July IUI, anyone?

[Moorebetter]

TTCisapain no trigger shot here. I o like a champ, Clomid was given but thats it!

Im excited we DTD sunday night... im not stressing out about it tho. This month has been crazy enough. If its meant for me to knocked up so be it! if not on to another month!!!

 

[Moorebetter]

alicatt numbers look good! theres really no tell tell signs Ive found for the 21 day, but your numbers show ovulation!! have a wonderful rest of your 2ww~~~

 

[alicatt]

alicatt numbers look good! theres really no tell tell signs Ive found for the 21 day, but your numbers show ovulation!! have a wonderful rest of your 2ww~~~

Thanks! The nurse said that was a great number too, and was hopeful it would turn out to be a positive beta next week.

to you!!!

 

[dbluett]

TTCisapain no trigger shot here. I o like a champ, Clomid was given but thats it!

Im excited we DTD sunday night... im not stressing out about it tho. This month has been crazy enough. If its meant for me to knocked up so be it! if not on to another month!!!

Wish you luck!! Keep us updated.

We DTD last Thursday ( the day i trggered), had my IUI on sat morning, then DTD sat night and then DTD on sunday ngiht. We were not taking any chances LOL.

 

[sweetc]

tlm- sorry to hear about your BFN. Keep us updated on what your RE says.

As for me, does anyone else here feel like they have multiple personalities? The past few days I've had a good feeling about getting my BFP this month... and today, I feel so bloated and crampy it feels like AF will be appearing this weekend. Anything is possible, I just hate feeling so back and forth all the time. Ack! Anyone else in tww feel this way? I'm only 8dpiui, so at least another five before they'll schedule my bloodtest... Oy! It might be a long rest of the week I am sure by tomorrow I will be sure I'll get my BFP again. Just needed to vent!

This is SOO me with the MPD. I am up and down and up and down. And then my DH tries to attribute my moodiness to being a pregnancy sign. While I always hate it when AF comes, at least then I KNOW what the result was versus all the uncertainty.

Hey All..

So nice to see so much discussion here about IUIs! My IUIs in FL without insurance as my insurance doesn't cover any of the cost, just the fertility testing. So my IUIs cost $350, but I chose to go for the package which was $950 it included all the US and the beta test, and 1 IUI. I opted to do 2 IUIs back to back last month (unsuccessful) so I just had to add the $350 to the cost, for a total of $1300, then there was the Clomid I took which was $31 I believe. I am single so I had to pay for 2 vials of donor sperm, which was another $1500. It wasn't a cheap month!

After all that I forgot to ask about my progesterone results! :hehe:

Do any of you have any knowledge of what a 7dpo, 21 day progesterone level should be?
Mine was 31.4 and I'm trying to figure out if this is good, bad or indifferent. Also are there any correlations with progesterone levels and being pregnant? She did a beta just to see where we were at, and it was only 0.4. So not showing pregnant yet, but again it is only 7dpo.

Mine was 44. I think anything above 15 is good for a medicated round and means you ovulated. I think there is reasoning that you ovulated more than one egg if you are much higher, but I don't think it is a perfect math (like one egg for every 10 more or anything like that). I was reminded that it cannot be a predictor for pregnancy at all, rather letting you know that if you WERE pregnant, you are in a better place for sustaining the pregnancy without progesterone support.

 

[bloodravon]

what insurance do you all have? I have Kaiser Socal.. 50% coverage for IUI and 0 for IVF
anything infertility related costs me 50% no copays here! this cycle will = 1000 out of pocket.. startin to wonder if this doesnt work if IVF maybe a better investment.



good luck all!

I have Aetna. They cover diagnostics only so my U/S, meds are covered with copays ($30 for visits / $45 for Ovidrel, and other med are $5.00 copay). My sperm washing / insemination is $224.00 at my office, so that is out of pocket, and the supplements that we are taking ... I am spending about $500-600 per cycle including buying OPK kit, and all the other fun stuff that comes along with it.

My thoughts going the IUI route was that it is 20-30% chance and IVF is only 30% chance too, so if it works definitely worth the savings of $10K for IVF (my IVF is not covered either). My DH and I are thinking of adoption rather than IVF if IUI's do not work. Personally, my brother was adopted, so I am mentally fine with going that route. I would rather spend the $10-15K on the adoption knowing I will have a little one there .. but, we all have to make some tough decisions with trying to have a child.

