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Trouble TTC
theholmanherd
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OPP Tuesday *babies, pg, kids mentioned*
theholmanherd
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in Trouble TTC
OPPs are why I'm happy my uncle is the only family I will see this holiday seasons because he doesn't have and never wanted kids. It's a nice break.
Love 2010 | Marriage 2011 | TTC #1 since 2012
PCOS | Anovulatory | Metformin + Letrozole
PCOS | Anovulatory | Metformin + Letrozole
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Re: OPP Tuesday *babies, pg, kids mentioned*
So sorry @BunnyBerry! Some people can be so insensitive without even realizing it. Although, your person is made all the worse by the fact that you tried to explain the insensitivity and she got offended, jeez!
This isn't an OPP, but it's the best place I can think to put this. Every year since DH and I moved in together we've done a holiday card. We don't take holiday pictures, just use ones of us and the animals from the past year. The other night DH asked me if we were doing a card this year and I said no. He was shocked and wanted to know why, to which I responded that I just didn't feel like it (with tears in my eyes, of course). The thing is, after last year's card I got so many remarks/questions from family and friends about how next year they expect to see something other than our animals on the card, or when we'll be adding kids to the cards...it was fine last year because we had just started TTC, but now...I can't take another year of the questions and hints. So, no card from us.
Such a silly thing, but it makes me so upset thinking about how I have to go out of my way to shield myself from this stuff.
@LLM100811 I can totally empathize. I'm helping my friend this Saturday for her baby shower. :::Hugs in advance:::
AFM, my very very good friend who is the sweetest person I know asked me to help her create a candy station for her baby shower on Saturday. I agreed because right now I'm in a good place with IF and it makes me happy doing something special for someone who deserves it. She was going to a RE for Endo and hasn't flaunted her pregnancy, it just felt right. Originally, I wasn't even planning on going to the shower. Now, I'm mentally preparing myself for the questions from our other friends/acquaintances who don't know about our IF.
TTC since 10/2010 (Rhythm method since 2007)
September 2014 DX Hashimoto's; November 2014: PCOS IR
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DH (37) Sept 2012 SA Normal; October 2014 Mild MFI count 42 Million, Motility 36%, Morphology 2%. Clomid 50mg,
2004 Cyrosurgery, LEEP
July 2012 - October 2012 - Clomid 50mg W/ TI & Progesterone 3 mature follicles- BFN
January 2013 IUI #1 (900,000 post wash) Clomid 50mg, TI & Progesterone 2 mature follicles - BFN
February 2013 IUI #2 (1.3 Mil post wash) Clomid 50mg, TI & Progesterone 4 mature follicles - BFN
March 2013 IUI #1-3 (2.5 mil post wash) Clomid 50mg, Baby Aspirin (lining thinned) TI & Progesterone - 2 mature follicles BFN
April 2013 Benched due to cyst, May 2013 WTF appointment
June 2013 DH SA mild MFI break for 2 months to re-test; August 2013 - DH SA 36 Mil count, 36% Motility, Morp 2%
September - December 2013 - Mental sanity Break
January 2014 - IUI #4 switches to natural due to scheduling conflict Femara TI & Progesterone - 1 mature follicle - BFN
May 2014-June 2014 - DH Appointment w/ Urologist to check Bi-lateral Varicocele; 2nd opinion w/ another urologist - bi-lateral varicocele dx is slight no surgery
July 2014 DH starts clomid 25mg daily SA 53.8 Mil count, Motility 37%, Morph 3%;
September 2014 DH Repeat SA after being on clomid for 3 months 42 Mil Count, Motility 36%, Morph 2%
October 2014 Me: Hashimoto's DX, DH taken off clomid;November 2014 Me: new RE PCOS IR Diagnosis
December 2014: IUI #4 Follitism 75iu 7 days, TI, IUI & Progesterone, BFMFN
January 2015: IUI #5 Gonal-F 75iu 7 days, TI, IUI & Progesterone, Another BFMFN onto IUI #6
((HUGS)) @LLM100111 @triathlete23 it stinks that the holidays can make all this IF stress and aggravation so much worse.
@deelopi9 you're a really great friend! Good luck dealing with everyone this weekend.
Also @triathlete23 and @PeonyPop I totall agree about the whole Amber storyline. I love your description Peony! I have such a low tolerance for all the "oops" pregnancies that occur on TV/movies/books. They always make getting pregnant seem so easy!
