Starting IVF

So today, the process has begun.

I went to the Fertility Clinic and had to wait for nearly 1.5 hours to be seen.  I didn't even have to have bloodwork or any ultrasounds done today.  But I'm glad I was there so late because I was able to see my Fertility doctor, who seems to have the magic touch.  When she does procedures on me, it doesn't seem to hurt as much (mind you, it STILL hurts, just not as much).

So today, she did an Endometrial biopsy, which is supposed to be done on Day 6, 12, and 21.  Today is Day 7 for me.  I couldn't do it yesterday because I was away for the weekend.  I had no idea why she was doing it.  At first I thought it was because she wanted to check my uterine lining to see whether implantation is do-able.  But nope, she was doing it to stimulate the lining for the next cycle in order to increase the chances of implantation.

I found this little article: http://fertilityblog.fertilitystories.com/2006/05/endometrial-biopsy-implantation.html

I ain't gonna lie, it hurt like a bugger.  It was more of a cramping pain, but it was still pain.  I had to keep deep breathing throughout the process.  Luckily she kept trying to distract me.

She's going away the last two weeks of June to an conference in Rome (nice!) so she said that if we aren't able to do the IVF until she returns, at least she'll be up-to-date on any new develops and she can report back to me.  In which case, I may need to take the BCP to manipulate my cycle a little.

And since she was down there, I asked her to take a swab for STIs because I've heard that chlamydia can be genetic, which apparently is another reason that some people have fertility issues.  They probably don't think of it because no one will believe they themselves have an STI when they've been faithful.  You just never know!

I'm debating whether to start acupunture again.  I think I need to stress manage more though...maybe I'll have to figure out some good meditation techniques instead.  That's already stressing me out...hahahaha...

HAPPY INFERTILITY AWARENESS WEEK!!!

So...I'm spotting...

I've done 2 treatments of IUI already and so this time around we're going to move on to IVF.  I had a talk with my gynecologist and she actually said that in her experience, all her friends who have had endometriosis, were unable to get pregnant without IVF.  Obviously that sounded like more of a personal, rather than professional experience.

It's going to be a month of testing first and then the procedure will probably happen in June...so here it goes!