So I woke up this morning in a little bit of a panic. For some reason, I got super nervous about the trial transfer today... I am always the "prepare for the worst" type of person, so everything that could go wrong started tinkering around in my head.
I had to drink a ton of water and not go to the bathroom, so the trip there was quite fun! You need to have a full bladder for this procedure. The bladder pushes your uterus down and makes entering it a straight shot. Everything went fine! It was easy to pass (for them anyway), not so easy for me. It causes pretty bad cramps. And the doppler ultrasound was normal too! They were looking at the blood flow to my uterus to see if I might need accupuncture or something, but NOPE! It was all good! YAY us!
On a totally different note... I left the Dr's office to find a big crack across my windshield! I got home and measured it... it was 10 inches long, so it has to be replaced, not repaired. Great... more money down the drain.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
The Beginning
So I've been debating about starting a blog to document our journey of trying to have a child... I finally decided to start!
Bill and I got married in August of 2009. We started trying to get pregnant in August/September of 2010. We both assumed that this would be one of the easiest things for us to achieve... boy were we wrong. After a few months of trying...we used every method known to man... still no pregnancy. I can't tell you how many times I have peed on a stick. Every month was miserable for us. I was an emotional basket case. I went to see my doctor in May of 2011 and basically insisted that we start some investigation into why we weren't able to conceive. This started our roller coaster of life.
The first step was for my hormones to be checked, which all came back normal. Next was for me to have a "dye study." This is where a radiologist shoots dye into my uterus and watches it go up my fallopian tubes. However, it didn't go up my right side. This was the first time the words (well, initials) IVF were ever spoken to me. She gave me other options such as having it unblocked, retesting later to verify that it was really blocked, and of course, talking to my doctor regarding other options. I, of course, left there in tears and called my doctor immediately. He had not even gotten the official results yet.
The next step was for Bill to be tested. My doctor called me at work and gave me even more bad news. This was now the second time in vitro fertilization was suggested. He referred us over to Oregon Reproductive Medicine for assistance. Over the next few months, I can't tell you how many tests/labs/analysis' have been done on both of us. We still continued to try the old natural way, but still no success. We met with Dr. Hesla many times regarding our options. We didn't want to give up hope because Bill's numbers were improving. Many things were said to us regarding what the problem might be for us. Some of these things could lead to our children having severe problems and/or be unsurvivable, which obviously scared us both to death. We talked about adoption if any of the genetic possibilities came to be the issue... luckily they didn't. All of our genetic screening has been normal.
We finally went to see a urologist in December of 2011 because we weren't responding to the Clomid. The urologist wants to start Bill on TRT which will completely knock out our chances of conceiving, but he needs it for long term health issues, so we went in to see Dr. Hesla on January 5th to start our IVF process.
It has really been a roller coaster since then! We had our first class on January 12th, labs and ultrasound on January 17th (which showed I had 13 follicles on the right and 12 on the left!), second class on January 23rd, and now the trial transfer tomorrow!
Bill and I got married in August of 2009. We started trying to get pregnant in August/September of 2010. We both assumed that this would be one of the easiest things for us to achieve... boy were we wrong. After a few months of trying...we used every method known to man... still no pregnancy. I can't tell you how many times I have peed on a stick. Every month was miserable for us. I was an emotional basket case. I went to see my doctor in May of 2011 and basically insisted that we start some investigation into why we weren't able to conceive. This started our roller coaster of life.
The first step was for my hormones to be checked, which all came back normal. Next was for me to have a "dye study." This is where a radiologist shoots dye into my uterus and watches it go up my fallopian tubes. However, it didn't go up my right side. This was the first time the words (well, initials) IVF were ever spoken to me. She gave me other options such as having it unblocked, retesting later to verify that it was really blocked, and of course, talking to my doctor regarding other options. I, of course, left there in tears and called my doctor immediately. He had not even gotten the official results yet.
The next step was for Bill to be tested. My doctor called me at work and gave me even more bad news. This was now the second time in vitro fertilization was suggested. He referred us over to Oregon Reproductive Medicine for assistance. Over the next few months, I can't tell you how many tests/labs/analysis' have been done on both of us. We still continued to try the old natural way, but still no success. We met with Dr. Hesla many times regarding our options. We didn't want to give up hope because Bill's numbers were improving. Many things were said to us regarding what the problem might be for us. Some of these things could lead to our children having severe problems and/or be unsurvivable, which obviously scared us both to death. We talked about adoption if any of the genetic possibilities came to be the issue... luckily they didn't. All of our genetic screening has been normal.
We finally went to see a urologist in December of 2011 because we weren't responding to the Clomid. The urologist wants to start Bill on TRT which will completely knock out our chances of conceiving, but he needs it for long term health issues, so we went in to see Dr. Hesla on January 5th to start our IVF process.
It has really been a roller coaster since then! We had our first class on January 12th, labs and ultrasound on January 17th (which showed I had 13 follicles on the right and 12 on the left!), second class on January 23rd, and now the trial transfer tomorrow!
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