I don't watch the show, but every time I see a commercial for that show Jane the Virgin I want to throw something at my TV. I realize it's a telenova style show so it's totally over the top and ridiculous, but the whole "I was accidentally inseminated during what should have been a routine gyno visit and just happened to be o'ing at the time" premise is just too much.
Husband: 26 SA: normal
Me: 23 Low AMH and damaged ovaries due to chemotherapy.
No AF or O in 3 years. HSG showed a slight T shaped uterus.
High Risk OB 9/29- got the ok to get pregnant.
RE Appt: 10/28/ U/S showed follicles, but also small damaged ovaries.
B/W results CD0: all normal except low AMH at 1.3
Cycle 1-November (TI)- Femera 2.5mg, 2mg Estradoil, and Trigger=BFN
Cycle 2-December (TI)- Femera 2.5 mg ,4mg Estradoil, and Trigger= No O
Cycle 3-January (TI)- Femera 5 mg, 2mg Estradoil, and Trigger=
TTC 10/2013
RE Help from 10/2014-10/2016 (11 failed IUIs, a corrective surgery, and a donor embryo cycle)
9/2016-transferred two donor embies
BFP 9/29/26 EDD June 11
TTC 10/2013
RE Help from 10/2014-10/2016 (11 failed IUIs, a corrective surgery, and a donor embryo cycle)
9/2016-transferred two donor embies
BFP 9/29/26 EDD June 11
Anyway, my OPP is to standing in line at Starbucks and this lady behind me was going on and on about her stupid kids and about how's she planning on a third. I wanted to scream at her to shut up.
PCOS | Anovulatory | Metformin + Letrozole
Official diagnosis: Unexplained IF. I am 32. I have low ovarian reserve (low AMH), and poor egg quality. I've also been diagnosed with mild glandular developmental arrest (lining problems, detected with EFT).
We are using open ID donor sperm. IUIs #1-7=BFN. IVF September 2014 antagonist protocol, 8R,5M,3F, 5 day transfer of 1 morula = BFN. IVF#2 planned for January 2015 (antagonist protocol + HGH).
Me: 33, DH: 32
TTC: 2 years
Fertility blood tests all normal
Tilted uterus
3 day ultrasound 17 follicles
HSG: 11/13/13- tubes open
DH SA: SUPER sperm (145 million, 84% motility, 22% morphology)
All infection disease and immunity blood tests NORMAL
FIRST IUI May 2014: 100 mg Clomid days 5-9, third ultrasound CD 13 revealed four follicles 27, 24 and 20 and 13mm. Trigger shot May 28 with IUI May 29 and 30 (fingers crossed) - BFN started spotting 11DPO
IUI #2 B2B 6/23 and 6/24, three mature eggs and 130 million sperm! FX this is the month! BFN 7/8
3rd cycle benched due to cysts - TI with OPK tests - BFN
3rd mediated cycle: Clomid+Trigger+TI (three follies left side, one on right as usual....what the hell right ovary get it together and produce some damn follicles!) 7DPO progesterone level 43 with NO suppositories YAY for a natural strong ovulation. Beta canceled started spotting 13DPO - Third time is not a CHARM! 14 day cycle WTF! Everything looks normal - RE wants to start injectables next cycle so this cycle I'm benched
Officially benched until March....but still plan on trying the baking soda douche due to my excessive and thick CM
JANUARY SIGGY CHALLENGE...This is so me!
Love this man....he was so before his time in his thoughts and ideas about the world....been obsessed about him lately bringing it back to the early 90s.
Never thought I would like long hair....
Me: 33, DH: 32
TTC: 2 years
Fertility blood tests all normal
Tilted uterus
3 day ultrasound 17 follicles
HSG: 11/13/13- tubes open
DH SA: SUPER sperm (145 million, 84% motility, 22% morphology)
All infection disease and immunity blood tests NORMAL
FIRST IUI May 2014: 100 mg Clomid days 5-9, third ultrasound CD 13 revealed four follicles 27, 24 and 20 and 13mm. Trigger shot May 28 with IUI May 29 and 30 (fingers crossed) - BFN started spotting 11DPO
IUI #2 B2B 6/23 and 6/24, three mature eggs and 130 million sperm! FX this is the month! BFN 7/8
3rd cycle benched due to cysts - TI with OPK tests - BFN
3rd mediated cycle: Clomid+Trigger+TI (three follies left side, one on right as usual....what the hell right ovary get it together and produce some damn follicles!) 7DPO progesterone level 43 with NO suppositories YAY for a natural strong ovulation. Beta canceled started spotting 13DPO - Third time is not a CHARM! 14 day cycle WTF! Everything looks normal - RE wants to start injectables next cycle so this cycle I'm benched
Officially benched until March....but still plan on trying the baking soda douche due to my excessive and thick CM
JANUARY SIGGY CHALLENGE...This is so me!
