July/August IUIs

[Mikihob]

raelynn that is great! I am sorry DH hurt his back but glad he might be able to be with you. Hope he recovers soon.

 

[JCM]

Awesome that he can go with you!
Miki, I def felt o pains yesterday right before I left for my appt all the way til I got there. Some light cramping later in the afternoon and today I feel great. Not even bloated so I'm most likely done ovulating.
I'm cracking up over here, hubby and I are both googling on our iPads obsessing and all of a sudden he yells "oh this girl got a Big F***ing Pregnancy on her first iui!!!" I'm like that's not what bfp means. I'm seriously amused by him reading these forums out loud. I just tried to ask him a serious question and he said "well littlebeans44 didn't test out her trigger and she had a false positive." His face was dead serious and he continues to dialogue old forum posts from his google search. If he can just keep this up for 2 weeks I'll be distracted. I wish I was at least into the implantation times...

 

[Mikihob]

Awesome that he can go with you!
Miki, I def felt o pains yesterday right before I left for my appt all the way til I got there. Some light cramping later in the afternoon and today I feel great. Not even bloated so I'm most likely done ovulating.
I'm cracking up over here, hubby and I are both googling on our iPads obsessing and all of a sudden he yells "oh this girl got a Big F***ing Pregnancy on her first iui!!!" I'm like that's not what bfp means. I'm seriously amused by him reading these forums out loud. I just tried to ask him a serious question and he said "well littlebeans44 didn't test out her trigger and she had a false positive." His face was dead serious and he continues to dialogue old forum posts from his google search. If he can just keep this up for 2 weeks I'll be distracted. I wish I was at least into the implantation times...

Hahahaha!! That is awesome that DH is reading those with you. I like his version of BFP better. Lol. I will say something about a BFP and DH is like, "What?" I explain and he's like, ok.

It is definitely a good distraction. I am coming to your house, it will keep me distracted too.

 

[Ltruns33]

We did o BD before IUI my previosly cycle...the trigger did a real umber on me...thought I was going to thow up. So he had quite a build up IUI day...but his retrieval was awesome...9 million out of 11 million. But this time we did same night as trigger & ended up with horrible count. So now not sure what to do if there is a next time.

So I am totally googling days past IUI for poitive hpt...I am losing it!

Me too beagle, me too!

 

[Ltruns33]

Awesome that he can go with you!
Miki, I def felt o pains yesterday right before I left for my appt all the way til I got there. Some light cramping later in the afternoon and today I feel great. Not even bloated so I'm most likely done ovulating.
I'm cracking up over here, hubby and I are both googling on our iPads obsessing and all of a sudden he yells "oh this girl got a Big F***ing Pregnancy on her first iui!!!" I'm like that's not what bfp means. I'm seriously amused by him reading these forums out loud. I just tried to ask him a serious question and he said "well littlebeans44 didn't test out her trigger and she had a false positive." His face was dead serious and he continues to dialogue old forum posts from his google search. If he can just keep this up for 2 weeks I'll be distracted. I wish I was at least into the implantation times...

haha how funny! That's so great that he's so involved! Hubby's are funny when they try to figure this whole ttc stuff out with us.

Raelynn- good luck with your appointments! I hope to be hearing about your iui soon!

Has anyone had fatigue on progesterone? I took a 3 hour nap today! WHAT! PS I am a teacher so that's how it was possible, it's summertime for me. ANyone else had any side effects on progesterone?

I am at 11dpiui almost to 12. We have a wedding that hubby is in so friday-Saturday I should be pretty occupied. I am just praying so hard that AF doesn't show for 9 months! lol. I'm not testing, just going in for blood monday!

 

[beaglemom]

Last time I was on P, I was SO TIRED...went to bed early or took a nap after work. I have not felt that this time...not yet.

 

[Mikihob]

I caved and POAS. 9dpo= BFN. I thought perhaps I could get a early positive. Sigh. Not this time. I am still holding out hope that I am pregnant. It's still early.

Ltruns great job waiting until your blood draw. I can sometimes hold out for it, but decided (since I have so many cheapies) that I would usually. I usually don't have any cheapies and hold out those FRER until the last minute, but gave it a shot. Come on Wednesday!

How are you ladies doing today?

 

[beaglemom]

I caved and POAS. 9dpo= BFN. I thought perhaps I could get a early positive. Sigh. Not this time. I am still holding out hope that I am pregnant. It's still early.

