Introduction and my journey so far

allula

Hello, Introducing myself, I have PCOS and my husband and I have been trying to conceive since 2014, we started our fertility journey in 2019, did all the testing, and had an appointment set up to review results in March of 2020, then COVID hit. Our fertility clinic cancelled all appointments because they didn't know how COVID affected pregnancy and they thought it would be unethical to help people get pregnant at that point in time. They wouldn't give us our results over the phone so we were just left not knowing. As circumstance would have it I ended up transferring jobs and moving states away before they started seeing patients again. We just restarted our journey at the end of 2022 with a new clinic. It took quite some time for us to get our records from our previous clinic (having to eventually threaten legal action). Some tests had to be redone due to the time gap. It has been very frustrating because every time we think we are at the point where we are done with the "testing" phase and are getting to the "planning and doing" phase there is yet another thing that comes up.

First the whole COVID and move thing.
Then the issues with getting my records.
My A1C came back a little elevated so they wanted me to go to a maternal fetal medicine doctor before we could move forward to make sure everything was well controlled. Since then I have brought my A1C down through diet and exercise to an acceptable range.
Then I had polyps and scar tissue in my uterus that needed to be removed. So we did that.
They found in my records that I have some family cardiac history so they want me to get an echocardiogram. And of course the earliest one I can get is a month and a half away.

I understand this is all to give us the best chances, but I keep getting so excited to move forward and then keep getting disappointed when there is yet another road block. I am 36 years old and my husband is in his late 40s, I feel like we are running out of time.

Hopefully once the echocardiogram gets done we can move forward. We briefly talked about the plan of trying medication (letrozole) first to help stimulate egg maturation and ovulation because while I have plenty of eggs they aren't maturing and releasing (sorry if this is the wrong terminology, I'm paraphrasing). We were given the option of jumping into IVF due to age and the amount of time we have been trying, but I can't justify the cost without at least trying the medication/timed intercourse route first.

So that is where we are at in our journey, I just wanted to find a place to share and get support as I don't have anyone personally I can really share with. Thank you for listening : )