TTC thread take 2

[DisneyElite4]

Falltime, my heart aches for you and your husband reading your story. Please know that you have been missed and I have been thinking about you wondering how everything was going.

I believe your time is coming, too! Your blessing is just around the corner. I hope you have a wonderful summer and are able to relax before your next IVF.

 

[Kennywife]

Falltime and I'm sorry to hear that. I know all our times are coming!

I heard about my insurance. MRI will be OOP. Of course. The nurse is finding out how much it will be. If it is close to the same price or more than the surgery, I may just do the surgery. I am going to get something done. I'm finally ready.

I picked out a song I love that I plan to sing to my baby inside me when it does happen.

"Because You Loved Me" Celne Dion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CkKuA86Mis

 

[starann]

Ok. I'm back with news.

I am going to have an MRI to check my uterine structure.They have to check the septid and see how it dips,if that makes sense. If it is not too deep, it can be worked around and we maybe able to just start clomid and see what happens. If not, I may just have to have the surgery.

We have to wait on the insurance now. Oh that's fun.

I get my thyroid checked friday and then we wait.

She said that I am trying to ovulate every month and my body just needs help.

So, we are moving slowly in the right direction!

Oh...and we are candidates for IUI!!!!!!!!

One thing, I may have to get off Topamax (seizures) just to protect the baby. I'd rather do that anyway. Lamictal works better in my opinion. Or at least be on a smaller dose of Topamax. It's not a dangerous medicine, just questionable.

Just popping in to say that I am epileptic and have had 3 healthy boys in the last 8 years....all on Topamax (as well as some other non epilepsy meds). They watched me and babies very closely. My oldest has Aspergers, my middle has a patent foramen ovale (a small hole in the heart, but nothing serious), but it may or may not have been caused by the Topamax.

Good luck to you!

 

[ckret01]

Falltime.....my heart breaks for you and your husband. I am so sorry. I wish I could give you a hug

 

[cherbear]

Falltime...

So unfair. I'm glad that you are okay though and expected to make a full recovery.

 

[Kennywife]

 

[Kennywife]

Just popping in to say that I am epileptic and have had 3 healthy boys in the last 8 years....all on Topamax (as well as some other non epilepsy meds). They watched me and babies very closely. My oldest has Aspergers, my middle has a patent foramen ovale (a small hole in the heart, but nothing serious), but it may or may not have been caused by the Topamax.

Good luck to you!

Thank you. Very interesting to hear another epileptic's story. Congrats!

 

[Kennywife]

How are my TTC ladies doing this morning?

AF showed up. I'm not mad actually. I'm happy. It's the second month straight she's come! I'm watching to see if she begins a monthly visit. I'd willingly put up with her a few days monthly than a week or week and a half every three months!!!!!

 

[Falltime]

Thanks for all the comments ladies, it really means a lot to know I have a support group here. I went in last week to see where by hcg levels were and it was down to an 8 so when I go back in 2 weeks it should be back to zero. Also met with the lung doctor and my lungs are pretty much cleared up and he is tapering me off the steroids now even faster than planned so that is good as well and we should be right on schedule to start IVF in Aug with the retrieval and possibly transfer in Sept. We aren't sure whether to transfer any on the fresh cycle or not since I did that twice with no luck and just wait to do a frozen transfer. I guess it will depend on how many embryos we have and will decide then and get my Dr's advice too.

Hope everyone's week is off to a good start!

 

[Kennywife]

Falltime!!!!!!! Hoping all goes well for you!!!!!

 

[NEVERENOUGHWDW]

Falltime my prayers and thoughts are with you.

I am so very sorry

 

[WDWBride04/19/2010]

Well, D.H. has varicoceles. He went to a urologist and that's what he said, and his count is too low to do IUI, so IVF it is. We've also found out he has low testosterone, so now he's on Clomid. I'm basically just waiting until the 4th [or probably 5th, as I doubt the person (people?) who could answer this will be in] to make sure insurance went through, and then for I think the 14th for when everything will start. In between then we have to go to an orientation so I can learn (and D.H. just in case) how to inject the meds. Once baby is born, and it's okay for him to get the procedure (not surgery, but the other option) to fix the varicoceles, he will do that.

 

[mrsklamc]

Have you all read the book "Taking Charge of Your Fertility?" I'm SO surprised at some of the things in here I didn't know. (there's a lymph node you might be able to feel prior to ovulation?!?)

 

[si-am]

Have you all read the book "Taking Charge of Your Fertility?" I'm SO surprised at some of the things in here I didn't know. (there's a lymph node you might be able to feel prior to ovulation?!?)

Yeah, that is always the first book people suggest when you admit to having fertility problems.

I read it five years ago when I first started trying to conceive.

Didn't help. Not for me, anyway.

 

[mrsklamc]

Yeah, that is always the first book people suggest when you admit to having fertility problems.

I read it five years ago when I first started trying to conceive.

Didn't help. Not for me, anyway.

I'm sorry. I probably read about it here....was first diagnosed PCOS 3 years ago but was diagnosed with cancer at the same time so we've only been 'allowed' to try for six months.

 

[NEVERENOUGHWDW]

Hi All,

Still thinking of you all and sending baby dust (prayers).

I was so long in this cycle of disappointment I can't help but to check in.
It is so very hard, lonely and emotional.

The other day someone asked me when we would be buying a house (we live with my Mom in my childhood home) and I looked at the baby and said financially baby J was that $$$$. We would not have it any other way.
It certainly has it challenges but life is never perfect.

This "friend" asked why we just didn't give up after all those years. We had a "fabulous" life, trips, jewelry, cars, romance. I told her I looked for the Mommy button so I could shut it off many times but just couldn't find it.
What I told her was true. I wish my instinct wasn't so strong. I wish going to work all dressed up would make me thankful and complete. I wish I was thankful I could shop afterwards or have an expensive meal. The truth was that wasn't what my heart, mind and body processed as happiness.
It just wasn't how I was wired......

Hang in there and stay cool.

Maria

 

[WDWBride04/19/2010]

I told her I looked for the Mommy button so I could shut it off many times but just couldn't find it.
What I told her was true. I wish my instinct wasn't so strong. I wish going to work all dressed up would make me thankful and complete. I wish I was thankful I could shop afterwards or have an expensive meal. The truth was that wasn't what my heart, mind and body processed as happiness.
It just wasn't how I was wired......

I hear ya'. There have been times when I just wish I didn't want this so badly, or at least not right now maybe? but I can't change that
I don't care about new clothes or shopping, and while an expensive meal is nice every once in a while, I often don't feel comfortable in the places. I feel I'd much rather be at home with a baby.

 

[WDWBride04/19/2010]

I start Lupron on Friday.

 

[WDWBride04/19/2010]

For those of you who didn't tell immediate family you were trying until you were in the process of IVF, how did you tell them?

 

[Kennywife]

Hey everyone

I'm planning on having the MRI next month and going from there. I'm on day 30 of my cycle and I can feel AF coming....

However, if she comes this month.....that means I could be regulating myself and may not even need clomid!!!!! Big cry of happiness.

So what's going on around here? I hope good things will all happen soon for us.