Ltruns great job waiting until your blood draw. I can sometimes hold out for it, but decided (since I have so many cheapies) that I would usually. I usually don't have any cheapies and hold out those FRER until the last minute, but gave it a shot. Come on Wednesday!

How are you ladies doing today?

Twins again! I also tested this AM @ 9dpo with a negative. I feel the same as you. At least I scratched the itch!

 

[Buttrflyl553]

Good for you ltruns with waiting! Enjoy the wedding!

Sorry miki and beagle for bfn but you are right there's still hope!

Thanks ladies for the exercise opinions. I spoke with nutritionist last night and was finally diagnosed insulin resistance from glucose test. Sounds like the doc will put me on metformin. Ladies on metformin- any stomach issues when taking?
Glad to have to answer and look at what will make things better. She told me exercise will help too so I am going to continue with exercise just try to walk more and not do anything crazy!

 

[raelynn]

So I was worrying about early ovulation for nothing. Still have a ways to go. I had 2 lead follicles at 10 and 11mm today and several smaller ones. Next appointment is Sunday to check on progress. I'm guessing IUI won't be until sometime in the middle of next week.

Miki and beagle it's still very early. Hopefully you'll see those positives soon!

 

[Ltruns33]

Raelynn, I'm hoping those follies develop into perfect conception ready eggs!

Butterfly, exercise does help me with the wait! Hang in there.

Miki&beagle how fun to be cycle twins. I hope you both get a bfp soon!

 

[babylala]

Glad to see everyone is doing well!

Ltruns - Glad you have a wedding this weekend to keep you distracted! You've done so well not testing (since you wanted to hold off until your beta).

Mikihob and beagle - it's still so early so there's still LOTS of hope!

Raelynn - I'm glad to hear you didn't already ovulate and sounds like those follies are developing nicely.

JCM - Your doctor does sound like a mad scientist and like he's hilarious! I'm not familiar with herapin but I'm a big fan of fish oil pills.

I'm really excited for a weekend so I can be away from the computer (for my job I'm at the computer most of the day) and just get my mind off of things. I'll be seeing my sister this weekend who's expecting and I'm going to try to get her pregnant vibes to rub off on me

 

[beaglemom]

Glad to see everyone is doing well!

Ltruns - Glad you have a wedding this weekend to keep you distracted! You've done so well not testing (since you wanted to hold off until your beta).

Mikihob and beagle - it's still so early so there's still LOTS of hope!

Raelynn - I'm glad to hear you didn't already ovulate and sounds like those follies are developing nicely.

JCM - Your doctor does sound like a mad scientist and like he's hilarious! I'm not familiar with herapin but I'm a big fan of fish oil pills.

I'm really excited for a weekend so I can be away from the computer (for my job I'm at the computer most of the day) and just get my mind off of things. I'll be seeing my sister this weekend who's expecting and I'm going to try to get her pregnant vibes to rub off on me

I am at my computer at work too...& it is slow...so too hard to avoid google & B&B.

 

[Mikihob]

beaglemom we are twins!! We must have a mind-meld going on. When are you testing next? I thought about Monday or Wednesday, but now I am thinking about waiting until Thursday. The last two cycles I take my test and my period starts a few hours later. I may wait and see if it doesn't show on Wednesday.

Buttrfly I have taken metformin a few different times and I get horrible nausea. Last time I was on it, I vomited almost every day. But, I did start at a higher dose. My step-daughter takes it and she started low and worked her way up. She takes it with a semi-large-large meal and doesn't have issues. Her only flare up is when she forgets for a couple days and then remembers, it messes her tummy up bad. I hope that you can do well on it. I have also heard that after a couple of weeks your body gets used to is and the nausea should go away.

raelynn it's good to hear that your ovulation wasn't missed. IUI next week! Yay! Since it's later than expected can DH go for sure?

Hope everyone else is doing well too!

