Thank you!!! I am looking forward to telling you guys all about it too!!! But first I have to go back into work again today.... booo... But I am grateful we have crossed this hurdle in part due to the insurance coverage from this job, so I won't complain! o:) *typo
So happy to hear some good news for you @BusinessWife
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!
@BusinessWife soo freaking happy for you guys!!! This is the best news ever.. can't wait to hear all the details. Congrats .. you deserve some good news for a change ❤️
My insurance company is owned by the hospital system I work for (which has to be totally illegal because they are basically profiting from their employees) and we have really good IF coverage. I have a deductible I have to meet each year of $1850 and after I hit that all IF testing and treatment is covered 100% with a lifetime max of $25,000 for treatment and $10,000 for meds. I agree with others that I think it really just depends on the type of plan your employer picks.
TTC History
Me: 35 DH: 34 Married 07/2012 DD born 07/2014 DD2 born 10/2018 DS born 10/2022
IF history: TTC #2 since January 2016 June-Aug 2017: 3 IUIs w/Clomid = BFN Sept 2017: Dx w/Endometriosis Oct 2017: IUI w/Letrozole = BFN Nov 2017: IUI w/Letrozole = BFN Dec 2017: pre-IVF testing Jan-Feb 2018: IVF--17 eggs retrieved, 13 fertilized, 9 frozen and 1 transferred on 2/10 = BFP on 2/19!!! EDD 10/29/2018 FET Oct 2021: BFP on 10/31! MC at 5 weeks FET Feb 2022: BFP on 2/15! EDD 10/29/22
Okay, I'm home from work now, it's CD2 and my headache is much better. :) so I'll try to give you guys more details about our big day yesterday!!!
So my day started about 4AM so we could leave by 5 or 5:15AM to get to the lab for 5:45/6 and pick up the media for his sample, and then proceed to the surgical center for 6:30 where they perform the procedure itself, scheduled for 7:30. DH couldn't have his usual coffee (nothing by mouth after midnight) so I was up, letting the dogs out etc. doing various things (but NOT bringing him a coffee). When his alarm went off at 4:30, I got in the shower. He finally got up like - AFTER 5!!! WTH! But he showered quickly and we were pretty much ready to go at not SUCH a bad time,
...until he flips out like, "why is the porch light on!" (I had turned it back on bc it was dark before, but I guess I should have shut it back off for the day.) I go inside and shut it off. Then he says, "we need to leave the window open for the dogs!" There were other windows open but THIS ONE needed to be open. So they could escape. If there were a fire. While he's having his surgery. And the attic light is on, (it's been on for weeks mind you to deter the bats, since we can't do anything about them till fall), and, "what kind of dog-parent am I???" etc etc. So this is the first reason, @AlohaKumu, that I think your dream was hilarious. Bc stalling much???
Okay so we get on our way... of course when I get to the lab, we are already running late, and it takes several minutes to go over all the paperwork, consents, initial a bazillion labels etc. I have the cooler with me in the elevator as DH calls me from the fire lane, telling me, "we gotta go!" Lol So we're driving to the surgical center, and of course, there's some kind of roadwork causing a huge delay, and we end up having to take some totally circuitous detour of sneaky back roads just to get there for 7AM. i.e. 30 minutes late. Ugh.
But it was fine. They got him in and prepped, we saw the doctor briefly, a kiss for luck and he was taken back! At 7:35, so not even that late, thank goodness. I had brought my makeup with me to do before work and distract myself while he was in there. So since AF came right then and there, (and of course since I was so worried about <i>his</i> whole thing, that I neglected to stick a tampon in my purse!!), and the CVS next door didn't open till 8AM, I killed 15 minutes doing my makeup in their ladies' room, went to CVS, came back, checked in with a few people on my phone... and just when I was starting to look for my journal or my next distraction...
There was the Tech! And he told me they found sperm! I said, "That was fast!" (The doctor had said 45 min - 2 hours, "depending on how hard H made him work," lol and it was more or less an hour, I think.) He said that while they did find sperm, the doctor asked him to tell us that his tubes were not reconstructible. So there's that. :/ No spontaneous pregnancies in our future, unfortunately.
But SPERM!!! So I managed not to burst into actual tears right there in the waiting room, until I was at least in the "privacy" of the parking lot. Pulled myself together and drove over to the lab. Then I cried <i>again</i> when I handed them off to the Andrology Dept girl! Lol. She said, "That was fast!" And I told her, "that's what <i>I</i> said!!" Lol. She was really nice and that was so comforting on such a stressful morning.
