@bluejeanbabi05 i go in Friday morning for progesterone. Eep!
@pawcall of my 3 IUIs only one gave me cramping after, but only very mild, I went to work after all of them with no issues. I did, however, have horrible O pain this last cycle, but that was the clomid, not the IUI.
@amanda_1182 i agree with pp. your Dr is basically assuming low progesterone instead of actually testing for it. I would question anyone who doesn't follow evidence based practice. Especially since cysts from clomid can bench you (which would be irritating if testing showed clomid actually isn't the answer for you). My OB was "confidant" I was ovulating, but never actually did the bloodwork to confirm, so we wasted months on unmedicated IUIs that we now know we're pointless because I wasn't actually ovulating a mature egg.
Me: 39 SO: 36
Dx: low progesterone, possible DOR - officially "unexplained"
TTC#1 since November 2015 9/16/2016 IUI#1 - BFN 10/12/2016 IUI#2 - BFN 1/21/2017 Clomid/IUI#3 - BFN March 2017 IVF: BFP! (beta#1 191, beta#2 378!) - it's a boy! DS born 12/6/2017
TTC #2 since July 2018 May 2019 IVF #2: BFP! (beta#1 346, beta#2 646) - vanishing twin at 8 weeks. Baby B still going strong - due 2/8/20!
Thanks ladies. I'll demand testing next time. This was my first iui and I was so full of hope, even though my Dr. said I only had a 10-12% chance of conceiving from iui. Now that it didn't work, I'm devastated. This is only my FIRST iui....how do you keep going through this month after month???
@pawcall My IUI was very quick and easy. I scheduled it for the middle of the day and rested at home afterwards but I could have gone back to work.
History and blog link in spoiler
2016 - dx with super low ovarian reserve; failed cycle with clomid, failed IUI, 2017 - egg retrieval #1 - 3 eggs, 0 embryos appropriate for transfer; ER #2 2 eggs, 0 embryos on day 3; ER #3 1 egg 0 embryos moved to donor egg in summer 2017; 35 eggs retrieved; 19 fertilized; 9 total embryos Fresh transfer Dec 2017= BFP! baby boy born 8/22/18
May 2019 - surprise natural pregnancy ended in MC Nov 2019 FET; MC at 9 weeks May 2020 FET; BFN July 2020 FET; CP treated with methotrexate Oct 2020 BFP!
My IUI wasn't terrible. A little bit of cramping but nothing unbearable. I did take the rest of the day off work to relax though. Hopefully it helped!
TTC since 01/2011 07/2013 - First round of testing - CD21 and CD3 blood tests and HSG + multiple SAs for DH 07/2013 - Diagnosis - Anovulatory and DH has very low counts - Referral to urologist for further testing 08/2013 - Urologist showed varcocele veins and testicular defect from birth. Unable to repair 11/2013 - Consult with RE regarding treatment. Benched due to finances 2014/2015 - Took break from pursuing treatment, moved to a new province 06/2016 - DH redid SA as per direction from new family doctor - Counts have increased!! 07/2016 - Consult with new RE - ordered a repeat HSG 09/2016 - Providing no issues on HSG - Scheduled to start first IUI with Clomid 01/17/2017 - First IUI with Clomid - BFP - M/C @ 9 weeks
@amanda_1182 the first failed IUI is definitely the hardest! Hang in there, success rates of IUI + clomid peak between 3 and 6 cycles, which means the more you do the better your chances at this point.
Me: 39 SO: 36
Dx: low progesterone, possible DOR - officially "unexplained"
TTC#1 since November 2015 9/16/2016 IUI#1 - BFN 10/12/2016 IUI#2 - BFN 1/21/2017 Clomid/IUI#3 - BFN March 2017 IVF: BFP! (beta#1 191, beta#2 378!) - it's a boy! DS born 12/6/2017
TTC #2 since July 2018 May 2019 IVF #2: BFP! (beta#1 346, beta#2 646) - vanishing twin at 8 weeks. Baby B still going strong - due 2/8/20!
@pawcall my first IUI was on Tuesday and when the nurse said she was done I said "really? That was easy!" She compared it to a Pap smear but to me it wasn't as painful. I went back to work since I'm at a desk. Had mild cramping but very mild. Good luck to you!
