Thanks. Hubby is being amazing just like last time. He's pretty much been amazing throughout this whole thing.
Even he seems more upset than last time. We had decided we couldn't afford to pay for another out of pocket IUI if this didn't work out. So we were really happy when we got that positive on the pregnancy test.
But he was saying yesterday I should call BCN and find out how much is left in my lifetime maximum limit for speciality drugs.
So I think he's saying eff it and we should give it another shot.
Our other options would be to wait until October, when work would let me enroll in a different healthcare plan and I can pick one with more fertility coverage. Of course that would mean waiting until January to try again.
Something I'm considering is something a lot of women on the AS support group have tried is taking a vitamin called vitex.
We've established that I can ovulate if they give me drugs to do so. Though I don't seem to respond terribly well to everything they have tried. Though they were pretty conservative with the injections they gave me and probably should have had me on a higher dose.
Vitex supposedly would help to regulate my hormones but in a natural way, so that I would be able to ovulate on my own without the aid of drugs. So I would take that and we could try naturally on our own.
I guess this is stuff I would all need to talk to the doctor about too and see how receptive she is to it.
Although I'm not expecting her to agree to that. I expect what she'll tell me is that my best chance of success is to attempt another round of the injections while we've got my body working this way.
I think I would be interested at least in us doing at least one cycle on our own and having them give me a mid-cycle u/s to see what my follicles look like without drugs.
We actually didn't think the IUI would take because I ovulated a lot earlier than they expected and at the time they asked me to take my trigger shots, my largest follicle was a 14 and for a successful IUI they would like to see one closer to 18mm or 20mm.
So I half wonder if this really was doomed from the start because while the egg did indeed get fertilized, it wasn't mature enough for this pregnancy to ever be viable.
I basically ovulated early, because I ovulated on my own, which they didn't expect because I normally don't. Funnily enough I also ovulated on my own the previous month.
All stuff I'll have to hash out with the doctor I guess.
Even he seems more upset than last time. We had decided we couldn't afford to pay for another out of pocket IUI if this didn't work out. So we were really happy when we got that positive on the pregnancy test.
But he was saying yesterday I should call BCN and find out how much is left in my lifetime maximum limit for speciality drugs.
So I think he's saying eff it and we should give it another shot.
Our other options would be to wait until October, when work would let me enroll in a different healthcare plan and I can pick one with more fertility coverage. Of course that would mean waiting until January to try again.
Something I'm considering is something a lot of women on the AS support group have tried is taking a vitamin called vitex.
We've established that I can ovulate if they give me drugs to do so. Though I don't seem to respond terribly well to everything they have tried. Though they were pretty conservative with the injections they gave me and probably should have had me on a higher dose.
Vitex supposedly would help to regulate my hormones but in a natural way, so that I would be able to ovulate on my own without the aid of drugs. So I would take that and we could try naturally on our own.
I guess this is stuff I would all need to talk to the doctor about too and see how receptive she is to it.
Although I'm not expecting her to agree to that. I expect what she'll tell me is that my best chance of success is to attempt another round of the injections while we've got my body working this way.
I think I would be interested at least in us doing at least one cycle on our own and having them give me a mid-cycle u/s to see what my follicles look like without drugs.
We actually didn't think the IUI would take because I ovulated a lot earlier than they expected and at the time they asked me to take my trigger shots, my largest follicle was a 14 and for a successful IUI they would like to see one closer to 18mm or 20mm.
So I half wonder if this really was doomed from the start because while the egg did indeed get fertilized, it wasn't mature enough for this pregnancy to ever be viable.
I basically ovulated early, because I ovulated on my own, which they didn't expect because I normally don't. Funnily enough I also ovulated on my own the previous month.
All stuff I'll have to hash out with the doctor I guess.
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