Any other DISers trying to concieve? Reread OP for the QOTD!

[FlyingBelle]

Hi All... I'm back.

It's been awhile... looks like there's a lot of folks I don't recognize!

A quick update on my story...

I was married before for 8 years, but my fertility issues were a catalyst in his affairs - which led to the end. I met a wonderful man and now DH & I have been married 2 years, we've been ttc right off the bat. DH is 41, I'll be 36 in a couple weeks. After the 1st year (hoping that the new hubby would provide the "missing link" to my infertility) we started going to the fertility clinic. 2 months of follistim/ovadrel/IUI/crinone... we got pregnant. Things started great, but they couldn't find the heartbeat at 6 weeks, and at 9 weeks the baby was still at the 6 week stage. Heartbroken, we stopped the crinone and I miscarried a week later.

It's been a couple months and we got the all-clear to try again. I started back on the same regimine last Wednesday. I'm having all those fun side effects from the shots again (bloating, acne, moodiness, etc). What fun! Tomorrow I'm going in for blood work and u/s.

DH & I having been talking about it for a long time. We're giving it another chance so we don't regret it later. I'm really nervous about having another miscarriage - it was the worst day of my life. I'm trying to just be cool this time... but it's hard!

Good luck to all of you! Here's hoping we're all moving on to a new thread soon!

 

[ImarriedGrumpy]

Well, I really didn't think we timed it right this month, and I was right. AF showed up this morning. I was pretty convinced this wasn't the month for us, but I couldn't help hoping in spite of all the signs against us that maybe some miracle happened and we'd get that BFP.

Tonight we had dinner with Dh's mom, one of Dh's sisters and her family, and another couple that are good friends of ours. They all know that we're TTC (thanks to DH telling everyone ). MIL and our friends do a lot of travelling, and we were discussing where DH and I might go for our annual spring trip. DH and I are thinking about going to somewhere in Europe, and as we're talking about it, MIL says "I thought we were getting a baby this spring!" Ugh! Just make it harder... I had to say "well, there will be no baby this spring," and MIL then says "Well, what about June?" So I had to say that June is out, and now so is July. DH almost informed everyone that my period had started today (he calls it my "exclamation point" ).

I didn't go into all the gory details, but I usually O between CD19 and CD28 (yep, I'm that irregular), so we've got almost 3 weeks before we get to try again. I'm mostly concerned about my luteal phase - I had one that was 13 days, but it's almost always only 10 days. My dr. doesn't quite believe me when I told her about it; she's pretty much in the "everyone's luteal phase is always 14 days" camp. But it's still only the 3rd month we've been TTC, so I guess we'll see. It might not be a problem, but if we don't get that BFP in the next 5 months I will SO be in her office with all my charts and demanding some answers.

 

[kellyf2626]

So AF came this morning. I kinda knew it was coming - I just didn't feel any different - no signs of being pg. So, next month will be month 5 of TTC. I know that 5 months is really not a long time...but I feel like it is FOREVER!! Good luck to all those in the 2WW - we need some BFP's around here!!

 

[helenabear]

Hi everyone! We made it back, but I didn't do much posting yesterday since we were still tired.

The sinus drip is still bugging me some, but I found that Benadryl D is working good for now. It's a bit of allergies so both work good. I've also been popping mints since that helps keep my mouth a bit less dry. I'd try honey, but I can't stand the stuff.

Disney in general was great. My doc said to try to avoid really jerky rides, so I did everything but the costers, Dinosaur and the Safari ride. Mission space was only the green version and less intense than my plane ride

Michelle, wishing you all the best with it this time. I really am hoping it works for you.

Lisa, best wishes as well. I hope you'll have a good result with the Beta on the 13th.

I am so smiling at the "shouting it out with a bullhorn" I guess there is no way I would have told my family. I don't like pressure. I don't like questions, and there would be no competition at all for that. I know my brother won't have kids and my sister won't for a few years yet. BIL isn't even married yet... so no real competition here My DH did slip up and mentioned it to his mom... his brother found out eventually and called and said "I heard you quit your job to have a baby" That is *exactly* the thing I wanted to avoid. Not al families are fun to deal with

Just to chime in with symptoms. In reality the only one I had was my chest was more sore than usual, but it is always sore when PMSing. I didn't think a thing of it when they did hurt. Nothing else. I really have most moments when I do not feel pregnant at all. The only real difference is I feel a lot more "moisture" than usual, but I'm told that has to do with hormones. Otherwise all other symptoms most have gotten really don't seem to be there with me. Nausea has been very mild at worst for me the whole time. And didn't even pop up until after I found out we were pregnant. I did have some cramping in the lower pelvic area. I still feel pulls there now and then, but they come and go and Tylenol wipes them out always. I also had some fatigue. I can't go as long/strong as I normally do, but that is also starting to let up.