@amanda_1182 I'm so sorry to hear about your IUI fail. My RE yesterday assured me that cumulative success rates go up after 3-4. He is willing to do 6 with me and I'm 42! But I think we will go to IVF after 2 IUI due to my age...hang in there, and I will pray next cycle is your BFP.
AFM, trying to stay distracted as it's only 3DPO for me since IUI #1. The nurse said to do a HPT 2 weeks after IUI. I typically have a long luteal phase (period pretty faithfully starts morning of day 17) so I wondered how that would affect test results but RE said Femara should standardize that length for me so we'll see.
@PoeMasque I never heard iui rates peak between cycles 3-6. i desperately needed to hear this today. I'm 10dpo and a bfn this morning. I know it's early but i'm really feeling out. It's my 2nd iui cycle and i was so hopeful ugh. the original plan was 3 iuis then ivf but my new insurance requries 6 iuis. i was super bummed at the thought of 6 but you just brightened my day, thank you
TW*** Child and loss mentioned Married 10/12 DS 11/14 Ectopic 2/16 PCOS/Ovulation Dysfunction 11/16 IUI x 3- BFN Laparoscopy 3/17 Endo and tubal damage IVF- 4/17- 40 eggs retrieved, 10 blasts, 7 pgs tested embryos FET- 6/17- BFP! Due Feb 15, 2017
@amanda_1182, I'm so sorry. @brooklyngirl18 - I am hoping your BFN is from a too-early test, am keeping FX for you and sending hugs your way!
Today is CD13 for me, and I'm getting paranoid because no positive OPK yet. Historically, I generally have positives on CD13, so the negative today really bummed me out. I'm going to go buy a couple of other tests at lunch and take them, and then call our clinic. The thought of missing another IUI for whatever reason seems unbearable to me; if for some reason we don't get to go, I might actually need to take a break, I feel so gutted. I'm doing everything that's recommended of me, and still it's not enough - my body keeps letting me down.
Anyway, here's an updated chart - FX for everyone who will be testing this weekend and next week!
@amanda_1182 - I'm so sorry about the BFN. I feel you though, I'm finding it hard to imagine how I'll get through month after month of this. I feel like I've kind of deluded myself into thinking that it *has* to work because all of my testing is normal, so if we put the stuff where it belongs, we should be good to go. Intellectually, I realize that's not the way it works, but I just desperately want it to be true, you know?
Does anyone know what the success rates of unmedicated IUI are? I don't think there's anything to medicate, I'm ovulating just fine on my own, I have a nice thick lining, literally the only thing wrong that we've found are his weird-shaped sperm.
The doc I saw today told me that the IUI would be really easy, definitely easier than the STP. She said that in her experience, women who had previously given birth barely even feel it.
AFM -I'm freaking out. The timing on this is terrible. My fiance and I are selling our houses and buying a new house and we have the inspection on one of the houses we're selling tomorrow morning. That happens to be the house that's nearish to the hospital - so now I'm super stressing getting the sample there in time.
~Mom to an amazing Jan 2011 boy~ ~EDD Nov 18, 2017 with my IUI success story~
Hi All, my name is Lori and I'm new to the community! My husband and I have been trying to conceive for a little over two years. Three failed IUI. RE tells us all tests are completely normal. Have been on clomid on and off for a year. Just switched to famara. Just had my 4th IUI on 1/2017. Excited to lean on women going through the same thing. Thx!
Hi @lvandercrake (Lori) - welcome! When did you have your IUI? When will you know by? FX! @pawcall - I hear you re: inconvenient timing. I know that's a weird thing to complain about, but you know, this whole T-TTC thing is awful and painful and sometimes I catch myself thinking: "at the very least, could it just not affect my schedule?" I think the success rates depend on what underlying issues you have. We're unexplained, so all of this is a shot in the dark. I'm so tired of everything looking good and it turning out bad!
An update on our IUI: I spoke to the clinic after my second negative OPK, and am going in for bloodwork early tomorrow morning. Once they test me, they'll let me know if I've ovulated or not. The nurse said it is unlikely, and that sometimes clomid will affect a cycle's length. Her calm made me calm, so I'm feeling more optimistic than I was earlier. What a roller coaster!
