July IUI Cycle Group

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For the sake of any reading these threads in the future you can follow us to the August thread at August IUI Cycle Group

[BC-tysa]

HI Ladies,

I know everyone here has moved on to later months, and i know I just disappeared from here without updating, but trying to do that now. Sorry for that, I was absolutely devastated and felt unable to bring anything positive to the group.

So, as expected, July IUI was a bust. We had real disappointment from the drastic drop in sperm count as well as some of the follies O'ing early. When AF showed, we went into meet with RE and finally decided that we were going to have to do something else, due to age, expense and emotional toll. Basically, I could not go through another injectable cycle, at $2900 each (and suffer through the drug drama, it makes me CRAZY) when the RE was saying our chances with DH semen were sooo low. We decided we were probably going to go back to IVF (maybe going to do one more IUI), but would need to take a month to liquidate some funds and would start BCP's for IVF, or injectables for IUI at the next AF. So for August, we decided to do Clomid, mainly because I feel the need to DO something productive and didnt want to "waste" a month. Also, DH was supposed to meet with a different urologist to see if they could do anything for his count.

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We did the clomid, missed the O on OPK's (no idea how, cause I am a pee-stick-aholic) and to be honest, I thought I would maybe not O this month. But on day 19 I finally had ewcm (I also pay close attention to cervical position) and did BD. Really with no real hope of it working, seeing as how RE said less than 3% chance naturally with his morph. From there, we never paid it another thought. As it was the time where it should have been implanting I was running a back-hoe around our farm in 107 temps the whole weekend. DH laughs that it was the bumpy ride that bounced it into the lining. But anyway I had some nausea a few days later and DH said I must be PG, but I completely discounted him. Well Monday was cd 31(and about time to start BCP's for IVF) and 13 dpo. I tested and got a BFP on a digital. Yesterday (15 dpo) HCG was 104 and will be repeated tomorrow.

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The reason I felt the need to come back and share this story is so that those ladies out there with sever MF can see that it is not all hopeless. I completely felt as though it was myself and know that while others are so much more optimistic than I, some ladies feel like me.

**One other thing that was discussed was to help with any future IUI was to freeze a sample. That seemed like an ingenious idea to me, and was kinda disappointed that it never occurred to me. The point being that we would combine that with the fresh sample at IUI time and have a better chance. We did do that about 6 days before I O'd in August. That analysis showed a concentration of 2.9 mil/ml with 3.8 ml. 29% motility and 3% morph but they froze it anyway with the thought that it will still double the fresh sample for IUI later. You can imagine my surprise on Monday with those numbers.

Anyway, I hope everyone of you is doing well. I have been following the August and September groups to kind of keep up with everyone. My fingers are crossed for all of you. Your time is coming!!

Tysa

[Faithlove687]

TYSA- CONGRATS!!!!!! THAT IS SO AWESOME. THANKS FOR COMING BACK TO UPDATE US.

[SC-Impatient_in_VA]

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tysa Oh, that almost brought me to tears, I am SOOOO excited for you!

I hope that this pregnancy is wonderful and uneventful for you -- thank you for the update!

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