My First Post!

I've gone back and forth a lot recently about making a blog. Mainly because I don't think anything I have to say is so interesting that it warrants an entire blog but I think it will help me with my frustrations with infertility.

That's right, I'm infertile-- or so says my medical diagnosis. J and I have been on quite a journey so far and I can only hope and pray that the journey will soon result in a pregnancy. I figure I should give a little bit of background info and then see where this thing takes me.

Let's see.... J and I met the day I moved into my college dorm freshman year. He was helping my new room mate move in. Over the months and years we became really good friends and after almost 4 years of friendship we started dating. We got engaged in July 2006 and married June 16, 2007. It was one of the happiest days of my lives and I would relive it over and over if I could (just the day, not the planning!). We decided before getting married that we would wait at least 2 years before starting to have kids.

I went off birth control in August of 2008 so that my cycle would be "regulated" before we started to try. I also had a feeling that it wasn't going to be so simple so I wanted to figure out what was going on with my body. I went on birth control at 19 because my periods were extremely irregular. My gyn at the time said birth control would fix that and never mentioned that it could be a problem in the future. So, it wasn't very surprising when I went off the pill and didn't get my period again for 6 months. I actually called my gyn after about 3 months and asked if it was normal but was reassured that since I had just gone off the pill, it was. After another 3 months (6 month mark) I scheduled an appointment with my gyn to figure out what was going on with my cycle and also have a "preconception" visit. She told me that I probably was ovulating but just not getting a regular period. She said I was still young so there's tons of time. She prescribed provera to induce my period and her advice for J and I was to try, and try A LOT. Not exactly what I wanted to hear since I had a sinking feeling that it wasn't going to be that simple.

After a summer of trying and trying and not getting my period again since taking provera I made an appointment with a new gyn for my yearly exam. Over the summer I had started charting so I'd have "ammo" to go into the appointment with and prove to the doctors that I wasn't ovulating. Luckily, I didn't even have to bring it out. The new gyn listened to my concerns, ordered a bunch of bloodwork and did an ultrasound. Based on the b/w results and ultrasound I had classic PCOS symptoms. EEEK. He prescribed me clomid in November and said if I'm not pregnant at the end of the month to call him and we'll try again. After taking the clomid, researching it more, and not getting pregnant, I made an appointment with an RE. In December J and I met with the RE to get our full medical history, more bloodwork, an HSG and SA for J. In January we started my first monitored cycle of clomid, ovidrel and progesterone suppositories. Negative in January.

RE gave me 2 weeks of birth control to take in between the next cycle so I didn't get to try again until March. This time it was 100mg clomid, ovidrel and progesterone. Again negative. In April we were going to try 50 mg clomid, ovidrel and progesterone with a possibility of bravelle to boost the follicles. I went in on day 9 and had 1 good follicle and was already starting to ovulate so my first IUI was scheduled for the next day. I was so excited and thought "this is it!" but at 12dpo I got a negative hpt and at 14dpo I got a negative beta.

So after alllll that, we're up to now. I'm on CD2 today and go in tomorrow for my first monitoring appt of the cycle. I'm praying that it's all clear and if so I'll start 50mg clomid tomorrow night.

I guess that's it for now. I have a lot more to say but I can save that for tomorrow or another day:) Thanks for reading!