Love this man....he was so before his time in his thoughts and ideas about the world....been obsessed about him lately bringing it back to the early 90s.
Never thought I would like long hair....
oMG I am so glad we have this today. I just ran an all day event with a colleague who works freelance so I don't see her often. She told me she is 9 weeks pregnant. Now, she just got married in June and we talked about TTC in September (she was worried she was traveling too much to get any timing and was just starting to TTC). I was happy for her (that seems to be our theme here) but really. First frikken try. I tried to stay light. I hope this doesn't go on too much longer it's getting harder every OPP.
Dreading the kid cards.
I feel like I have too many to post this week - I will keep it brief!
#1 - My BFF had a beautiful baby boy yesterday. I am happy for her and love him so much already, but on the way home from the hospital, I just felt like shit. And then I felt like shit even more for feeling like shit about it!
#2 - A woman I work with (who I didn't know was pregnant), was complaining in the lounge today about how she had to unbutton her pants. AT 5 MONTHS ALONG! Um, sometimes I have to unbutton my pants and I am not pg or even on medication yet!
#3 - One of my close friends is 36 weeks right now. She was the one who posted her announcement on FB, grinning with her DH in front of the Eiffel Tower and didn't tell me first. Anywho, she knows about our struggles and has been completely insensitive to them all along IMO. Well the cherry on top came yesterday (the day my BFF had her baby). After posting her "36 week selfie in the bathroom mirror" on FB AND Snapchat, she had to personally text it to me. Really? I saw it everywhere else. I don't need my own personal copy. I am a bitch, but I didn't even respond.
Sorry for the novel today girls. Back to my wine...
Started TTC: October 2012
CD3 bloodwork - slightly elevated estradiol (85)
HSG - one tube "a little slow to open" but overall a normal result
SA - normal
Official diagnosis at this point: Unexplained
Waiting until March-ish to seek treatment
12/30 - BFP!
Hugs ladies .... I read all of your posts with fascination as I feel I can relate in some way to most of them! I hate that we all have to face these things on a daily basis ... but I'm glad we have each other to vent to.
I have 2. Last Fri night we went to my in-laws house for dinner and to stay the night. They were so excited because they had our nephew (hubby's brother's 2 yr old) staying with them while his parents went on a 1 week vacation to Argentina. Our nephew is so cute I can't stand it. He can be fussy at times but he is just such a character. And he recognizes me and hubby now so it makes us feel closer to him. Well when it was time for him to go to bed he asked for "auntie" (me) to put him down. I was torn between really wanting to and thinking it'd be too hard. In the end I agreed to. The little monkey would NOT go to sleep! He kept whispering "Auntie here?" When I thought he was asleep and tried to slip out he threw his leg across me and "Nooo auntie! Here." He just made me melt ...I teared up in the dark and held him. He just has the most adorable little voice. Eventually my MIL came to relieve me and try putting him to bed. Now I keep thinking about him. He's just stolen my heart ....I'm in love. We've spent a lot more time with him in recent months (we usually don't see him as much because his parents are in Chicago).
And ....one of my BFF's is going through her 1st round of IUI next week. She's taking Clomid this week. She is 35 and was diagnosed with low ovarian reserve (based on her AMH). We both lean on each other since we are going through a similar phase in life and dealing with fertility issues. But sometimes I'm ashamed at my inner thoughts when it comes to her. I have a hard time seeing her as having a true fertility issue when she's been trying for 8 months (but logically I KNOW - she's AMA and diagnosed with low ovarian reserve ... so she has some hurdles). Also when I think about her IUI, I get so anxious. I brace myself to hear that her 1st IUI worked. And how shitty that will make me feel. It would be so wonderful for her if it actually ends up working her 1st try! And yet all I can think about is how much I would want to avoid her if she got her BFP.
Me 34 Him 33
May 2014 - Break cycle to repeat saline sonogram and re-group. Travel to Kauai 5/7-5/12 (Yay!!)
And I'm sorry about being lapped by your friend. That absolutely does sting, I know the feeling! It's like you're torn between being glad they didn't have the same struggles and frustrated at the unfairness of it. (((Hugs)))
Me 34 Him 33
May 2014 - Break cycle to repeat saline sonogram and re-group. Travel to Kauai 5/7-5/12 (Yay!!)