope:.
Well, I keep getting the feeling down there that AF has come but nothing so far.
I will test again tomorrow morning.
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Can they do anything about the adhesions? Like surgically repair them? I don't have endo, but I am concerned about adhesions as well due to my surgical history. The first year after my Crohn's dx I was dependent on prednisone to keep the inflammation under control. Since prednisone is nasty nasty stuff it was decided that I needed different medication (my current med) but since it was so expensive I had to wait for special authorization from my insurance company. While I was waiting, I ended up with a perforated colon from the prednisone so I ended up in emergency on my birthday (2 weeks before starting a new job at a new school). I had emergency surgery to remove 40" of my colon and woke up with a colostomy bag. FUN! 3 months later I had the ostomy reversal surgery. The next year is when I discovered the incisional hernia which had to be repaired. When the surgeon did the hernia repair he said that I also had a lot of adhesions he removed while he was in there. The hernia repair was my fourth surgery by the same surgeon on the exact same incision line from sternum to belly button. That strip of my belly is numb. I wonder how that will feel when my belly is trying to stretch if I do get pregnant.
 
Well my u/s and bloodwork is this morning and I'm freaking out that I'm going to have a cyst because I didn't O last cycle. I couldn't sleep at all last night. Probably got a couple hours between crying. I wish that I could stop worrying but what I've read just doesn't sound good. I need a miracle.
 
OMG! I really can't believe it but there were no cysts and I'm all cleared to start gonal f tonight. :shock: I prayed before going into my appt to let His will be done and that I have faith that it will happen for us at His time and not mine. I was at peace with this when I went in. My FS could tell that I was emotional and asked if I was okay and of course I started tearing up when he said everything looked good. I was embarrassed and apologized. Between lack of sleep, getting myself worked up for nothing and finding out that my friend who is doing surrogacy for her cousin that can't have children is losing the baby. Holy cow...what a morning.
 
That's wonderful Basetgrrl! It's tough to see others go through such heart break and such an eye opener to the fragility of pregnancy and the miracle of reproduction. Glad you had good news. :) :happydance:
 
Thanks! I'm so thrilled and looking forward to my acupuncture appt tomorrow.

Yes, it's difficult to see someone else go through this knowing how hard it is but especially since she was doing this for her cousin. I can't even imagine.
 
Nicker - I had a lap done in 2010 and dr said he removed 85% of it. the rest he couldn't get to because he would risk rupturing my colon or my uterus. He left that alone since he knew i wanted to TTC. The pains are back but not as frequent as before or as strong, since I started acupuncture. So I will have to live with the pain (since i take NO pain meds for this).

14 dpo - no second line on IC but no AF either.
 
Hi girls, a few more hours :happydance: to go till my bfp :winkwink:

Nicker > Wow, you are one strong woman and derserve this so much! Hope you get better support around O day. Just one thing, LH is always present in ur body so you will most likely have a second line all the time, but when it goes darker than what they are in the beginning of ur cycle then its possible that ur surge is beginning.

Froliky > fx'd for you!!!

Bastetgrrl > I hate to say so, but it told you sooo :winkwink: I'm so happy you can start tonight and ur iui and bfp will follow shortly!

Adrolet > sorry :hugs:

Sully > sorry :hugs: hope the relaxed approach brings a bfp!

Sorry if I miss someone!

AFM > Beta is tomorrow, I'm very positive and I'm gonna do a hpt when I wake up, so fx'd for even a faint line!
 
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