Well we started our first try….we knew it would be a journey but still it sucks when you hit bumps in the road.
As you recall I did not respond to clomid so they put me on injections. Yup, I had to stick myself in the tummy everyday for a week. Not that bad seeing as the end result will lead me to my dream!!! The first shot was the hardest..i could never be a druggy…I do not enjoy sticking myself!!!
Well after two days of shots I had to go back into the doc to check my follicle growth (yes that means another probe encounter…they don’t even phase me now). Of course I wouldn’t be responding normally….however, this time I did not fail to respond….I OVER RESPONDED!! When you are talking to your RE and she counts your large follicles you never want to hear the words “octo-mom” come out of her mouth. Low and behold I was well on my way of becoming the octomom because I had way too many large follicles.
The doc changed my meds to a different shot…the idea was that this medication would cause some of the smaller follicles to drop out and only leave behind a few of the large ones and the procedure would go along as planned. This time I was able to share my “shooting up” experience with Elise. She got to partake in the fun and games and I asked her to give me my shot for the three days on the other medication. Wouldn’t you know the shots that hurt the worst were the ones that Elise gave me…she was really gentile and I think it was my imagination J
After a few days of the new meds we had to go back to the doc to find out the day we were going to inseminate…she had to see how mature the follicles were. Well yup..you guessed it…I over responded to those meds too and all my large follicles dropped out…so my largest follicle that day was smaller than most of my follicles the first time. She gave us the option of just attempting with miniscule chances (I'm talking a snow ball has a better chance in hell than we did to get preggers). We decided 1% chance of getting pregnant is still better than 0% and we gave it a try.
A few days later it was time for insemination. It wasn’t romantic like most conceptions but I didn’t care. The doc pulled out a catheter filled with our donor sperm and proceeded to insert it in my area…through the cervix and directly into the uterus. She told us to think about babies and conception. It wasn’t painful at all…it took about 2 min (the longest of the was putting on gloves and inserting to speculum…the actually insertion and injection lasted about 2 seconds.
The doc told us to come in for a blood test in a week to see if I ovulated….I waited a week and went in. Sadly I did not ovulate so there was no chance that we were pregnant. We were prepared for this but it still stinks.
So now we move on to IVF. The expensive journey that will hopefully make us mommies….
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