Then I had to get in the truck and drive back to the surgical center. My planned cutesie reveal was a little anti-climactic bc they had already told him it worked, and he was just behind a curtain getting dressed in like a little cubicle type thing so... I mean it is what it is. Lol. He did tell me later that night that the reveal gift was cute - little baby shoes, in honour of a silly song we made up that we have long-since stopped singing... about little baby shoes. So. ;) will be nice to start having that HOPE sprouting up around here again.
So whatever, we're driving home when - long story short - HE FORGOT HIS DISCHARGE PAPERS!!! @Alohakumu You are some kind of psychic!!! Lol I did get off the highway and stop for a few minutes to decide what to do. We decided it would make it too crazy for time to get me to work if we went back, so he has been suffering without his vicodins or whatever bc they also can't call in narcotics anymore. We'll see if we are going to bother filling it on Monday or what, but anyway he's been a trooper! Definitely sore today, and trying to do too much, as is to be expected, I suppose. Plus I had to work again today, which was lame, but we're all home relaxing now. :)
They were already calling me to schedule my repeat saline sono when I arrived back at the surgical center to collect H, and I got a call from the doctor saying the samples looked so good, she isn't going to ask us to get donor backup!!!! That feels like a freaking MIRACLE in and of itself!
I go in for all the CD3 stuff tomorrow morning, and we are planning to start stimms with my next AF around August 15th. It's finally happening!!! It is such a relief to know we can move forward now. Such a long time coming, but it will be worth it in the end, once I see those two beautiful lines and we are KU!!! Hopefully very soon!!!
ETA oh! And we have a follow up in 2 weeks with the RU to find out more details about how the MESA/TESE parts went, respectively, and why specifically we aren't able to try a reconstruction. I guess that's about it for now!
Thank you so so much for all your love and support!!! It really means so much to me during what has been an incredibly scary and stressful time. ❤ <img alt="" src="https://us.v-cdn.net/5020794/uploads/editor/s5/m9rfbohgbow6.gif"> ETA *typos, punctuation
@BusinessWife yay!!! So excited for you guys! So glad to hear such a good report and that the stress of all this is now behind you!!! Also so glad that the excitement of TTC is back again after having so much patience.
@BusinessWife What a day for the two of you! (My dreams must have been picking up on those vibes in the universe. Ha ha!) I was thinking of you all this week and praying that the doc would find tons of sperm. I was OVERJOYED to get your update yesterday. I don't think I would be able to put off the crying like you were yesterday. (Seriously, if they find sperm for us, I'm going to be sobbing.)
I know my DH might be dragging his heels the morning of his procedure, too, so hopefully I can get my mind together and be sure everything is ready when it's time to go. Let me know if you have any psychic dreams. Ha ha!
It feels like we are sort of in this together as kindred spirits and learning along the way. I'm excited that we will get to do stims together, although our FET won't be until Sept at the earliest, since we are doing PGS.
Enjoy your time together today and bask in the happy glow of joy. ❤️
Me: 35 DH: 28 TTC since June 2016 Azoospermia diagnosis (zero count) Dec 2016 AZFc chromosome microdeletion discovery March 2017 Unsuccessful TESE for DH in August 2017 October 2017 IVF with donor sperm
29R, 24M, 16F, 2d5, 4d6 (6 embryos total) Only 3 could have PGS. 2/3 normal. 5 embies frozen 12/15/17 FET #1 (1 embryo)--CP 2/7/17 FET #2 (2 embryos)--BFN Chronic endometritis diagnosis May 2018
ERA Sept 2018--borderline receptive--12 more hours of progesterone Abnormal SIS Oct 2018 Repeat hysteroscopy Nov 1. Treated recurring endometritis. 12/4/18 FET #3 (2 embryos)--BFN Our journey has come to an end.
Yes! We are in the same boat @AlohaKumu we are doing PGS too, so earliest would be Sept FET as well!!! Tandem retrievals will be so exciting. I will ve sure to let you know if my dreams tell me anything.... and keep sending you all the good juju in the universe!!!! ❤❤❤
@BusinessWife This is such great news!!! Despite the early morning craziness, it sounds like this was such a wonderful day for the two of you. I've said it before- but.. you're always such a great support for everyone here and it is going to be so great to finally get to cheer you on!!!!
