10 dpiui

It's now 10 days since my IUI. I went for my weekly acupuncture this morning. While I was lying on the table, I got the weirdest cramp in my belly. After I was done with my treatment, I went to pee and I noticed I started spotting, bright pink. It is definitely too early to be my period. I am hoping the meds didn't mess up my cycle. I am secretly hoping this is just blood from my baby implanting itself. The spotting has stopped, so we'll see if it comes back. I know it means nothing...people bleed all the time at this point in their cycle, pregnant or not. But I think I would rather NOT be spotting. It just makes me a little nervous.

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I hate to wait!

Waiting is the worst...time went so fast the first two weeks and now the bottom half is just dragging! I found out my progesterone is looking good so I don't have to do any more shots! Acupuncture went well today. He used a needle in a fertility point near the tip of my middle finger (how perfect). I didn't feel the needle but about 10 minutes into it, my whole reproductive area got this heavy feeling and I fell asleep! The funniest thing about the acupuncture is that it is supposed to detox you and get things moving, and after I am done I always have to run to the bathroom and pee for a minute straight! That is how I know it is doing something...it drains me, literally!

Back to waiting...

Let the 2WW begin!

I had my IUIs done yesterday and today and it was a lot less traumatic than I had envisioned. It literally took 30 seconds. That, of course, is not counting the hour and half we waited yesterday and the two hours we waited today to be seen by the doctor. The good news is Gene's count seems to have gone up or at least the "boys" are healthier. I will attribute that to his giving up coffee, but in all honesty, it could be a million different factors. Right now I am all crampy and can pretty much guarantee I was ovulating today (in fact, it began exactly 36 hours from my Ovidrel shot, which is what the doctor told me would happen). So the timing couldn't be better.
I'll be back to the doctor on Monday to have my progesterone tested. If it is not high enough, I will have to do another shot. I'm curious to see what it is, because it's usually on the low side.
positive thoughts...

It's on!

Tomorrow and Friday I will have back-to-back inseminations. Bring on the turkey baster! My follicle is measuring 20 and my lining is 8. So everything looks good and I will trigger tonight at 8 pm. Something to be thankful for this Thanksgiving!
Beta will be on 12/11, the day before Gene's birthday getaway. I was thinking to cancel the trip to save some money but I really think if I get bad news on that Friday I will want to get out of here for the weekend, and if it is good news then we'll want to celebrate anyway. So the timing is good! :)

Converted to IUI

We have decided to move ahead with the IUI, since the IVF has been canceled. I think as long as my other 4 follicles don't start acting up in the next couple days, I will be ready to trigger (give myself a shot of ovidrel) ovulation and then do back-to-back inseminations on Thursday and Friday. I am hoping my uterine lining thickens in time, it is at 6 mm now and I think it needs to be at 8. My follicle was 17 mm today, shy 1 mm of being ready, which equates to $400 more I needed to spend to be monitored an additional day. Can my body be any slower?? Seriously...
So tomorrow morning I go back at 5:30 am, again. And HOPE to hear that the follie is 18 mm, my lining is at least 7 mm, and I can trigger Wed night. What I bet I will hear is, your follicle is still 17, lining is still 6, you need to buy another $400 worth of meds for the night, and then come back tomorrow at 5:30 am and spend another $400 on an ultrasound. It is insane the time and money that ONE cycle days adds on.

Will update tomorrow on my turkey baster status.

Cycle is cancelled

Again, I am too upset to cry. I think I just accept bad news as the norm these days. I have one "runaway" follicle as they call it. It is 16mm and the other 4 they can see are all less than 10, meaning they haven't grown at all. So there is no option to wait for the others to grow, because the one at 16 will be mature and ready to ovulate in a few days. I can't believe on this amount of meds I produced one egg. And to hear girls talk about their 20 eggs, 30 eggs, 40 eggs...makes me sick. I am going to see if we can convert this cycle to an IUI cycle. It isn't going to give us a 50% chance but it might at least boost it to 15%. I think the worst part is, I have no plan if IVF didn't work. I always have a plan! And now I just feel like I am lost wandering some unknown land.