@pawcall@funkykey amen on the bad timing. If this doesn't work it's ivf in March and a potential mid December due date for me any due date is great of course, but DHs family does a series of huge holiday parties and the thought of passing a brand new LO around makes me itchy
So after trying really hard not to symptom watch, I couldn't help myself and decided to test today. BFP!! I can't believe it! I'm in shock right now! FX for more BFP's this month!!
TTC since 01/2011 07/2013 - First round of testing - CD21 and CD3 blood tests and HSG + multiple SAs for DH 07/2013 - Diagnosis - Anovulatory and DH has very low counts - Referral to urologist for further testing 08/2013 - Urologist showed varcocele veins and testicular defect from birth. Unable to repair 11/2013 - Consult with RE regarding treatment. Benched due to finances 2014/2015 - Took break from pursuing treatment, moved to a new province 06/2016 - DH redid SA as per direction from new family doctor - Counts have increased!! 07/2016 - Consult with new RE - ordered a repeat HSG 09/2016 - Providing no issues on HSG - Scheduled to start first IUI with Clomid 01/17/2017 - First IUI with Clomid - BFP - M/C @ 9 weeks
So after trying really hard not to symptom watch, I couldn't help myself and decided to test today. BFP!! I can't believe it! I'm in shock right now! FX for more BFP's this month!!
So after trying really hard not to symptom watch, I couldn't help myself and decided to test today. BFP!! I can't believe it! I'm in shock right now! FX for more BFP's this month!!
Ahhhhhh congrats!
~Mom to an amazing Jan 2011 boy~ ~EDD Nov 18, 2017 with my IUI success story~
IUI done. They said my lining looked great at 14, he had plenty of sperm (36 million) and based on yesterday's bloodwork they were confident i would be ovulating today.
I have to call to schedule progesterone bw for next week and my HPT date is 2/11.
~Mom to an amazing Jan 2011 boy~ ~EDD Nov 18, 2017 with my IUI success story~
@pawcall FX for a quick TWW! Always better when everything looks good from the outset
AFM - progesterone came back at 32, woot!! It was 7.9 without the clomid last cycle, so I'm feeling super hopeful that this is our answer and we can avoid IVF (cause, how awesome would it be to have that money for longer maternity leave?!). Trying not to be too hopefully and failing miserably. Haha.
Will test in 5 days, 5 very long days eep!
Me: 39 SO: 36
Dx: low progesterone, possible DOR - officially "unexplained"
TTC#1 since November 2015 9/16/2016 IUI#1 - BFN 10/12/2016 IUI#2 - BFN 1/21/2017 Clomid/IUI#3 - BFN March 2017 IVF: BFP! (beta#1 191, beta#2 378!) - it's a boy! DS born 12/6/2017
TTC #2 since July 2018 May 2019 IVF #2: BFP! (beta#1 346, beta#2 646) - vanishing twin at 8 weeks. Baby B still going strong - due 2/8/20!
how much bleeding is ok post IUI? The doc told me she could tell I was spotting but ffs if I didn't know better I'd think this was my period. Definitely beyond spotting. Normal, I hope?
~Mom to an amazing Jan 2011 boy~ ~EDD Nov 18, 2017 with my IUI success story~
@poemasque I'm so happy for you with the progesterone results! I test in 3 days which also seems like forever, but too soon at the same time.
@pawcall I'm glad your IUI went well! I didn't spot after my IUI but if your RE said it was fine I wouldn't stress too much about it. Maybe if you're still spotting Monday call them?
@bluejeanbabi05 i feel you on the long, yet short wait....I'm so afraid to test, yet so tired of waiting!!
@pawcall it really depends on what normal period bleeding looks like for you. I had a "friable" area on my cervix for one of my IUIs and spotted for 3 days after. If you are bleeding, as in changing a pad/tampon every few hours I would call your RE.
Me: 39 SO: 36
Dx: low progesterone, possible DOR - officially "unexplained"
TTC#1 since November 2015 9/16/2016 IUI#1 - BFN 10/12/2016 IUI#2 - BFN 1/21/2017 Clomid/IUI#3 - BFN March 2017 IVF: BFP! (beta#1 191, beta#2 378!) - it's a boy! DS born 12/6/2017
TTC #2 since July 2018 May 2019 IVF #2: BFP! (beta#1 346, beta#2 646) - vanishing twin at 8 weeks. Baby B still going strong - due 2/8/20!
Bloodwork this morning came back with an LH surge, so we're going in tomorrow. I didn't have a positive OPK until this evening though.