@BusinessWife Such great news!! So happy to hear everything went well despite the morning road bumps! So in two weeks with the RU, you will find out more about quality and counts? I wasn't sure how fast they would be able to tell you those results. I am really over the moon for you both!
32 years old (both H and I) Dating 7/2008 Married 7/2014 H Type I Diabetic TTC 1/2016
12/2016
mental break from TTC-NTNP
1/10/2017 initial appt with RE (all BW results WNL) 1/17/2017
SA DX Virtual Azoo (3 sperm 0%morph 0%motility) 1/18/2017
STP tubes clear 2/1/2017 initial appt with Urologist
2/15/2017 DX H Robertsonian Translocation H is on clomid and Theralogix Supplements 6/26/17 repeat SA: 47 sperm 0% morph 13% motility 7/26/17 IVF Consult, repeat SA (4 sperm) 8/21/17 Starting IVF cycle with Donor Sperm backup 9/1/17 ER ICSI PGS: only 2 donor embryos made it to freeze 9/13/17 Started cycle for IUI with donor and clomid 9/27/17 IUI canceled for overstim October Plan IUI with donor and low dose clomid
@BusinessWife I thought they would have that info pretty quickly! I'll be on pins and needles until then!
32 years old (both H and I) Dating 7/2008 Married 7/2014 H Type I Diabetic TTC 1/2016
12/2016
mental break from TTC-NTNP
1/10/2017 initial appt with RE (all BW results WNL) 1/17/2017
SA DX Virtual Azoo (3 sperm 0%morph 0%motility) 1/18/2017
STP tubes clear 2/1/2017 initial appt with Urologist
2/15/2017 DX H Robertsonian Translocation H is on clomid and Theralogix Supplements 6/26/17 repeat SA: 47 sperm 0% morph 13% motility 7/26/17 IVF Consult, repeat SA (4 sperm) 8/21/17 Starting IVF cycle with Donor Sperm backup 9/1/17 ER ICSI PGS: only 2 donor embryos made it to freeze 9/13/17 Started cycle for IUI with donor and clomid 9/27/17 IUI canceled for overstim October Plan IUI with donor and low dose clomid
@BusinessWife Holy shit!!! What a story! Thanks for sharing. You've been through the IF wringer, and it's such a joy to read that things went so well. I'm just thrilled for you. Legit happy tears. Yay!!!
Me: 45 OH: 42 Beloved SS: born 12/2011 TTC my bio #1/our #2 since January 2016 **TW** June 2016 had CP **end TW** August 2016 - dx with DOR Somewhere in here received recommendation to do IVF with donor eggs, elected not to; OH dx with Low T May 2017 - began freezing sperm June 2017 - OH began treatment for Low T July 2017 - began doing 1 IUI via a midwife and 1 at home insemination each cycle http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/6259ba July 2018 - exhausted frozen sperm, officially NTNP since OH is probably shooting blanks
Re: IF Treatment and Testing Check In Week of 7/17
"It's time to try defying gravity."
Married 6/11/16
TTC Since 6/2016
12/2016 RE appt; 1/2017 SA & HSG results - all normal
3/2017 Dx Hyperprolactinemia; 5/2017 Prolactin levels normal; 8/2017 Low Ovarian Reserve
8/2017 TTA for personal reasons; 10/2017 NTNP; 12/2017 Re-start TTC
7/2018 Clomid+IUI
11/2018 Letrozole+TI
12/2018 Letrozole+IUI
2/2019 NTNP
5/2019 Stopping all TTC efforts; living Childfree
*typo
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!
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My insurance company is owned by the hospital system I work for (which has to be totally illegal because they are basically profiting from their employees) and we have really good IF coverage. I have a deductible I have to meet each year of $1850 and after I hit that all IF testing and treatment is covered 100% with a lifetime max of $25,000 for treatment and $10,000 for meds. I agree with others that I think it really just depends on the type of plan your employer picks.
