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

[L4hope]

AMP, hopefully you'll get your bfp and won't have to worry about injectables!

Kismat, good luck with round two!

Stepmummy glad to see you are feeling better and all set for round five. Good luck!

Drsquid, oh my gosh I think I would go crazy if I could get us at work! I'd want to have one all rhe time to check follie size and when I o'd! Im with Tella, I think it's best to wait for your appointment.

Tella, yay for O'ing!! We'll be hearing about your bfp in no time!!!

 

[BabyOnMyOwn]

Just trying to get through the tww! 6 more days till beta. I feel like I can't think much of symptoms since I'm on progesterone, so trying really hard not to think about anything. Just hoping it all worked!
How are you? I can't remember if you're on a break or what tour plan is?

I am also in the TWW, I think we had our iui's on the same day. I am trying not to worry, and up until the past couple of days I was doing a good job. I know the progesterone can effect what is going on, but I have now completely convinced myself it didn't work. I know it is only 9 days piui, but I have been feeling crampy and moody like AF is coming on. My back has broken out which is unusual, but I can attribute that to AF coming as well. UGH!! I know it is too early to know anything but I have now started thinking about IVF for next time.

 

[L4hope]

Just trying to get through the tww! 6 more days till beta. I feel like I can't think much of symptoms since I'm on progesterone, so trying really hard not to think about anything. Just hoping it all worked!
How are you? I can't remember if you're on a break or what tour plan is?

I am also in the TWW, I think we had our iui's on the same day. I am trying not to worry, and up until the past couple of days I was doing a good job. I know the progesterone can effect what is going on, but I have now completely convinced myself it didn't work. I know it is only 9 days piui, but I have been feeling crampy and moody like AF is coming on. My back has broken out which is unusual, but I can attribute that to AF coming as well. UGH!! I kn
ow it is too early to know anything but I have now started thinking about IVF
for next time.

It's so hard not to worry at this point. For me anyways, at the beginning of the tww I'm so full of hope and thinking about if it works when my due date will be, how long to get through the first trimester, etc. Then once you get to
a few days before knowing i start to think about what if it doesn't work. What's my next plan, how much more waiting, money etc. I completely understand how you feel. But, you have to remind yourself that everything you are feeling could also be contributed to a bfp! That's what's so frustrating it could so easily go either way!! Ahhh!!! Here's hoping we get good news next week!

 

[ashknowsbest]

I just got back from my IUI and OH's sperm count post wash was 88.5 million 70% motility so everything is looking great there. I had two follicles one on each side and they were 21mm each so I have my FX'd!

I feel relieved to be in my TWW because I won't have to go to RMA every other day!

 

[drsquid]

ash- yay tww. fingers crossed for you

i was just teasing about sending it to him. it makes him crazy that i do us at work. he is always like... step away from the probe. and asks me why i bother coming to him (i told him it is cause he told me to, and they need the money). ill likely scan again today

 

[diliapickle]

Ash - Yay! Hope the TWW goes quickly and you see that BFP soon!

 

[daydream]

GL to you Stepmommy

 

[daydream]

Ash - sounds like everything was perfect this time! FX!

 

[BabyOnMyOwn]

Drsquid- yay for lots of good follies! I don’t know how you stay sane being able to do ultrasounds at work. I think I would drive myself batty!

Tella- I can’t wait to hear about your BFP!!

Kismat- Good Luck with this cycle. Hopefully it will be the one!

Stepmummy- I completely understand needing some time to come to grips with things. I have done the same thing in the past between cycles.

AMP- I was scared of the injectables too but they were much easier than I expected. I just thought about getting the outcome I wanted and did them. )

L4Hope- Yes, the first week of the TWW it seems to be much easier to stay positive. I am trying to be cautiously optimistic at this point. I want to know I have other options if it doesn’t work, but I am hoping it does. Plus, I think if I convince myself it didn’t work I am better off emotionally if it doesn’t than I am if I convince myself it did.


Does anyone know what taking progesterone does to your Basal Body Temp? I have been temping like always but I don't know if I should be seeing any difference.

 

[diliapickle]

I found that it didn't affect my BBT too much. Maybe slightly higher than before but nothing too noticeable.

 

[ashknowsbest]

daydream - yes everything does seem perfect this time but it seemed perfect last time too! So, I'm trying not to get too excited, I don't want to get my hopes up and then get crushed so I'm trying to stay neutral until testing day!

 

[AMP26]

Negative Beta I have a meeting with the FS for Monday night to discuss the protocol for my first Gonal-F cycle.

If we're being honest here I am so sick of all this but also too afraid to stop trying. My DH wants me to take a break, but I think I'm going to push through one more. This will be our 3rd medicated IUI but our 43rd overall. When do you just give up?

 

[BabyOnMyOwn]

I'm so sorry AMP! I recently took a couple months off and found it was kind of nice to not be thinking about everything. I didn't think I was going to be glad I did it, but I was.

GL with whatever you decide!

 

[drsquid]

amp- i gave up and switched to ivf. if this cycle fails im not sure what i will do next.

 

[BabyOnMyOwn]

amp- i gave up and switched to ivf. if this cycle fails im not sure what i will do next.

That is my plan if this cycle doesn't work as well. I will try one IVF with my eggs then I think I will try 1 with donor eggs. I wouldn't even think about that except after being diagnosed with Diminished Ovarian Reserve, I know my egg quality and quantity isn't very good.

 

[drsquid]

i have good reserve as far as i know. im hoping to throw in my doc's face how good my eggs are (but im not counting them til they are in the basket so to speak) im hopeful for frosties for a fet cycle if needed

 

[diliapickle]

AMP - I am so sorry you got a BFN! I finally decided to take a break (well have to so we can save for IVF) after 4th failed IUI and it has been nice to not worry all the time. Good luck with whatever you decide though!!!

 

[AMP26]

Thank you everyone! I was feeling a bit sorry for myself when I wrote that last post. I'm a bit better now. We're going to do the Gonal-f next cycle and if that doesn't work, we're going to take a break for the rest of summer. Plus, after this round of meds, our financial reserve will be just about dried up! So we would be forced into a break either way. We are lucky that our insurance covers most of the procedures, but the medicine is what's killing us! If this doesn't work, I think I'll look to IVF next. I have some moral/spiritual reservations about it, but I like the odds a lot better. I'm going to do some more research on it and see if I can get DH to come around to the idea... Or maybe this cycle will work...

Sorry for the long post! It's been that kind of day!

 

[Chiles]

I say try again AMP!!!!! I was in a similar perdicament where we was going to take sometime off and do IVF and I got my Just when I was about to give up.

 

[MommyMel]

amp- i gave up and switched to ivf. if this cycle fails im not sure what i will do next.

That is my plan if this cycle doesn't work as well. I will try one IVF with my eggs then I think I will try 1 with donor eggs. I wouldn't even think about that except after being diagnosed with Diminished Ovarian Reserve, I know my egg quality and quantity isn't very good.

Hi Ladies,

Sorry for all the BFN.... i am also waiting very impatiently for my BFP to show up.....
Have you perhaps researched DHEA, from what i read thus far it helps greatly with egg quality. I have ordered some from my Pharmacy..... i guess it cant hurt to try.....

I wish everyone lots of baby dust ......