by molinari0527 » Mon Aug 24, 2015 9:14 am
Hey ladies!
I'm kind of new to this site in some respects. When going through my tww with my first IUI I spent a lot of time reading everyone's symptoms and even posted some of my own. Sadly, that ended in a BFN and I was sure that I would never put myself through it again. But as we all know, the desire to have a baby doesn't just go away that easily and so as time passed I became more and more on board with continuing our journey.
Back story- DH had a vasectomy at a young age after divorcing (against his doctors recommendations). So now that we are married I get to suffer from those choices. Gee, thanks!! I have DD from a previous relationship, she is 7 and wonderful! DD so desperately wants to be a big sister! So DH and I really want to add to our family here and it has been too many years since his vasectomy for the odds to be in our favor. And it is SO expensive to have a reversal. RE said if we wanted to go that route we could retrieve his sperm and my eggs and move to IVF. The costs were just astronomical! It really was much more economical to just use donor sperm and do IUI.
So we did IUI in March and got a BFN. Donor numbers were so amazing and I took Femara with this cycle too, so I was expecting it to work. I know now that it is not abnormal to have several cycles with no luck, even when all of the numbers are good.
Moving on to IUI #2 in September. RE said this time around he will put me on Clomid instead of Femara and will monitor this cycle and we will do a trigger shot. This time around I am taking a bunch of extra vitamins in addition to my prenatal. I am taking Vitamin B6, D3, CoQ10, Calcium, Magnesium, DHA, Folic Acid. I am going to start on Red Raspberry Leaf tea as of today. My RE also suggested I look into acupuncture and prenatal yoga as a way to keep stress levels down.
I'm hoping to find some people waiting to do their IUI as well to ride this time out with, although I realize I'm super early to be looking for a buddy! Thanks for any advice and shared experiences!
DH & I have been ttc through IUI since February 2015 with donor sperm. We have DD who is 8 and anxiously waiting to be a big sister!
IUI#1- 2.5mg Femara- 3/08/15- BFN

9/2015 used Clomid 50mg CD 5-9. 3 ultrasounds later- no follicle growth

onto the next cycle!
IUI#2 Clomid 100mg CD 5-9, Trigger 10/26, IUI#2 10/28- BFN

IUI #3 Clomid 100mg CD 5-9, Trigger 11/27, IUI 11/29- BFN

IUI #4 Clomid 100mg CD5-9, Trigger 3/5, IUI 3/7- BFN
IUI #5 Femara 5mg CD5-9, Trigger 4/3, IUI 4/5- BFN
IUI #6 Femara 7.5mg CD5-9, Trigger 5/4, IUI 5/6- waiting...