Wishing you luck, but just wanted to let you know my DH and I went through the same thoughts and that is how we came to the conclusion.

Thanks for the reply! We are on the waiting list for adoption. The country we are interested in isn't open to USA adoptions yet, at least in the us adoption fees at tax deductible !! My DH is up for both if we save.. He comes from a large family

 

[bloodravon]

On our way home from IUI . I only released one egg ( assuming the 22 there is a 21 left ready to go) going to follow up with lots of DTD tonight and tomorrow. Fertiliaid got DH numbers up to 21.9 per and 9.8 post wash .Better than nothing! But his morphology was under 10% I'm not feeling great about that! The dr did show on the ultra sound all the swimmers alreading moving into the tubes!! Go little dudes!!

Our IUI was 36.5 hrs post trigger and 40 post lh surge.

Your numbers are looking great girls, off to rent a movie and put my feet up!!!

 

[alicatt]

tlm- sorry to hear about your BFN. Keep us updated on what your RE says.

As for me, does anyone else here feel like they have multiple personalities? The past few days I've had a good feeling about getting my BFP this month... and today, I feel so bloated and crampy it feels like AF will be appearing this weekend. Anything is possible, I just hate feeling so back and forth all the time. Ack! Anyone else in tww feel this way? I'm only 8dpiui, so at least another five before they'll schedule my bloodtest... Oy! It might be a long rest of the week I am sure by tomorrow I will be sure I'll get my BFP again. Just needed to vent!

This is SOO me with the MPD. I am up and down and up and down. And then my DH tries to attribute my moodiness to being a pregnancy sign. While I always hate it when AF comes, at least then I KNOW what the result was versus all the uncertainty.

Hey All..

So nice to see so much discussion here about IUIs! My IUIs in FL without insurance as my insurance doesn't cover any of the cost, just the fertility testing. So my IUIs cost $350, but I chose to go for the package which was $950 it included all the US and the beta test, and 1 IUI. I opted to do 2 IUIs back to back last month (unsuccessful) so I just had to add the $350 to the cost, for a total of $1300, then there was the Clomid I took which was $31 I believe. I am single so I had to pay for 2 vials of donor sperm, which was another $1500. It wasn't a cheap month!

After all that I forgot to ask about my progesterone results! :hehe:

Do any of you have any knowledge of what a 7dpo, 21 day progesterone level should be?
Mine was 31.4 and I'm trying to figure out if this is good, bad or indifferent. Also are there any correlations with progesterone levels and being pregnant? She did a beta just to see where we were at, and it was only 0.4. So not showing pregnant yet, but again it is only 7dpo.

Mine was 44. I think anything above 15 is good for a medicated round and means you ovulated. I think there is reasoning that you ovulated more than one egg if you are much higher, but I don't think it is a perfect math (like one egg for every 10 more or anything like that). I was reminded that it cannot be a predictor for pregnancy at all, rather letting you know that if you WERE pregnant, you are in a better place for sustaining the pregnancy without progesterone support.

OK, good to know.. so I was not medicated this month (I was in June, but not July), so do you think that it means I might have released 2 eggs? Or was it just one really good one? Well I'll stop obsessing now ya, right! Who am I kidding? I'm driving myself crazy !

 

[dbluett]

On our way home from IUI . I only released one egg ( assuming the 22 there is a 21 left ready to go) going to follow up with lots of DTD tonight and tomorrow. Fertiliaid got DH numbers up to 21.9 per and 9.8 post wash .Better than nothing! But his morphology was under 10% I'm not feeling great about that! The dr did show on the ultra sound all the swimmers alreading moving into the tubes!! Go little dudes!!

Our IUI was 36.5 hrs post trigger and 40 post lh surge.

Your numbers are looking great girls, off to rent a movie and put my feet up!!!

Remember it only takes one egg

 

[TTCisapain]

Alicat -- prog test looks great. Agree w/ the others that it cannot be an indicator of preg just that you O'd and if you were preg you could sustain the pregnancy. Mine was 55 last month and I got a BFN. My doctor said they want to see anything above 15 too, but some Drs say anything above 10-12. Also, I was on 200 mgs of oral prog after IUI, so that helps the #s. However, I saw a bunch of posts b/c I am a crazy internet stalker that a lot of women that were in the 80s+ had BFNs and women that were 18 had BFPs, so its anyones guess.

