Archive for the ‘IUI#4’ Category
Let the Two Week Wait Begin
Posted by: Paige on: March 13, 2008
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12.06 million post-wash motile! Woohoo! That is our best ever. I’m so excited and hopeful. I prayed and we visualized the sperm fertilizing the egg as I lay for the requisite 10 minutes post IUI.
I really really hope we get pregnant. But, if not, I hope we have an answer regarding the IVF before [...]
LH Surge (or how I hate Ovulation Predictor Kits)
Posted by: Paige on: March 12, 2008
If I never see pink lines again it would be too soon. It seems a cruel twist of fate that the one thing infertile women want to see…2 pink lines…can be so hard to discern on an OPK.
For those of you who don’t know 2 pink lines on a pregnancy test means YOU”RE PREGNANT. On [...]
Fine Print
Posted by: Paige on: March 11, 2008
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You know the quickly spoken blurb of side effects that pharaceutical commericals have to have? I always thought they were the result of an accidental hypochondriac getting thrown into the clinical trials.
I was wrong.
In fact, a small percentage of people just WILL get those effects. I did – all of them – on clomid. Here [...]
Clomid Challenge! and IUI #4 Protocol
Posted by: Paige on: March 1, 2008
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This month is my Clomophene Challenge (‘Clomid’ for a the namebrand). Clomophene Citrate is a drug that stimulates a woman’s ovaries to ovulate. It is often a first step of fertility treatment for women who are anovulatory. In my case they are using it to test my “ovarian reserve.” Basically, they took my estrogen and [...]
The Difference a Year Makes…oh, and CD1
Posted by: Paige on: February 28, 2008
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I feel so blessed now by my rock-bottom landing and bounce back. Not only has it given me back my long-lost and much needed faith in God but it has had many other blessings.
One is a wonderfully renewed marriage. More about that later.
I am amazed to find I feel no jealousy toward mothers or pregnant [...]
