April’s Adventures

That was the number of days my cycle was last month. Seriously? Shouldnt I have had 2 in that time? Well anyways heres a quick update on me….

Went to my ob for my annual and mentioned to her that my period is no where to be found. This was on day 51. She did a quick ultrasound and sure enough after 51 days my body finally produced something. Well basically she said lets hope this is it and sent me on my way. She said to call her in 2 weeks and let her know what happened. Well needless to say nothing happened and as she predicted my period came 14 days after that apt. Basically that is the only part of this that always happens. 14days after ovulation your period comes. Wow great at least 1 part of my cycle is normal. Ha!

Well anyways after talking with her and going over my history it seems like this is the one thing wrong and we have known that all along is my body just doesnt really ovulate in a timely manner each month. Apparently eventually it does but not in the “normal” sense. I voiced my concerns that I just dont feel we have tried everything yet b4 moving to IVF and after some talking we decided she would call my RE and see if he would be ok with my ob doing some cycles with me on just a basic fsh (follicle stimulating hormone) and see what happens. So for 3 cycles we are going to try this and then hopefully I will have closure on this phase and have some direction as to where we go next. So I’ll start meds today through tuesday. Take OPKs this month and hope for the best. Yes this is 5 million steps back but i really dont know that all that other crap was really necessary. I have had 2 pregnancies and both were on clomid. Never once on injections. So maybe the injections were producing empty follicles? Who knows but I hope and pray that something this simple will finally work out. She is actually putting me on femara. This is something similar to clomid but is actually rated as a cancer drug. Its kind of a long story but basically it isnt fully approved by the makers but some fertility docs are using it and it has shown some success. Plus from what I can find the miscarriage rate is lower so far and we just still arent clear if the clomid was it?  If this month doesnt work she’ll do some monitoring and I have a left over Ovidrel in the fridge that we’ll use.

So that’s kinda of my long awaited update. We decided to take a month off which ended up being over 2 months and now we are going to try this. January marks 4 years that I have been off birth control. I am really dreading it being here but know we have to move on at that point. I know we are young but 4 years is a long time no matter what your age. Oh and my birthday is this month. ICK. Just another reminder that I would have finally been a mom if either of my little ones had made it. Ugh. Please pray that this would finally be IT!