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BFP with God and IUI!!!

Posted on Mon, 03/04/2013 - 14:01

I am so happy to finally post my BFP story! My husband and I have been trying for 3 years to get pregnant. I am 33 with no issues and my DH is 49 with a low count. This was our 2nd IUI. We got pregnant with my first IUI in Sept. 2012 but miscarried at 6 or 7 weeks. I ovulate on my own but my RE felt that the more eggs the better the chances since my DH's count is off a bit. Keep in mind the first time we got pregnant I only had one egg and my DH's washed count was 1.5 million. I took 7.5 Letrozole CD3-7. I triggered with Ovidril on CD 10 at 9:15 pm and had 4 follies measuring 17, 19, 19, 21 and DH's washed count was 4 million. We had to trigger a day earlier than he wanted because my DH would be out of town. We had the IUI at 9:10 am CD12. Below are my symptoms:

1 DPIUI- woke up gassy and had pulling on both sides
2 DPIUI- gassy, slight cramping on left side
3 DPIUI- headache, cramping on and off
4 DPIUI- headache
5 DPIUI- nothing
6 DPIUI- light AF cramping, light headache
7 DPIUI- nothing
8 DPIUI- Feel like AF is coming. Woke up with a sore throat
9 DPIUI- Feel like AF is still coming, woke up gassy, tested BFN
10 DPIUI- Thought AF was coming
11 DPIUI- still cramping, gassy, having a hard time sleeping, testing BFP!!!!!!!!!!!!!
12 DPIUI- gassy, sore boobs on and off, headache, hard time sleeping
13 DPIUI- cramping, tummy ache, hard time sleeping
14 DPIUI- cramping and pulling on and off, lower back ache, light pink spotting once on tp only once, slept like a baby
15 DPIUI- cramping, Beta HCG 159, Progesterone 40 and I do not take supplements. I go back in 3 days to check HCG again.

We are super excited and so thankful that God has blessed us yet again! We're staying prayerful that this will be our little bundle or bundles of joy. With my husband's low count our RE wanted us to go straight to IVF but we insisted on trying the IUI first and was successful both times. Keep your faith and stand your ground when you know what is right for you!

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Submitted by Manelli on Tue, 03/05/2013 - 01:46

Hi,

I'm also very new to this and it was my first month of Fertomid together with Pre-seed and a lot of prayer going into this.

I had the following symptoms:

1 - 4 DPO : Bit gassy
5 - 7DPO: Cramping ovaries, under ribs and down cervix, little bit of nausea, Contipation and gassy, tender bb's on the side. Woke up hungry as well.
8 - 11DPO: BB's not that tender any more, just when pressed on the side. No nausea anymore.

Going to test on 14dpo and believe that it will be BFP as with God anything is possible:

I've never felt like this before, it is 4 days before AF should have arrived, but I usually had very sore BB's before my periods, but no cramping. Just while I had my periods I had cramping.

What do you think?

Submitted by Manelli on Tue, 03/05/2013 - 01:50

5 - 7 DPO had lots of cramps pulling. Vivid dreams now and then and lower back ache

Submitted by AK on Tue, 03/05/2013 - 09:01

Hi Manelli,

Like you said, with God all things are possible! I think you have a great chance based on your symptoms. For me, I usually have spotting 4-6 days before AF is due and didn't have any. That's how I knew.

Submitted by Manelli on Tue, 03/05/2013 - 09:19

Thank you so much for just commenting!

Submitted by Lindsay AG on Sun, 03/24/2013 - 18:16

This is great. Our stories and protocols are very similar. My husbands counts were barely over 5 million. It made me so discouraged after 3 IUI cycles. I'm 5 dpiui and am starting to feel hopeful. Congrats to you an your husband on your BFPs!!

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