Welcome FirstTimer... I love your name in your sig... well the nickname of Ma Ingalls What an amazing story you have! I wish you all the luck with it this time around!

Chip, I'm really shocked your doctor has you waiting that long to get tested. Mine says 6-12 months minimum and after 12 months definitely. And *never* heard of holding off to "build up soldiers" If you O a bit early you would miss it. Sounds like poor advice IMO.

A belated Happy Birthday to Kelly!!!!!!

Rebecca, I hope the blood tests tell you something!!

Kellyf, as I said before my doc suggested a minimum of 6 months of trying. She prefers to wait until 12 months but will do it starting 9 months of trying very willingly. 6-12 months is considered totally normal length of time for TTC. For us it was just about 10 months and I was totally devistated by that time. Then again, I have always had fairly regular cycles so she didn't feel the need to jump quickly with me.

FlyingBelle, I wish you all the luck with this!

Sorry for all those who didn't have any luck this month. I am sending lots of Baby Dust your way!

I'm also a bit shocked about the doc assuming everyone has a 14 day luteal phase. If that is the case why do they talk about the "defect" medically everywhere? Sometimes I swear I am blessed with a good doc.

And now I think I have caught up on everything I missed while out. If I did miss something, sorry

 

[LisaB]

Hi everyone I decided not to take the sales job. I work for a supermarket that does floral fruit and gormet basket delieveries and December is the crazy season. Kevin and I can make about 3K if we work our ***** off. They weren't willing to have me work after the holidays. I had this dream last night that I gave birth to quints all boys Carla was next to me giving birth to twins. But I was how could this happen when I only had two follicles. The funny thing was that the babies hatched but were normal. Carla's hatched also can't remember what she had though

 

[exwdwcm]

hi ladies- happy monday! Both Kelly's- sorry about AF. what a hag she is. i am wishing you all the best for your next cycle!

Skuttle- can't wait to hear your results, hoping for a BFP for you this week!

As for how long before seeking b/w or an RE. One year is the standard, but if you think you might have problems (irregular periods, painful pms), then i would seek help much sooner. all they can say is no. When i started seeing my ob/gyn 3 years ago, i told her that we were planning to start a family at some point and that i had concerns. I am irregular, have bad pms and had been off BC for 5 years and had no accidents. i mean NO BC, not even the 'pull out method'. you would think in 5 years, we would have gotten prego. we weren't 'trying' in that 5 years, but we weren't trying NOT to either. so about 18 months ago, i told her we were ready to move forward and actively try finally. we did bloodwork etc. we started by charting for a few months. the temp thing didn't work well for me and was all over the board. We then did 4 months on clomid and she monitored with an u/s each month. good follies. still nothing. did 2 SA for DH. Did the die test. okay. so after being with her for a good 8 months, i decided it was time for real help and sought out an RE through a friend's referral (top 10 RE's in the country in 05!). immediately dove in with the IUIs/clomid and did a lap. just express your concern if you think you will have problems. after 5 years w/ no BC, and no baby (even though not actively trying) i figured there was an issue. plus i am 33, so time is of issue.

well i did my third IUI on Friday, this time with injectables (follistim). did someone say acne is a SE of follistim? I have noticed i have some this week. weird! so i had 3 potential follies, plus a fourth that could have grown big enough. We didn't do a post IUI u/s like normal. i guess they assume on the shots, that all follies will ovulate. (in my past two cycles, not all did - 4 out of 7). anyways- so now in the 2WW. Today is CD15. i had the IUI on CD12. So now i gotta wait until at least the 17th (CD26, but 14 DPO) to test. i am not one of those that goes crazy testing. in fact i dread it, because i fear seeing the BFN. so i'll have to force myself. my RE doesn't do a beta right away, they tell us to test at home and then let them know and we go from there. i do have a progesterone test this friday though.

 

[ashjohnson80]

i'm having some serious lower back pain.

 

[DisneyDreamer8]

Well...that is that...the Hag made an appearance yesterday Doesn't she know she is not wanted around here...you'd think by now she would get the point.

Kelly-sorry about AF. Don't you just hate when your body throws you a curve ball.

I haven't heard from the Dr yet but I hope soon...will update when I know.

Has anyone known someone who got pregnant while actually on Clomid????


Have a great Monday!!!

 

[ImarriedGrumpy]

Has anyone known someone who got pregnant while actually on Clomid????

