Next Steps

I haven't been feeling so great lately. This infertility thing is like a roller-coaster. Sometimes I'll feel good and positive, and other times I feel like giving up. This week was one of the giving-up times.

The good news is that I start on my fertility drugs next month. The bad news is that now that means that acupuncture and natural stuff didn't work. It's always hard to move on to the next step. I felt the same way before I got to surgery in December. But I guess there's no use putting it off anymore.

Part of the depression is also that my 30th Birthday is looming in the (near) future. I didn't realize how much it would effect me that I'm still not a mother at this point in my life.

Everything else is going well... school is busy as always. This semester is going by very quickly - before I know it I'll be a 3L. :)

Here goes nothing

I gave in. I'll be starting on Femara and HcG shots next month hopefully. I can't take it anymore. My heart is broken, I am tired... so tired of the ache to be a mother and the frustration of not being able to do anything to make it happen.

Why am I having to go through this?

Fertility drugs and such

I'm a generally impatient person... trying to get pregnant for over two years = pure torture.

We decided we are going to try for 4 cycles (once I get back to normal from the surgery) before getting on the medication.

My doctor wants to try 3-5 days of Femara and then one HcG shot on day 5. I did a bit of research today about Femara and a lot of women have had success. It supposedly will inhibit my estrogen, amp up my progesterone, and get my body to develop some of the follicles in my ovaries to release. Once that happens, the shot on day 5 will get my body to release the egg.

I'm hopeful... but worried about money and such. I'm going to try and get my taxes done quickly so that we can use the refund to pay for it. Here's to trying something new and hoping that it works...

I'm ready to be a momma!