Infertility Support Group
In vitro fertilization is one of the most common and utilized ways of treating conception problems. This support group is dedicated to those beginning their journey with IVF and needing support. Join the community and share your experiences, advice, and story with people going through similar challenges starting a family.
Hey ya'll! I am new to the group and I have really been needing people in my life that I can talk to who know what I'm going through. Here's my story, so my husband and I have been trying to conceive since last July 2016. After several months with no success my OB refered to a fertility doctor and I was diagnosed with PCOS and I was put on Metformin. My husband had his sperm analysis, I have had lots of other tests as well as the HCG test. After lots of anxiety both tests were normal and most of my hormone tests were normal. My period is starting soon and I will be taking femara as well as getting the HCG injection. I work on a Mother/Infant unit and see babies being born all the time. It's been really hard seeing babies all the time, I see drug addicts who pop babies out like crazy and people who don't even want their babies. I have wanted to be a mother more than anything and it's very difficult to understand why there are people in this world who get to have babies that don't even want them but I have to struggle. Anyway I'm feeling very anxious and have been praying like crazy that the femara and HCG injection will work. I am very lucky to have such a supporting and encouraging husband and he is always very positive. But I could really use some extra prayers!
I think our stories are fairly similar. I came off birth control in May 2016 and after months of my period getting more irregular rather than more regular (which was very strange since I had always been regular before birth control), I was diagnosed with PCOS. I've been seeing an RE since February 2017, have done 4 clomid + HCG cycles with IUI, and last month did Femara/Letrozole + HGC with IUI. No success yet...I'm on my last IUI cycle this month (which will be Femara + HCG). I'm told that success rates after 6 IUIs level off, so there's not much of a point in doing more than that, which means IVF will be the next step. I hope this month works for you and would be happy to connect to commiserate :-| Sending positive thoughts and prayers.
I also have PCOS (although some new Dr just told me this week "i don't think you have it"). Gotta love 100 different opinions.. anyway, i was on metformin and letrozol and had 2 rounds of IUI .. we're thisclose to deciding to do IVF which is something i always said i would never do... anyway, i don't have a lot of supportive things to say right now, but i am sending you good thoughts and strength to get thru this. xoxo