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Tuesday, March 31, 2015

And the verdict is...

Well another month is come and gone and all that can be said is our first medicated cycle was a bust. We were hoping for ovulation to occur around day 14 and I apparently have super lazy ovaries. They didn't get their act together till around day 24, which is too late because the lining gets too thick and you can't get pregnant anyways. So I called to set up my next round of monitoring appointments and the medical assistant called me back and says that since the medication didn't work we have two options, injectables or IVF. To say this threw me for a loop was putting it mildly.  I told her that I would call her back after I talked over with my husband but really I just needed to get off the phone before I started crying. I composed myself, talked it over with Jeff, and called the doctor back and told him that wasn't a plan for us. Here is the deal, injectables can cost anywhere from a grand or more per month and we just don't have that kind of money. IVF is like a last resort and each cycle at our clinic is about $12,000, if we didn't have a grand we certainly don't have 12. So to hear that these were only two options was kind of like saying you have no options.

I knew this couldn't be the truth. Why do you ask? Because I'm part of the fantastic group of women who are going through some of the same treatments and have been where I am. The online community I found has become more than just a support group, they are some of my best friends at all ever have! These ladies not only hold me up when life get hard but make me laugh and are some of the greatest women ever!  And from them I've learned that 5 mg is not the highest dose, I can do 7.5 and there's also a trigger shot to potentially help my ovaries get their act together and this would move up my O date. So armed with all my knowledge and refusing to take the answer the nurse gave me I called back and set up an appointment to speak with the doctor.
I went in for my monitoring appointment and I told him that I didn't want to do injectables or IVF, that I wanted to try a higher dose and a trigger if needed. He seemed surprised at first that I was even talking about injectables and when I told him what the nurse said, he said that she was wrong and she had misspoke. He felt that a higher dosage would be exactly what I would need and that we could go forward with that plan. I told him I sure hope he talks to talk to that nurse.

So now we are onto month two of the medicated cycle and fingers crossed that my ovaries get their act together. Otherwise we may be out of options and looking at super expensive treatments. 

Any prayer warriors-I could use your to prayers! Thanks in advance!