Married 07/2012
DD born 07/2014
DD2 born 10/2018
DS born 10/2022
IF history:
TTC #2 since January 2016
June-Aug 2017: 3 IUIs w/Clomid = BFN
Sept 2017: Dx w/Endometriosis
Oct 2017: IUI w/Letrozole = BFN
Nov 2017: IUI w/Letrozole = BFN
Dec 2017: pre-IVF testing
Jan-Feb 2018: IVF--17 eggs retrieved, 13 fertilized, 9 frozen and 1 transferred on 2/10 = BFP on 2/19!!! EDD 10/29/2018
FET Oct 2021: BFP on 10/31! MC at 5 weeks
FET Feb 2022: BFP on 2/15! EDD 10/29/22
So my day started about 4AM so we could leave by 5 or 5:15AM to get to the lab for 5:45/6 and pick up the media for his sample, and then proceed to the surgical center for 6:30 where they perform the procedure itself, scheduled for 7:30. DH couldn't have his usual coffee (nothing by mouth after midnight) so I was up, letting the dogs out etc. doing various things (but NOT bringing him a coffee). When his alarm went off at 4:30, I got in the shower. He finally got up like - AFTER 5!!! WTH! But he showered quickly and we were pretty much ready to go at not SUCH a bad time,
...until he flips out like, "why is the porch light on!" (I had turned it back on bc it was dark before, but I guess I should have shut it back off for the day.) I go inside and shut it off. Then he says, "we need to leave the window open for the dogs!" There were other windows open but THIS ONE needed to be open. So they could escape. If there were a fire. While he's having his surgery. And the attic light is on, (it's been on for weeks mind you to deter the bats, since we can't do anything about them till fall), and, "what kind of dog-parent am I???" etc etc. So this is the first reason, @AlohaKumu, that I think your dream was hilarious. Bc stalling much???
Okay so we get on our way... of course when I get to the lab, we are already running late, and it takes several minutes to go over all the paperwork, consents, initial a bazillion labels etc. I have the cooler with me in the elevator as DH calls me from the fire lane, telling me, "we gotta go!" Lol So we're driving to the surgical center, and of course, there's some kind of roadwork causing a huge delay, and we end up having to take some totally circuitous detour of sneaky back roads just to get there for 7AM. i.e. 30 minutes late. Ugh.
But it was fine. They got him in and prepped, we saw the doctor briefly, a kiss for luck and he was taken back! At 7:35, so not even that late, thank goodness. I had brought my makeup with me to do before work and distract myself while he was in there. So since AF came right then and there, (and of course since I was so worried about <i>his</i> whole thing, that I neglected to stick a tampon in my purse!!), and the CVS next door didn't open till 8AM, I killed 15 minutes doing my makeup in their ladies' room, went to CVS, came back, checked in with a few people on my phone... and just when I was starting to look for my journal or my next distraction...
There was the Tech! And he told me they found sperm! I said, "That was fast!" (The doctor had said 45 min - 2 hours, "depending on how hard H made him work," lol and it was more or less an hour, I think.) He said that while they did find sperm, the doctor asked him to tell us that his tubes were not reconstructible. So there's that. :/ No spontaneous pregnancies in our future, unfortunately.
But SPERM!!! So I managed not to burst into actual tears right there in the waiting room, until I was at least in the "privacy" of the parking lot. Pulled myself together and drove over to the lab. Then I cried <i>again</i> when I handed them off to the Andrology Dept girl! Lol. She said, "That was fast!" And I told her, "that's what <i>I</i> said!!" Lol. She was really nice and that was so comforting on such a stressful morning.
Then I had to get in the truck and drive back to the surgical center. My planned cutesie reveal was a little anti-climactic bc they had already told him it worked, and he was just behind a curtain getting dressed in like a little cubicle type thing so... I mean it is what it is. Lol. He did tell me later that night that the reveal gift was cute - little baby shoes, in honour of a silly song we made up that we have long-since stopped singing... about little baby shoes. So. ;) will be nice to start having that HOPE sprouting up around here again.
So whatever, we're driving home when - long story short - HE FORGOT HIS DISCHARGE PAPERS!!! @Alohakumu You are some kind of psychic!!! Lol I did get off the highway and stop for a few minutes to decide what to do. We decided it would make it too crazy for time to get me to work if we went back, so he has been suffering without his vicodins or whatever bc they also can't call in narcotics anymore. We'll see if we are going to bother filling it on Monday or what, but anyway he's been a trooper! Definitely sore today, and trying to do too much, as is to be expected, I suppose. Plus I had to work again today, which was lame, but we're all home relaxing now. :)
They were already calling me to schedule my repeat saline sono when I arrived back at the surgical center to collect H, and I got a call from the doctor saying the samples looked so good, she isn't going to ask us to get donor backup!!!! That feels like a freaking MIRACLE in and of itself!
