Thursday, April 23, 2015

What next?

When I first started trying to have a baby, I did not know that my journey would be this long.  How could I? I started trying to have a child when I was 31 years old.  Yes, 31.  I am healthy, I exercise, I am not overweight, as a matter of fact, I am a healthy 122lbs woman. I do not smoke, do drugs, and I only drink when I go out to dinner with my friends, about once a month. Now, here I am almost two years later (1 month short of two years), and I still do not have a baby.  So what's going on?  It is not because of lack of trying, my husband and I haven't stopped trying since we first started (with the exception of the two months following my surgery).  After my surgery, my gynecologist sent me to a fertility specialist. After reading my chart, the reproductive endocrinologist said that we could move on to IVF right away if we wanted to given our experience with our first pregnancy. I said no because I wasn't ready. At this point, it was April of 2014 and I was getting my menses every 36 days after not having them on my on after taking the pill. (By the way, doctors usually say that after you stop taking the pill your body will revert to whatever your cycle was before taking the pill. Not in my case, before I started taking the pill, I was regular and I did not go back to being regular until after 10 months of stopping the pills.)  His reasoning, was to decrease the chances of having an ectopic pregnancy, which we do not even know if that's what I had since both my tubes looked normal during surgery and my surgeon said I had a PUL (pregnancy of unknown location). In addition, my HSG showed that both of my tubes are open. So, we agreed that I would do more cycles of Clomid since it worked for me the first time I tried it and plus, I wasn't ready for IVF. After three more rounds of Clomid and trying on our own, we did not get pregnant like the first time we took Clomid.  :-(

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