No IVF in the Picture Yet.

We had a consult with Dr. McDreamy earlier this week and he has a new suggestion. He thinks that I should be pregnant by now. While the HSG we took last year was good he wants to do a laproscopy to look for endometriosis. While the thought of a laproscopy doesn’t necessarily appeal to me,  if there is something in there that is keeping me from getting pregnant it could also (likely) effect the IVF. So…it doesn’t make sense to do the IVF until we are sure and then not straight to IVF. McDreamy says that if we find something and then treat it he’d like to go back to the medicated IUIs for a few cycles. So, I suppose in a way this is good news, right?

CD1

So it’s cycle day one and I’m feeling a bit better than I was a couple of days ago. The hormone havoc has also caused a migraine. We have another consult scheduled with Dr. McDreamy on the 22nd. Just a quick update because of the headache.

4?!?!

Who gets a fucking four? I do I guess. My HcG was a 4 which as you have guessed by now means that I am not pregnant. So unless Dr. McDreamy comes up with something different our next step is IVF. We may have to start selling blood (and anything else we have) in order to afford it.

14 dpo!

No period yet (but I’m on Prometrium). Beta is scheduled for tomorrow. I am driving over to the main lab to have blood drawn there so I don’t have to wait for my doc’s office to send the blood over. Avoided taking the POAS test this time

13 dpo and still hanging in there!

Only 2 days until our beta. The wait is driving me nuts. Two drug me to a Home and Garden show today (in the big city) to take my mind off of the ever maddening wait. The show was a little disappointing, but a day out was a good distraction. Maybe I’ll take her to the movies tomorrow.

11 dpo and ducking and dodging

At 11 dpo and 3 days out from my beta I feel like I have dodged a bullet every time I go to the bathroom.

Come on Monday!

10 dpo and going nuts!

This cycle has been an even more difficult wait. This is probably because we have pretty much decided that our next step will be IVF if we get another BFN. I go back and forth between wondering if I’m experiencing pregnancy symptoms and wondering if Aunt Flo has come (the Prometrium “inserts” accounts for that).

So the BIG question is: Will taking a POAS test on Sunday give me a false positive? Keep in mind that I took a second HcG shot last Friday morning.

5 days to go (9 dpo)

5 days to go before our beta. Feeling some side effects from the hormones (don’t want to hope that it’s more than that) still having crampy reproductive bits (but that too is probably from the 2nd HcG shot…I hope). Yesterday I was hungry non-stop and the slice of pizza that I had for lunch made me kinda queesy (a side effect that I have had from Prometrium before). I have had no caffiene AT ALL since the IUI, not even the one beverage a day that I was allowing myself.

Trying to stay positive.