IUI #3 is a bust
Well,
We did our third IUI this month and today I got AF. I was expecting it as I had absolutely no symptoms whatsoever of pregnancy and I didn't even take a HPT, which I usually can't wait to do. My breasts didn't even hurt on the progesterone this month. At this point it almost just feels like I'm gong through the motions. Unfortunately my pharmacy messed up my prescription delivery and never sent me my ovidril so that was a little screwy. I know I ovulated because my acupuncturist convinced me to take my temps this month, which was a little hard at first, but I am getting more into it now that I've been doing it for 3 weeks. It was nice to see my temp jump and know it happened, but it may be that I actually ovulated before the IUI and even though we were doing the baby dance as well it obviously didn't work. I'm hoping that the issue is my poor lining because i am doing some things to try to remedy that.
I'm thinking maybe this month I'm going to ask the doctor if we can do an unmedicated IUI. We never did one of those and I feel like the meds I'm on are speeding up the first half of my cycle and causing me to ovulate earlier than I would normally and it isn't giving my lining a chance to catch up. This month the girl couldn't even "find" my uterus on the u/s so I don't know what it was, but I'm guessing it was the same as the months before.
Either way, this is my last month of working with the RE because my great health insurance is up at the end of the year and I don't want to do IVF, but I do want to try something new.
I guess in the end it is starting to be hard for me to get excited and hopeful every month when it always ends in a BFN and for no good reason they can find. Open cervix + good CM + great swimmers + normal ovulation (minus thin lining) should = baby, but apparently not. Maybe if I can fix this lining thing we can figure out how to do this the natural way. I think I'm going to insist on a post coital antibody test this month. May as well right?
UGH, so tired of this.
We did our third IUI this month and today I got AF. I was expecting it as I had absolutely no symptoms whatsoever of pregnancy and I didn't even take a HPT, which I usually can't wait to do. My breasts didn't even hurt on the progesterone this month. At this point it almost just feels like I'm gong through the motions. Unfortunately my pharmacy messed up my prescription delivery and never sent me my ovidril so that was a little screwy. I know I ovulated because my acupuncturist convinced me to take my temps this month, which was a little hard at first, but I am getting more into it now that I've been doing it for 3 weeks. It was nice to see my temp jump and know it happened, but it may be that I actually ovulated before the IUI and even though we were doing the baby dance as well it obviously didn't work. I'm hoping that the issue is my poor lining because i am doing some things to try to remedy that.
I'm thinking maybe this month I'm going to ask the doctor if we can do an unmedicated IUI. We never did one of those and I feel like the meds I'm on are speeding up the first half of my cycle and causing me to ovulate earlier than I would normally and it isn't giving my lining a chance to catch up. This month the girl couldn't even "find" my uterus on the u/s so I don't know what it was, but I'm guessing it was the same as the months before.
Either way, this is my last month of working with the RE because my great health insurance is up at the end of the year and I don't want to do IVF, but I do want to try something new.
I guess in the end it is starting to be hard for me to get excited and hopeful every month when it always ends in a BFN and for no good reason they can find. Open cervix + good CM + great swimmers + normal ovulation (minus thin lining) should = baby, but apparently not. Maybe if I can fix this lining thing we can figure out how to do this the natural way. I think I'm going to insist on a post coital antibody test this month. May as well right?
UGH, so tired of this.
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I\'m sorry friend. I can feel how frustrated and disappointed you are. Thinking about you.
Sorry about the BFN. Are you on clomid or injectables? I found clomid made my lining really thing. If you are just doing orals, ask about femara. My lining loved it compared to clomid.
I did Letrozole (femara) once, and then twice with letrozole and gonal-f. This month I am doing some estrogen suppositories before ovulation without any other meds plus acupuncture and other natural stuff and I am hoping that will help, but I guess we\'ll see.