@bluejeanbabi05 - right, the ol' birth month timing. Hadn't even thought of that - I was thinking on a much smaller scale. Like today, there were all these things I couldn't plan for because I wasn't sure if I was going to have to go to the clinic or not. A friend asked if I wanted to go to the gym or for a run, and I didn't want to make plans or have to take a phone call while I was with her.
@funkykey is your office able to do a mid cycle ultrasound and trigger ovulation based on that? It might be helpful for timing, especially given the problems of OPK test.
**debbie downer post to follow*** I'm out this month. I didn't test, just waited for my period to start. It came right on schedule. Pregnancy rates for IUI peak at 3-4cycle, with 95-98% of people who will become pregnant actually become pregnant. We're now past that point, but insurance requires us to do 6. So my period on schedule was actually a relief because it brings us closer to finishing these IUI cycles. FX that these nothing funky on my baseline sono today and that I can start Clomid tonight for the last time!
@SugarHead just wanted to say sorry about this cycle but glad it's moving you closer to your next step and that you have a plan.
@funkykey thinking of you today and good luck! Also, I wanted to thank you for the spreadsheet that you do. It's so nice to see how everyone's doing and gives me some hope when I see those BFP's coming in!
AFM, trying to think of anything else for distraction until HPT on 2/7. Ugh...I'm not very patient.
@funkykey yeah, I learned fast that birth month timing doesn't work. I'm happy with any birth month now after 18 months of nothing. The thought of IVF has me actually really hopeful now and feeling like I did those first couple months when I thought I could actually plan things. Need to adjust expectations again.
I'm glad you get to go in tomorrow and that you can make short term plans now
Hello! I'm new to this board! DH and I have been married for 10 years, TTC for 8 years. We started seeing fertility specialist in June 2016. First IUI was 1/18 with femara, trigger, and progesterone suppositories. Beta is on 2/1. Feeling cautiously optimistic.
@lvandercrake - Welcome! Sorry to hear it's been so rough, I'm on my first IUI but really, all of our testing is pretty good. He just has some funky shaped boys - but our RE doesn't feel like that should be stopping us. It's really frustrating - it would feel like it made more sense if there was something WRONG (not that I'd actually wish for that).
@funkykey - did you have your IUI today??? Thank you soooo much for the spreadsheet - it's really helpful (I'm a super visual person).
@SugarHead - I'm so sorry. How many IUI's have you done now? I hope your sono was good and you can move forward.
@megs4484 - Welcome! I hope this IUI was just what you needed! Keep us posted!
Me - I realize the ridiculousness of it, but I can't help but think of
timing. Like, if this IUI worked, it would be really wonderful timing
for me work-wise. I could transition my end of year project to someone
else and come back and start fresh. But obviously, I would take a BFP
any way, any time I could get it.
~Mom to an amazing Jan 2011 boy~ ~EDD Nov 18, 2017 with my IUI success story~
hey ladies. I'm 13dpo with a bfn. I always get my period 11 dpo or 12 dpo but I haven't even had a big temp drop yet. I know by now I should have a positive if I'm pregnant so my question is should i bother going for my beta tomorrow or just wait for my period? i hate the thought of going for a blood test that I know is negative. my other question is have you guys noticed a longer lp on clomid?
TW*** Child and loss mentioned Married 10/12 DS 11/14 Ectopic 2/16 PCOS/Ovulation Dysfunction 11/16 IUI x 3- BFN Laparoscopy 3/17 Endo and tubal damage IVF- 4/17- 40 eggs retrieved, 10 blasts, 7 pgs tested embryos FET- 6/17- BFP! Due Feb 15, 2017
@brooklyngirl18 you know what will be best for your emotional well-being, that's what I would do. My nurse told me explicitly not to test before my beta because she sees women get positive betas all the time after a neg HPT.
Re: January IUI
@pawcall of my 3 IUIs only one gave me cramping after, but only very mild, I went to work after all of them with no issues. I did, however, have horrible O pain this last cycle, but that was the clomid, not the IUI.
@amanda_1182 i agree with pp. your Dr is basically assuming low progesterone instead of actually testing for it. I would question anyone who doesn't follow evidence based practice. Especially since cysts from clomid can bench you (which would be irritating if testing showed clomid actually isn't the answer for you). My OB was "confidant" I was ovulating, but never actually did the bloodwork to confirm, so we wasted months on unmedicated IUIs that we now know we're pointless because I wasn't actually ovulating a mature egg.