I go in for all the CD3 stuff tomorrow morning, and we are planning to start stimms with my next AF around August 15th. It's finally happening!!! It is such a relief to know we can move forward now. Such a long time coming, but it will be worth it in the end, once I see those two beautiful lines and we are KU!!! Hopefully very soon!!!
ETA oh! And we have a follow up in 2 weeks with the RU to find out more details about how the MESA/TESE parts went, respectively, and why specifically we aren't able to try a reconstruction. I guess that's about it for now!
Thank you so so much for all your love and support!!! It really means so much to me during what has been an incredibly scary and stressful time. ❤
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ETA *typos, punctuation
Crying for you @BusinessWife! Such amazing news. I am so so happy for you guys.
I know my DH might be dragging his heels the morning of his procedure, too, so hopefully I can get my mind together and be sure everything is ready when it's time to go. Let me know if you have any psychic dreams. Ha ha!
It feels like we are sort of in this together as kindred spirits and learning along the way. I'm excited that we will get to do stims together, although our FET won't be until Sept at the earliest, since we are doing PGS.
Enjoy your time together today and bask in the happy glow of joy. ❤️
TTC since June 2016
Azoospermia diagnosis (zero count) Dec 2016
AZFc chromosome microdeletion discovery March 2017
Unsuccessful TESE for DH in August 2017
October 2017 IVF with donor sperm
29R, 24M, 16F, 2d5, 4d6 (6 embryos total)
Only 3 could have PGS. 2/3 normal. 5 embies frozen
12/15/17 FET #1 (1 embryo)--CP
2/7/17 FET #2 (2 embryos)--BFN
Chronic endometritis diagnosis May 2018
ERA Sept 2018--borderline receptive--12 more hours of progesterone
Abnormal SIS Oct 2018
Repeat hysteroscopy Nov 1. Treated recurring endometritis.
12/4/18 FET #3 (2 embryos)--BFN
Our journey has come to an end.
@BusinessWife tears in my eyes for you and YH! So hopeful you will be ku in a few short months!
Dating 7/2008
Married 7/2014
H Type I Diabetic
TTC 1/2016
1/10/2017 initial appt with RE (all BW results WNL)
1/17/2017 SA DX Virtual Azoo (3 sperm 0%morph 0%motility)
1/18/2017 STP tubes clear
2/1/2017 initial appt with Urologist
2/15/2017 DX H Robertsonian Translocation
H is on clomid and Theralogix Supplements
6/26/17 repeat SA: 47 sperm 0% morph 13% motility
7/26/17 IVF Consult, repeat SA (4 sperm)
8/21/17 Starting IVF cycle with Donor Sperm backup
9/1/17 ER ICSI PGS: only 2 donor embryos made it to freeze
9/13/17 Started cycle for IUI with donor and clomid
9/27/17 IUI canceled for overstim
October Plan IUI with donor and low dose clomid
Dating since: 11/17/2001
Married: 9/26/2009
TTC: June 2016
EDD: 5/14/2018
Dating 7/2008
Married 7/2014
H Type I Diabetic
TTC 1/2016
1/10/2017 initial appt with RE (all BW results WNL)
1/17/2017 SA DX Virtual Azoo (3 sperm 0%morph 0%motility)
1/18/2017 STP tubes clear
2/1/2017 initial appt with Urologist
2/15/2017 DX H Robertsonian Translocation
H is on clomid and Theralogix Supplements
6/26/17 repeat SA: 47 sperm 0% morph 13% motility
7/26/17 IVF Consult, repeat SA (4 sperm)
8/21/17 Starting IVF cycle with Donor Sperm backup
9/1/17 ER ICSI PGS: only 2 donor embryos made it to freeze
9/13/17 Started cycle for IUI with donor and clomid
9/27/17 IUI canceled for overstim
October Plan IUI with donor and low dose clomid
Beloved SS: born 12/2011
TTC my bio #1/our #2 since January 2016
**TW** June 2016 had CP **end TW**
August 2016 - dx with DOR
Somewhere in here received recommendation to do IVF with donor eggs, elected not to; OH dx with Low T
May 2017 - began freezing sperm
June 2017 - OH began treatment for Low T
July 2017 - began doing 1 IUI via a midwife and 1 at home insemination each cycle
http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/6259ba
July 2018 - exhausted frozen sperm, officially NTNP since OH is probably shooting blanks