Yep! My SIL got preg on Clomid - and had twins! Her dr. said there's no way the Clomid was the cause of the twins, but SIL isn't convinced. My neices were born 6 weeks early, and they are now 3.5 months old. The bigger of the two has finally made it to 8 lbs., and she just slept 8 hours through the night for the first time. SIL is beyond excited about that! They also have a 3 1/2 yr. old DD, so life is a little crazy at their place. SIL is blaming it all on the Clomid! She keeps saying "I just wanted ONE more baby, not two!"

Meanwhile, my DH keeps saying that we should "make an offer" on one of the twins and save ourselves the trouble of TTC and "the whole pregnancy thing". Plus, he says that way he won't have to worry about MY family's genes mixed in with HIS, because "who knows what kind of craziness that would create"!! The funniest thing was at the last family gathering, SIL (DH's sister) was saying that if we'd asked when the twins were 3 weeks old and home from the hospital for the first time, she might have taken us up on it!

 

[Jen_in_NH]

Yep! My SIL got preg on Clomid - and had twins! Her dr. said there's no way the Clomid was the cause of the twins, but SIL isn't convinced. My neices were born 6 weeks early, and they are now 3.5 months old. The bigger of the two has finally made it to 8 lbs., and she just slept 8 hours through the night for the first time. SIL is beyond excited about that! They also have a 3 1/2 yr. old DD, so life is a little crazy at their place. SIL is blaming it all on the Clomid! She keeps saying "I just wanted ONE more baby, not two!"

Meanwhile, my DH keeps saying that we should "make an offer" on one of the twins and save ourselves the trouble of TTC and "the whole pregnancy thing". Plus, he says that way he won't have to worry about MY family's genes mixed in with HIS, because "who knows what kind of craziness that would create"!! The funniest thing was at the last family gathering, SIL (DH's sister) was saying that if we'd asked when the twins were 3 weeks old and home from the hospital for the first time, she might have taken us up on it!

Ooohh, twins would be fun!! Everything I read about Clomid when I was on it said that your odds of having twins was about 2.5x greater. I think it was 3% in the average population, and 8% with Clomid.

Michelle and Lisa - I hope the IUIs worked this time!!!!

Good luck to everyone!

Jen

 

[FlyingBelle]

Sounds like there were a lot of AF's in the last day - you guys must be cycling together, huh?


To answer a couple questions - 1) yep... my SIL got pg on Clomid twice - two healthy boys! The 2nd time she needed a little extra help with crinone to keep her progesterone levels up. 2) yep... follistim has messed with my hormones and brought on a lovely case of acne on my jawline. I've asked for the mineral makeup for my b-day to help cover up without layers of foundation. yuk.

I've got a an anoying bout of swollen ovaries today (nothing serious - I had my u/s today and everything's normal). It's just annoying!

Do you think our babies will ever realize how much they were wanted? I hope so.

 

[DisneyDreamer8]

well at least now i've heard of a few folks that had clomid success. I've been reading up on it a little more and I wouldn't mind twins it might be the only way we can have two children. I was reading that Clomid also increases your risk for ovarian cancer...this is a big problem for me because ovarian cancer runs in my family. If I'm honest with myself part of my stress is that I've been off BCP for too long. I was told my best chance to lower my risk is to stay on BCP for the rest of my life. Now I will be taking a drug that increases my risk I guess in the end it doesn't matter as long and my child is healthy and my dream of a family comes true.

 

[FlyingBelle]

well at least now i've heard of a few folks that had clomid success. I've been reading up on it a little more and I wouldn't mind twins it might be the only way we can have two children. I was reading that Clomid also increases your risk for ovarian cancer...this is a big problem for me because ovarian cancer runs in my family.

I did two rounds of clomid (3 months each at varying doses) and I was concerned about the increased risk of ovarian cancer... both my old RE, my OB, and my current RE said that there is still a lot of research to be done on this... the latest studies are showing that it's not linked. (However - I don't know the source of the study - sometimes drug companies pay for studies...)

As for twins... I think the "risk" of multiples with Clomid is about 3-5% with the majority being twins. Once you get into the injectables - it's more like 25-30% - which is why they usually monitor your follicles pretty often on the injectibles. (It's been while since I read the actual rates... someone please correct me if I'm wrong)

 

[ImarriedGrumpy]

I got a call from my "little" sister today (she's 6.5 yrs. younger than me and about 3 inches taller...), and she's been diagnosed with PCOS. She wanted me to know since the Dr. told her there's some hereditary link with it. I haven't had any symptoms or signs of it, so I'm not too worried about it, but if DH and I have problems then I'll know to bring it up with the Dr. Dsis & her DH have been TTC for several years now, and she's getting pretty frustrated. I think she was bummed that our DB & DSIL beat us both to the first grandkid!