TTC#1 since November 2015
9/16/2016 IUI#1 - BFN
10/12/2016 IUI#2 - BFN
1/21/2017 Clomid/IUI#3 - BFN
March 2017 IVF: BFP! (beta#1 191, beta#2 378!) - it's a boy! DS born 12/6/2017
TTC #2 since July 2018
May 2019 IVF #2: BFP! (beta#1 346, beta#2 646) - vanishing twin at 8 weeks. Baby B still going strong - due 2/8/20!
2017 - egg retrieval #1 - 3 eggs, 0 embryos appropriate for transfer; ER #2 2 eggs, 0 embryos on day 3; ER #3 1 egg 0 embryos
moved to donor egg in summer 2017; 35 eggs retrieved; 19 fertilized; 9 total embryos
Fresh transfer Dec 2017= BFP! baby boy born 8/22/18
May 2019 - surprise natural pregnancy ended in MC
Nov 2019 FET; MC at 9 weeks
May 2020 FET; BFN
July 2020 FET; CP treated with methotrexate
Oct 2020 BFP!
Take a look at my blog
TTC since 01/2011
07/2013 - First round of testing - CD21 and CD3 blood tests and HSG + multiple SAs for DH
07/2013 - Diagnosis - Anovulatory and DH has very low counts - Referral to urologist for further testing
08/2013 - Urologist showed varcocele veins and testicular defect from birth. Unable to repair
11/2013 - Consult with RE regarding treatment. Benched due to finances
2014/2015 - Took break from pursuing treatment, moved to a new province
06/2016 - DH redid SA as per direction from new family doctor - Counts have increased!!
07/2016 - Consult with new RE - ordered a repeat HSG
09/2016 - Providing no issues on HSG - Scheduled to start first IUI with Clomid
01/17/2017 - First IUI with Clomid - BFP - M/C @ 9 weeks
Come on Baby "B"! Time to come out and play!
~EDD Nov 18, 2017 with my IUI success story~
[spoiler]
TTC#1 since November 2015
9/16/2016 IUI#1 - BFN
10/12/2016 IUI#2 - BFN
1/21/2017 Clomid/IUI#3 - BFN
March 2017 IVF: BFP! (beta#1 191, beta#2 378!) - it's a boy! DS born 12/6/2017
TTC #2 since July 2018
May 2019 IVF #2: BFP! (beta#1 346, beta#2 646) - vanishing twin at 8 weeks. Baby B still going strong - due 2/8/20!
@amanda_1182 I'm so sorry to hear about your IUI fail. My RE yesterday assured me that cumulative success rates go up after 3-4. He is willing to do 6 with me and I'm 42! But I think we will go to IVF after 2 IUI due to my age...hang in there, and I will pray next cycle is your BFP.
AFM, trying to stay distracted as it's only 3DPO for me since IUI #1. The nurse said to do a HPT 2 weeks after IUI. I typically have a long luteal phase (period pretty faithfully starts morning of day 17) so I wondered how that would affect test results but RE said Femara should standardize that length for me so we'll see.
~EDD Nov 18, 2017 with my IUI success story~
[spoiler]
@pawcall so exciting! How many follies do you have?
Married 10/12
DS 11/14
Ectopic 2/16
PCOS/Ovulation Dysfunction 11/16
IUI x 3- BFN
Laparoscopy 3/17 Endo and tubal damage
IVF- 4/17- 40 eggs retrieved, 10 blasts, 7 pgs tested embryos
FET- 6/17- BFP!
Due Feb 15, 2017
~EDD Nov 18, 2017 with my IUI success story~
[spoiler]
@brooklyngirl18 - I am hoping your BFN is from a too-early test, am keeping FX for you and sending hugs your way!
Today is CD13 for me, and I'm getting paranoid because no positive OPK yet. Historically, I generally have positives on CD13, so the negative today really bummed me out. I'm going to go buy a couple of other tests at lunch and take them, and then call our clinic. The thought of missing another IUI for whatever reason seems unbearable to me; if for some reason we don't get to go, I might actually need to take a break, I feel so gutted. I'm doing everything that's recommended of me, and still it's not enough - my body keeps letting me down.