 

[JCM]

Ohhhh those early BFNs!!! Don't let them get you down. Hopefully everyone will keep busy over the weekend and then before you know it, we are into next week! Miki and Beagle, your two weeks is up in just 5 more days! Woohoo!
Have fun at the wedding Ltruns!
Raelynn you will be one week behind me! Glad your follicles are progressing!
My iui twins, hope you're hanging in there!
I will be going to a hotel with DH tomorrow and Sunday for a little pool/spa time. I'm really excited! Our friends are meeting us tomorrow night too. Hopefully my mind will stay busy. I have a waxing appt today and I called my dr just because I was paranoid and she laughed and said you can be waxed and ALWAYS call with those questions even if you think it's silly. I like her. I'm not even on progesterone until Sunday and I'm so super tired. Luckily no more bloating or cramps. But my back on both sides kind of low feels sore. Like someone punched me a couple times on either side! Maybe my dogs and DH abused me in my sleep. Lol! I just need to make it to 7dpo and then I can obsess about implantation right? ; )
I'm doing the Pom juice thing but I couldn't do pineapple core. It makes me gag. I take 3 folic acid, vitamin D, B-12, and fish oil. Plus prenatals. Leslie, my RE loves fish oil pills. I'm not a pill person so I hate swallowing big giant ones. Anything with a weird smell or texture makes me gag and sometime barf. I've been doing better though!

Oh, and I miss wine.
That is all

 

[luvsgreen]

I hope you guys don't mind me jumping in. It is always so nice to see other ladies that can relate to what you are going through. As common as infertility is, I don't know anyone else going through these issues, personally. Here is a little background on my story.
My situation: I have 4 children 18, 17, 15 and 12 and am 38 years old. I will be 39 in Sept. I have been with my current husband for 5 1/2 years and he has no children and would like one of his own. We got pregnant in 2011 and lost the baby at 12 weeks and had to get a D & C. In Nov 2013 we got pregnant again and lost the baby at 8 weeks and had to have another D & C. We were then referred to an RE. I was diagnosed with hypothyroid, polyp and low ovarian reserve. My RE also believes that my eggs are being released too soon before they have matured which is why I have taken clomid and Letrozole. I started thyroid meds and had surgery to remove my polyp. In April we were given the go ahead to start TTC again.
Tomorrow I will go in for follicle tracking and if all goes well will have my first IUI on Monday. This IUI cycle I will be doing 2.5 Letrozole and Ovidrel trigger. I already feel so anxious and exhausted by everything we have gone through. I guess it is just nice to chat with other ladies that understand and that I can vent to. Would love to hear back from everyone and I wish all of you the best on your journey's as well!

 

[beaglemom]

Welcome luvsgreen! Good luck with your cycle.

I think I had the lower back pain after my IUI...could be related to ovulation.

I am just noticing sharp cramps similar to pre-AF. Not sure what to make of it. I think I typically have something like this around this time. I am also having lotiony discharge. It is probably just the progesterone suppository. But I feel like before I had that when I woke up & then maybe the next time I went to the bathroom mid morning...then no more. It seems to be lasting longer this time. But that was 2 cycles ago...so probably means nothing. I am only taking P right before bed. Anyone else one P only at night & seem to have this discharge?

 

[babylala]

Welcome luvsgreen! Glad that you joined us and you definitely came to the right place for support. I hope that seeing a specialist will take some of the pressure of you. I feel better being under the watchful eye of an expert who gets people pregnant for a living! Keep us posted on how your appointment goes.

Ohh beaglemom lotiony discharge sounds promising! I'm on progesterone morning and night but I hate taking it in the morning because I basically have to set an alarm to take it and then just lie there for 45 minutes staring at the ceiling. My dog has been waking up too for some snuggles so that makes it more tolerable!

JCM my back was really sore yesterday but feels a lot better today. There's definitely something going on down there today but imagine it's still related to having a stronger ovulation? Who knows!

 

[luvsgreen]

Thanks @ babylala and beaglemom. It's funny because I love reading all of your stories, but don't post very often. I usually keep pretty quiet and read everyone else's journeys, but now I have gotten to the point where I feel like I need to vent on my own. Some days it is truly a struggle to keep going down this path, but I hope it won't be too much longer.

 

[JCM]

Stronger ovulation makes sense!
Ooooh beagle that sounds promising! The progesterone at night would make sense to see it in the morning but your afternoon stuff might be something good!
Babylala, I'm doing mine in the morning too so that's my plan as well. Wake up early and cuddle with dogs!
Welcome luvsgreen! It's nice to bounce thoughts off of this group! My situation is opposite of you! My husband has 4 kids 15,12,10,5. He had a vasectomy reversal a year and a half ago so we could have kids together. It's been a rough road but it will happen! So sorry about your losses. I extra love my husband for wanting to have more children with me! 4 is a lot! You are a good woman. : ) I hope your appt goes well so I'll have one more iui to look forward to during my wait! My blood test isn't until the 23rd. I need lots of distractions!!!