Frankly, I don't think this is the best time for them - BIL is still finishing up grad school, and DSis has been the sole income provider for the last 3 years - but hey, we're not exactly close so I'm sure there are all kinds of factors that play into their decision that I'm not aware of. Anyway, at least she's got a diagnosis and can start to work with that in figuring out their fertility issues.

 

[LisaB]

I am so sorry for your sis I married Grumpy. As you can see I still can't get the i've been blessed to work. I went to my class reniunion this weekend and two of my classmates got pregnant with twins one injections she had 8 follicles and the other had 2 follicles. The latter one had pre ovarian faliure and then after her twins got pregnant on her own when they were 7 months

 

[skuttle]

Today is CD26 for me. When I was on BCP my cycle was 28 days, but since I've been off, I have noticed that it's closwer to 30 days, which is how it was before I even got on BCP. I took a test this morning...couldn't help it. It was a BFN. But, the test line was VERY dark, but I could hardly see the negative line. Not sure what that means. My DS woke me up at 4:30am to potty, and I went potty at the same time. I didn't test unil I woke up again at 6am and that's when I POAS, and it wasn't much. So maybe that's why the negative line was so light. I'll wait to test until CD30 unless AF shows up before then (I don't have any more tests so that shouldn't be too hard).

So what exactly does Clomid do? I've heard about it alot, but I don't really know what it does/is used for.

 

[mickeybar]

I haven't heard from the Dr yet but I hope soon...will update when I know.

Have you heard from your Dr yet?

 

[DMickey28]

Today is CD26 for me. When I was on BCP my cycle was 28 days, but since I've been off, I have noticed that it's closwer to 30 days, which is how it was before I even got on BCP. I took a test this morning...couldn't help it. It was a BFN. But, the test line was VERY dark, but I could hardly see the negative line. Not sure what that means. My DS woke me up at 4:30am to potty, and I went potty at the same time. I didn't test unil I woke up again at 6am and that's when I POAS, and it wasn't much. So maybe that's why the negative line was so light. I'll wait to test until CD30 unless AF shows up before then (I don't have any more tests so that shouldn't be too hard).

So what exactly does Clomid do? I've heard about it alot, but I don't really know what it does/is used for.

Hi

I was confused reading your post. You are talking about testing for PG right? Not an Ovulation test? What test are you using? I am confused by the negative line being faint. A negative result would be NO line, absolutly NO line within the first 3-5 minutes. Think Snow White color... On the Pregnancy test you have the test line that comes up regardless (unless the test is faulty) then you have the pregnancy line. If that pregnancy line comes up at all (even faint) within the first 3-5 minutes then it's considered a positive pregnancy test. If after 10 minutes a faint grayish line comes up then that could be an evap line and should be considered a negative result. I am confused why there was a faint negative line, unless it's a test I have never seen and trust me I think I have seen them all!!!! The mantra on all the TTC boards is with in the first 3-5 minutes on a pregnancy test.. a line is a line and is a positive test result.

Forgive me if I am confused and read the orginal post all wrong... it sounds like if this was a pregnancy test and there was any line within the time frame it was a positive test result. When I got my BFP it was at 3:30 on the day AF was due and I barely had a trickle of pee... but it should up PREGNANT on a digital right away. Everyone's system is different...

ETA: Ignore all this if you used a digital test and looked at the strip after you tested....

 

[CindyBeth]

I have a question for you all. I am older and so don't have a lot of time to wait for trying. About 2 months ago, they found 2 cysts one on each ovary and my dr. wanted to wait a couple of cycles to see if they are growing, shrinking or just hanging around. I am scheduled next week for the ultrasound and AF should come at the end of this week. My original ultrasound was just on the outside and the receptionist in scheduling this one, didn't know what kind and just decided on her own to make it a ******l ultrasound. We are finally getting to my question, sorry! I will be having this ******l ultrasound close to when I would ovaluate, will having this type of ultrasound so close to ovaluating effect my chances on getting pregnant? Should I call and switch it to the outside one?

Thanks!

 

[DMickey28]

Since the boards blocked out the words I am assuming I know what ultrasound you are talking about. I don't think it should interfer with O or your chances of getting pregnant. I would discuss it with the doctor to be sure but I don't imagine it would be any different that BD! If you know what I mean. I had one of those early in my pregnancy and it wasn't any different.... well, you know what I mean.