Anyway, here's an updated chart - FX for everyone who will be testing this weekend and next week!
Married 10/12
DS 11/14
Ectopic 2/16
PCOS/Ovulation Dysfunction 11/16
IUI x 3- BFN
Laparoscopy 3/17 Endo and tubal damage
IVF- 4/17- 40 eggs retrieved, 10 blasts, 7 pgs tested embryos
FET- 6/17- BFP!
Due Feb 15, 2017
Does anyone know what the success rates of unmedicated IUI are? I don't think there's anything to medicate, I'm ovulating just fine on my own, I have a nice thick lining, literally the only thing wrong that we've found are his weird-shaped sperm.
The doc I saw today told me that the IUI would be really easy, definitely easier than the STP. She said that in her experience, women who had previously given birth barely even feel it.
AFM -I'm freaking out. The timing on this is terrible. My fiance and I are selling our houses and buying a new house and we have the inspection on one of the houses we're selling tomorrow morning. That happens to be the house that's nearish to the hospital - so now I'm super stressing getting the sample there in time.
~EDD Nov 18, 2017 with my IUI success story~
[spoiler]
@pawcall - I hear you re: inconvenient timing. I know that's a weird thing to complain about, but you know, this whole T-TTC thing is awful and painful and sometimes I catch myself thinking: "at the very least, could it just not affect my schedule?"
I think the success rates depend on what underlying issues you have. We're unexplained, so all of this is a shot in the dark. I'm so tired of everything looking good and it turning out bad!
An update on our IUI: I spoke to the clinic after my second negative OPK, and am going in for bloodwork early tomorrow morning. Once they test me, they'll let me know if I've ovulated or not. The nurse said it is unlikely, and that sometimes clomid will affect a cycle's length. Her calm made me calm, so I'm feeling more optimistic than I was earlier. What a roller coaster!
@pawcall @funkykey amen on the bad timing. If this doesn't work it's ivf in March and a potential mid December due date for me
fx for good news @funkykey
TTC since 01/2011
07/2013 - First round of testing - CD21 and CD3 blood tests and HSG + multiple SAs for DH
07/2013 - Diagnosis - Anovulatory and DH has very low counts - Referral to urologist for further testing
08/2013 - Urologist showed varcocele veins and testicular defect from birth. Unable to repair
11/2013 - Consult with RE regarding treatment. Benched due to finances
2014/2015 - Took break from pursuing treatment, moved to a new province
06/2016 - DH redid SA as per direction from new family doctor - Counts have increased!!
07/2016 - Consult with new RE - ordered a repeat HSG
09/2016 - Providing no issues on HSG - Scheduled to start first IUI with Clomid
01/17/2017 - First IUI with Clomid - BFP - M/C @ 9 weeks
Come on Baby "B"! Time to come out and play!
~EDD Nov 18, 2017 with my IUI success story~
[spoiler]
I have to call to schedule progesterone bw for next week and my HPT date is 2/11.
~EDD Nov 18, 2017 with my IUI success story~
[spoiler]
@pawcall FX for a quick TWW! Always better when everything looks good from the outset
AFM - progesterone came back at 32, woot!! It was 7.9 without the clomid last cycle, so I'm feeling super hopeful that this is our answer and we can avoid IVF (cause, how awesome would it be to have that money for longer maternity leave?!). Trying not to be too hopefully and failing miserably. Haha.
Will test in 5 days, 5 very long days eep!
TTC#1 since November 2015
9/16/2016 IUI#1 - BFN
10/12/2016 IUI#2 - BFN
1/21/2017 Clomid/IUI#3 - BFN
March 2017 IVF: BFP! (beta#1 191, beta#2 378!) - it's a boy! DS born 12/6/2017
TTC #2 since July 2018
May 2019 IVF #2: BFP! (beta#1 346, beta#2 646) - vanishing twin at 8 weeks. Baby B still going strong - due 2/8/20!
~EDD Nov 18, 2017 with my IUI success story~
[spoiler]
~EDD Nov 18, 2017 with my IUI success story~
[spoiler]
@pawcall I'm glad your IUI went well! I didn't spot after my IUI but if your RE said it was fine I wouldn't stress too much about it. Maybe if you're still spotting Monday call them?