Hope you have a good 2WW and wishing you baby dust!!

 

[TTCisapain]

Ok ladies ... got the call from the Dr ... they want me to hang tight and have a f/u U/s on Friday morning ... gosh 3 U/S on one week (thank goodness my insurance is covering them so far).

But, still supposed to do OPKs and if I get a + tomorrow call and schedule IUI for Friday afternoon =) ... I will keep y'all posted

 

[bloodravon]

GL TTCisapain!! we had 3 thsi week as well, i am only covered 50% so it was a bit of a hit for us.. hopfully its worth all the pokin gand proding for you!!

 

[bloodravon]

GL Alicat, im jealous yo uall get cd 21 numbers.. i get an us day of to confim O but no garentee... good luck .. test in how many more days 7?

 

[dbluett]

Ok ladies ... got the call from the Dr ... they want me to hang tight and have a f/u U/s on Friday morning ... gosh 3 U/S on one week (thank goodness my insurance is covering them so far).

But, still supposed to do OPKs and if I get a + tomorrow call and schedule IUI for Friday afternoon =) ... I will keep y'all posted

In two weeks I had 7u/s. Just like you thankfully my insurance covered them

 

[tanpeach]

I had my IUI today. Cervix was a little hard and had a lttle issue. Everything turned out well. Now the 2 week waiting period begin. I took 5 mg letrazole for 5 days and a shot with bravelle. Had 2 follicles one on the left and one on the right ovaray and 19 and 21. Baby dust all around for everyone.

 

[TTCinTexas]

I had my IUI today. Cervix was a little hard and had a lttle issue. Everything turned out well. Now the 2 week waiting period begin. I took 5 mg letrazole for 5 days and a shot with bravelle. Had 2 follicles one on the left and one on the right ovaray and 19 and 21. Baby dust all around for everyone.

I just did my IUI as well. I had a double IUI monday and tuesday with two follicles....one on right was 22 and 16 on the left. The second one hurt a bit and I feel like I did a million sit ups but it's worth it for the !!

 

[dbluett]

I had my IUI today. Cervix was a little hard and had a lttle issue. Everything turned out well. Now the 2 week waiting period begin. I took 5 mg letrazole for 5 days and a shot with bravelle. Had 2 follicles one on the left and one on the right ovaray and 19 and 21. Baby dust all around for everyone.

I just did my IUI as well. I had a double IUI monday and tuesday with two follicles....one on right was 22 and 16 on the left. The second one hurt a bit and I feel like I did a million sit ups but it's worth it for the !!

Wish you the best of luck. I am now 5dpiui.
Heres hoping for alot of BFPs in the next few weeks.
to you!

 

[ILuvBabies200]

On our way home from IUI . I only released one egg ( assuming the 22 there is a 21 left ready to go) going to follow up with lots of DTD tonight and tomorrow. Fertiliaid got DH numbers up to 21.9 per and 9.8 post wash .Better than nothing! But his morphology was under 10% I'm not feeling great about that! The dr did show on the ultra sound all the swimmers alreading moving into the tubes!! Go little dudes!!

Our IUI was 36.5 hrs post trigger and 40 post lh surge.

Your numbers are looking great girls, off to rent a movie and put my feet up!!!

Remember it only takes one egg

With PCOS though there is often a quality issue which my doc thinks is what's going on with me. I lose sooo many embryos in my IVF's. So IUI scares me!!!

 

[Moorebetter]

I also had my IUI today Wishing everyone a great iui

 

[fisher640]

Alicat -- prog test looks great. Agree w/ the others that it cannot be an indicator of preg just that you O'd and if you were preg you could sustain the pregnancy. Mine was 55 last month and I got a BFN. My doctor said they want to see anything above 15 too, but some Drs say anything above 10-12. Also, I was on 200 mgs of oral prog after IUI, so that helps the #s. However, I saw a bunch of posts b/c I am a crazy internet stalker that a lot of women that were in the 80s+ had BFNs and women that were 18 had BFPs, so its anyones guess.

Hope you have a good 2WW and wishing you baby dust!!

Mine was 65 and definitely got a BFN that month.