March Doctors App

Well...here we are on another new month on our journey. We had to wait until the doctor was back in the office last week to make the appointment and when Doug finally got ahold of them we had to book for yesterday. 

Wednesday March 23rd...our app was at 3:15..we arrived near 3pm and waited about until 3:25pm to get in. We knew we were just talking about the next steps since it would already be too late this cycle to do an IUI...due to the doctors holidays and it being past the time I would need to take anything. We waited in the one room and then got moved over into his office.


It was time to talk about what comes next. I have been trying clomide for quite awhile and its probably time to just switch fertility meds...since it is apparently not working. This month..I am just on Metformin...which ironically is when Doug and I were pregnant last time. The doctor asked me if he had spoken to us about me taking ASA aspirin 81g. This is something that they use for aspirin therapy for some ppl. I was reading up on it..and it apparently helps with thinning the blood..opening things up to happen. It can also help when you are taking other fertility drugs.

So this month I am just on metformin and now low dosage aspirin once a day. Who knows..this could work....right? So since I am only on Metformin and without any other fertility drug my cycle days could be as long as 40-50 days. I asked the doctor what he would like me to do..so we are not prolonging things. So I am to wait until around day 30 and get a beta-pregnancy test done and then take provera to force my period if it is negative and I still have not gotten my AF.

If we do not get prego this month we move on. New cycle..new fertility drug..called FEMARA. This is something that they apparently give breast cancer patients. It also is something they use as a fertility treatment. It is known to have less symptoms..some are the same as clomide. It has a better chance of a lower misscarriage rate..and less likely to make my uterine lining thin and not so dry.  It also helps balance my hormones a bit better. It aid the estrogen...helps boost my FSH and LH levels. We would be using the Femara while continuing to do the IUI procedure.

I asked about why the progesterone suppositories are making my cycle more prolonged...and the doctor told me the same thing..wait until day 30 and get a blood pregnancy test done and then stop taking the suppositories if it comes out negative. Alot of this is oh so confusing sometimes.

The most IUI's the doctor usually does is 6 before moving on to the next step which would be IVF. We can move on to injectibles if the Femara does not work. We are hoping to do most of these things in Peterborough before we have to go to TO. The doctor has informed us once we have gone so far here he wants us to go to TO for a second opinion. We are willing to try a million IUI's before moving to IVF. For IVF is $10,000 each try and it is not covered and not guarenteed. Atleast if we are doing the IUI's even if we have to move onto injectables it is only $125 for the procedure of the sperm washing..and whatever the drugs cost.

Doug Seems to hope and say this is the month. We will see...as of right now I am just being realistic..he is still trying to be super possitive..It is not that I do not want to be possitive ...I just do not want to hurt myself more..by getting my hopes up too much. The Doctor said if we get spontaneously pregnant this month that would be great. I also asked if I should be taking the suppositories if I get pregnant...he told me it would not hurt...but I do not necessarily need to take them...I might just take them to be safe and sure of my levels.

Here we are...in March....full of mysteries.