Thursday, March 25, 2010

Feeling down, but trying to be hopefull...





So after getting a BFN last week I was down, then not so much and now a bit again...besides for obvious reasons =( I blame the hormones for the rollercoaster ride. I started Bravelle (injections) last saturday, one every morning (150mg) for six days. I'm wasn't crazy about giving my self the shot (in the belly), but every morning while preparing the injection I told my self that it was nothing compared to one day (soon hopefully) holding our lil miracle, might sound corny but totally true!


Tomorrow I go in for a follies check up. The RE told me that depending on how my follicles responded to the shot, I will or will not get more for this cycle. I'm really hoping they (follicles) responded good. Also hoping we can do our #2 IUI on March 31 (cd#14) and hope and pray to have more than one good follie...as well as good count/motility from DH.


I just saw on THEBUMP that several ladies @ the TTTC just got their BFP's =) I'm happy for them, some had being trying longer than we have. Some got their BFP's w/IUI's and one w/IVF. Reading about them gives me hope and encourages me to stay positive!

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Not much to say

just that IUI#1= fail...AF showed up today.
I was kinda expecting that, but part of me was still hoping. =(

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

It's over one week

since last time I posted. Several things have happened since then, the most important one was that we did our first (and hopefully only) IUI on March 2nd. The procedure was not as bad as I thought it was gonna be, and it took much less time than what I thought it would. The RE told me to test on 3/16, but to be honest I would rather test the day after AF is supposed to show, which is 3/18. I honestly hate seen a BFN a bit more than getting AF =(. However, if I have a good temp. on 3/16 I might do a HPT... so we'll see.
So far I haven't had any symtoms, except for tender breast, but then again I noticed I get that way about a wk after Femara. I'm trying to be positive, but at the same time I don't wanna get my hopes too high up.
On other "events" I woke up w/a nasty bad sore throat since monday (3/1) and it lasted almost the whole week. After that I got bad neck/shoulder pain from sat-sunday =(. So my week sucked, except for the IUI part =-/
Another thing that sucked about this week is that J. was supposed to start a new job this week, however, things didn't work out =(. Therefore he's still looking, and we are hoping that soon he'll find one...
The next 7 days of waiting will be long and I'll just have to keep my mind busy, just hope next week I can post some happy news =)

Monday, March 1, 2010

The good and the bad

So today was my cd#13 appt. the ultrasound showed one good size follicle (19.3) and a bunch of smaller ones (9's and 10's). The dr. mentioned that if we have go into another cycle it would be better to try something else than femara. I completely agree since we noticed that my follies don't seem to be responding so well to femara as in the begining. The first 3 months I took femara I was getting 2-3 good size follicles by ovulation time, today and last cycle I only got one (that barely made it to a good size). Another reason why I may have to start on other med. is that my lining is also not responding as much to femara, today my lining was 6.3 and even thought the dr. said anything above 6 is okay, doing research it seems that above 8 is better...
After all, I'm happy we get to move on and start IUI this cycle, and hopefully tomorrow around this time, we'll be finishing the procedure. =)