So, it’s 10:14 AM, and I’ve already had a horrible day. Here’s a recap: I went to the gym. Even though I’ve eaten ONLY fruits, vegetables, beans, yogurt, cottage cheese, nuts and protein supplement for 8 days — and not much of those, I’ve only lost about 5 pounds. I’ve also exercised for about 45 [...]
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Melissa and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Posted by eighteenyears on January 10, 2012
http://eighteenyears.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/melissa-and-the-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-day/
Cycle 20, CD 17, 3 (or 4) DPO, 5 DPT
My birthday is coming up this weekend. I’ll be the big 34, and that puts me one year closer to the sacred (or profane, perhaps) 35, when my fertility will be officially declining. I’m trying not to think about that too much. Plus, two of the blogs I follow just got a BFP (Yolk and [...]
Posted by eighteenyears on March 23, 2011
http://eighteenyears.wordpress.com/2011/03/23/cycle-20-cd-17-3-dpo-5-dpt/
Cycle 20, CD 15, 1 DPO(?), and 3 Days Past Trigger
So, here it is — 1 day past when I’ve decided to mark ovulation so that on April 1, I’ll be 12 DPO and 14 days past the trigger shot. Part of our instructions are to have intercourse (or as the nurse on the phone called it: time for us to “be together”) today. Well, [...]
Posted by eighteenyears on March 21, 2011
http://eighteenyears.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/cycle-20-cd-15-1-dpo-and-3-days-past-trigger/
Cycle 19, CD 11
Oh, what a beautiful morning, oh what a beautiful day! I’ve gotta a beautiful feeling, everything’s going my way! Well, not really, but it certainly is a beautiful day, and I’m taking the entire day, if I want to, to enjoy every single minute of it. Right now, I have all the blinds up, sunshine [...]
Posted by eighteenyears on February 27, 2011
http://eighteenyears.wordpress.com/2011/02/27/cycle-19-cd-11/
Cycle 19, CD 4, 10 Days before RE appt
So, as I have not bled, spotted, or cramped for the past 12 hours, I’m pretty sure I can say that all the craziness has subsided. As I type this, I wait for the lightning to strike my computer…. I have decided to not get an ultrasound done at all and count last week as [...]
Posted by eighteenyears on February 20, 2011
http://eighteenyears.wordpress.com/2011/02/20/cycle-19-cd-4-10-days-before-re-appt/
Cycle 18, CD 17, 5DPO, 2nd day of spotting!
So, I’m writing just to vent. I’m spotting for the second day today, just 5 days after when I guess I ovulated and only 17 days after my last period (and therefore about 9 days BEFORE my period is due). If I spot for 9 days, I’m going to be just plan annoyed. And, if [...]
Posted by eighteenyears on February 11, 2011
http://eighteenyears.wordpress.com/2011/02/11/cycle-18-cd-17-5dpo-2nd-day-of-spotting/
Cycle 18, CD 9, Day after HSG
So, I went for my HSG yesterday. The left tube was mostly blocked (“occluded” to the medical terminology minded folks out there). The right one is fine. This is not the official report, but it’s what the radiologist (not the tech, the actual radiologist) said during the procedure. The HSG was really no big deal [...]
Posted by eighteenyears on February 3, 2011
http://eighteenyears.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/cycle-18-cd-9-day-after-hsg/
Cycle 17, Somedays after O
So I had a moment of clarity, not in the AA or NA sense of that phrase though, the other day when I realized that I just need to write more, to just write and let it out and not censor or worry about how I’m feeling or how I think I should be feeling. [...]
Posted by eighteenyears on January 15, 2011
http://eighteenyears.wordpress.com/2011/01/15/cycle-17-somedays-after-o/
Complete Nightmare
So, I went to the RE today. She ordered a bunch of tests, and said she expects we’ll have to go straight to IVF. I did not take this news well. I called my mom, who just babbled on about how it would all be okay. DH, of course, is still sick and was at [...]
Posted by eighteenyears on January 7, 2011
http://eighteenyears.wordpress.com/2011/01/07/complete-nightmare/
IComLeavWe
Faces of ALI
Cycle Countup
The Baby CountUp
Age 17 or 18: Because of the medicine I took for psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, thought I would never be able to have children.
Age 25: On new meds -- possibility of kids!
Age 29: Met DH
Age 32: DH and I decide to get married and have kids
Age 32: (Nov 2009) Stopped BC. Expect to get pregnant immediately
Age 33: (Jan 2011) Started seeing RE. Bunch of tests. SA for DH is great. I have blocked left tube because of a dermoid cyst removed when I was 22.
Age 34:
March 2011: First cycle of Clomid, Bravelle, Ovidrel + timed intercourse = BFN
April 2011: Second cycle of Clomid, Bravelle, Ovidrel + timed intercourse = BFN
May 2011: Third cycle of Clomid, Bravelle, Ovidrel + timed intercourse = BFN
June and July 2011: Off ART until IVF in August
August 2011: IVF/ICSI, 9 follicles, 5 eggs, 4 fertilized, 3 transferred on Aug 20. BFN
Sept 2011 - Oct 2011: Figuring out what's wrong with me.
Oct 2011: Dx with MTHFR (heterozygous) and blood clotting disorders. Set for 2nd IVF in Jan or Mar, depending on when I make up my mind to do it.
Dec 2011: OB/GYN says homocysteine levels are fine, but Vitamin D is low.
Feb 2012: Start taking BCP for the 2nd IVF in March.
Age 35: Now
March- April 2012: IVF/ICSI, 6 follicles, 3 mature eggs (5 eggs retrieved), 3 fertilized, 3 transferred BFNDecide no more ART.
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