Hello ladies and possibly very rare gentlemen,
I've been lurking for a little bit and decided that I should actually introduce myself. It'll be nice to have people to talk to who are in similar boats.
My partner and I are both 35 years old. We'll be celebrating our 5th wedding anniversary later this month. We went off contraception three years ago thinking that we'd just get pregnant sooner or later if we weren't actively preventing it from happening. When that didn't work, a little bit over a year ago we decided to get "serious" about this procreation thing. We started timing intercourse, using ovulation prediction kits, temping and what not, but no baby happened. We began seeing a fertility specialist a little while ago.
He did an ultrasound, and found a couple of very tiny cysts in one of my ovaries, which he didn't seem too anxious about. Then he did an HSG (ouch), which showed what might be several polyps in my uterus and some thickening of part of my uterine wall which might be endometriosis.
At that point, I started getting nervous. I'm 35, but I always thought I was a healthy 35 outside of some trouble with asthma. All my pelvic exams and pap smears and everything have been normal up until now. My BMI has always been in the "healthy" range. I don't smoke or drink to excess or eat junk. As far as I know, I've never had a radioactive spider bite. I wasn't expecting them to actually find something wrong with me-- I was more expecting they'd tell my husband that his little swimmers were lopsided from drinking too much soda or something like that.
We're trying a round of Clomid this month (which makes me nervous, having read about it, but at least they prescribed a low dose), and my husband is having a sperm analysis just to make sure his little guys aren't contributing to the problem. We're scheduled for another appointment with the doctor next week, and I'll be having another ultrasound shortly after that.
Sorry for the novel. Nice to meet you.
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TTC since 08/2012
DX: DOR
TTC #1
Me: AMA, DH: MFI
Official DX - MFI due to Hemochromatosis
IVF #1 Nov. 2014 - ER 11/10 (10R 6M 6F) - ET 11/13
3DT of 3 embies - no frosties - CP = BFFN!!!!
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The results from the SA *should* be back very soon if they aren't already, but I did start the Clomid already-- I hope it doesn't end up being wasteful.
Both of the doctors at the clinic are REs and they had pretty good reviews online, so I hope that I made the right choice in that regard. There were several clinics nearby, so I wound up picking one based on the experiences of other people and snooping around the Internet.
09/28/2015- Surprise! Conrad and Hudson born at 35w6d!
Me (29) DH (37)
Married 7/11
Actively TTC 3/12
DX: PCOS
Current treatment: Break from IUIs until after the holidays
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Me (26) & DH (26)
Dog Momma to 2 amazing furbabies
Started dating: May 6, 2005 & Married: August 4, 2012
Diagnosis: PCOS
September 2013 - January 2014: Not trying but not preventing
February 2014: Officially TTC (BBT, OPKs, etc)
February-August 2014: Irregular Cycles, U/S showed Fibroids/Cysts, Provera required to get AF, BFNs
September & October 2014: Testing Months with Reproductive Endocrinologist!
DH's SA: Normal (116.4 million sperm, 97% motility, 36% morphology) - WHO criteria
DH's Repeat SA: Poss. Low Morph. (138 million sperm, 73% motility, 8% morphology) - Kruger criteria
HSG and SIS: Normal (tubes clear)
Medicated Cycle: 5mg Letrozole + Trigger Injection + TI = BFP!!
ESTIMATED DUE DATE: AUGUST 13, 2015
Beta #1: 12/8 - 1,040 Beta #2: 12/10 - 2,902 Beta #3: 12/16 - 19,321
Ultrasound #1: 12/12 (5 weeks 1 day) - Gestational sac and yolk sac present
Ultrasound #2: 12/18 (6 weeks 0 days) - Measuring good, heart rate 99
Ultrasound #3: 12/26 (7 weeks 1 day) - Measuring good, heart rate 150
PCOS | Anovulatory | Metformin + Letrozole
TTC #1 with IUI and donor sperm
First IUI May, 2014, Clomid + Trigger = BFN
Second IUI July, 2014, Clomid + Trigger = BFN
Third IUI Dec, 2014, Femara + Follistim + Trigger = BFN
Fourth IUI Feb 2015, Femara + Follistim + Trigger = C/P