Caught between a rock and a hard place

Brandon and I have now been trying to conceive for 26 months and have been taking medication for four months, with still no luck.  Two weeks ago I could feel my little selfish friend coming so I called our fertility doctor to find out what our next steps were going to be.  The nurse called me back at lunch and said Dr. Young wants to change your medication and wants to do IUI (intrauterine insemination). So I immediately asked them to call our insurance company to see if they cover it, the receptionist called me back and said no they don't and its $395 cash price. So I called Brandon and told him what I just found out.  So Brandon and I talked that night after work face to face and decided we wanted to try it. Thankfully I am working now and it's not as much of a financial strain, but we don't want to have to do it very many times.  I will be ovulating sometime around this weekend and our doctor has on call staff that will do it on a Saturday or Sunday.  I go in for a day 14 ultrasound on Friday to find out where my follicles are at and if they are good, they will schedule us for the procedure. We are both nervous about it because its a lot of money if it doesn't work and it has an increased risk of multiples, but we know that and are prepared for that. We could really use some prayers this week in anticipation for this.

I will update my blog on Friday when I find out what's going on.

New Update!

It's been a while since I updated but since I had an appointment at the fertility doctor today I thought I would update our progress.  I had the HSG x-ray two weeks ago and everything was normal.  That was the most painful experience I have had in a long time and that includes breaking my foot in four places, the cramping was so bad, but the good news was my tubes were open and my uterus is normal.  They did say at the x-ray for some reason that when this is done, it clears anything out that might be in there and they used the alliteration it's like the flood gates opening up, and said that pregnancy can occur after it.  Then I had an ultrasound on that Thursday and they told me that I was ovulating from the right side, so the meds did work!  Then today I hate a progesterone test to see if I did actually ovulate and I did.  My level was at 38, and it needed to be above 7, so that is really good.

Hope everyone has a great week!

Fertility Update

Hi All!

I am updating you all on the fertility front.  My doctor put me on birth control pills so that I could finally have a period and it worked.  So that means I can now start the Chlomid (the medicine that will make me ovulate and possibly have multiples), today will be my first dose of Chlomid.  Next week on Tuesday I have to get an HSG x-ray, which I am nervous about because they said that you could have really bad cramps during it.  Basically what they do is shoot some blue dye up my hoo haw to make sure that there isn't any blockage any where.

I will update you all after my x-ray if I find anything else out.

Tori