@ZukiWife I know I'm new around here but have to say how excited I was to see your BFP!!! Wishing you smooth sailing ahead - that's just awesome news!
@pawcall it really depends on what normal period bleeding looks like for you. I had a "friable" area on my cervix for one of my IUIs and spotted for 3 days after. If you are bleeding, as in changing a pad/tampon every few hours I would call your RE.
TTC#1 since November 2015
9/16/2016 IUI#1 - BFN
10/12/2016 IUI#2 - BFN
1/21/2017 Clomid/IUI#3 - BFN
March 2017 IVF: BFP! (beta#1 191, beta#2 378!) - it's a boy! DS born 12/6/2017
TTC #2 since July 2018
May 2019 IVF #2: BFP! (beta#1 346, beta#2 646) - vanishing twin at 8 weeks. Baby B still going strong - due 2/8/20!
@bluejeanbabi05 - right, the ol' birth month timing. Hadn't even thought of that - I was thinking on a much smaller scale. Like today, there were all these things I couldn't plan for because I wasn't sure if I was going to have to go to the clinic or not. A friend asked if I wanted to go to the gym or for a run, and I didn't want to make plans or have to take a phone call while I was with her.
@ZukiWife - awesome news!!! Congratulations!!!!
@PoeMasque - I am really keeping my fingers crossed for you! FX!
@SugarHead - any news? Hoping you had good news, but if not, sending big hugs your way.
@funkykey is your office able to do a mid cycle ultrasound and trigger ovulation based on that? It might be helpful for timing, especially given the problems of OPK test.
**debbie downer post to follow***
I'm out this month. I didn't test, just waited for my period to start. It came right on schedule. Pregnancy rates for IUI peak at 3-4cycle, with 95-98% of people who will become pregnant actually become pregnant. We're now past that point, but insurance requires us to do 6. So my period on schedule was actually a relief because it brings us closer to finishing these IUI cycles. FX that these nothing funky on my baseline sono today and that I can start Clomid tonight for the last time!
-Sugar
@funkykey thinking of you today and good luck! Also, I wanted to thank you for the spreadsheet that you do. It's so nice to see how everyone's doing and gives me some hope when I see those BFP's coming in!
AFM, trying to think of anything else for distraction until HPT on 2/7. Ugh...I'm not very patient.
@funkykey yeah, I learned fast that birth month timing doesn't work. I'm happy with any birth month now after 18 months of nothing. The thought of IVF has me actually really hopeful now and feeling like I did those first couple months when I thought I could actually plan things. Need to adjust expectations again.
I'm glad you get to go in tomorrow and that you can make short term plans now
IUI #2 (Feb 2017) = TBD
Dx = MFI, Low Progesterone
@funkykey - did you have your IUI today??? Thank you soooo much for the spreadsheet - it's really helpful (I'm a super visual person).
@SugarHead - I'm so sorry. How many IUI's have you done now? I hope your sono was good and you can move forward.
@megs4484 - Welcome! I hope this IUI was just what you needed! Keep us posted!
Me - I realize the ridiculousness of it, but I can't help but think of timing. Like, if this IUI worked, it would be really wonderful timing for me work-wise. I could transition my end of year project to someone else and come back and start fresh. But obviously, I would take a BFP any way, any time I could get it.
~EDD Nov 18, 2017 with my IUI success story~
[spoiler]
Married 10/12
DS 11/14
Ectopic 2/16
PCOS/Ovulation Dysfunction 11/16
IUI x 3- BFN
Laparoscopy 3/17 Endo and tubal damage
IVF- 4/17- 40 eggs retrieved, 10 blasts, 7 pgs tested embryos
FET- 6/17- BFP!
Due Feb 15, 2017
@brooklyngirl18 I got a BFN the morning of my beta. Go in for the beta!
Me: 40 DH: 38
TTC since November 2012
Elias (Eli) born 9/2/17 at 7:07pm weight 8lbs 10oz and 20.5 inches long!!
@bluejeanbabi05 thank you, that's comforting.
Married 10/12
DS 11/14
Ectopic 2/16
PCOS/Ovulation Dysfunction 11/16
IUI x 3- BFN
Laparoscopy 3/17 Endo and tubal damage
IVF- 4/17- 40 eggs retrieved, 10 blasts, 7 pgs tested embryos
FET- 6/17- BFP!
Due Feb 15, 2017