here’s my story

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well here goes, i can’t believe it but i am starting a blog… why? because i can’t get pregnant and i don’t personally know anyone else going through this, i need some support! my husband is supportive of course, but i really need the stories and support of other women going through the same or same-ish thing.  i am pretty much blog challenged, so i guess this is just going to be your basic blog, no bells and whistles, at least for a little while anyways.  ANYHOO… here’s my back round…

i am 32 years old.  after living in montana for many many years i moved back to my home state of michigan in august of 2006.  i “met” my husband that same month.  i say “met” because we actually attended junior high and high school together.  we got married on september 1, 2007, exactly one year and one day after our first date…

awwwww, how cute right?

this was our wedding logo.  it was on our invitations…

so we started trying to get pregnant right away in september of ‘07.  i have a very regular 28 day cycle and we had previously been using condoms, so there were no birth control pills to get out of my system.  i ovulated every month between days 12-14 like clock work.  we decided to do a semen analysis around december/january of ‘07/’08 which came back totally normal, so we just kept trying.

i should probably mention here that it is likely that i have endometriosis.  i haven’t had surgery to diagnose it, but i have pretty severe menstrual cramps and i had an ectopic pregnancy years and years ago.  i’m not sure why they didn’t check for it when they did the surgery to remove the ectopic pregnancy, it seems logical to me, but they didn’t, c’est la vie.  so around may of ‘08 i had an hsg (hysterosalpingogram), i’m sure that many of you know what that is, but for those who don’t, a catheter is inserted into your cervix and dye is flushed through your uterus and falopian tubes to determine whether or not you have any abnormalities or blockages.  that part itself wasn’t too bad, but in order to keep the dye from running out they put a little balloon in the opening of your cervix and blow it up, THAT PART HURT.  but the results were good, the dye ran right through, no blockages or anything.

so my gyno started me on clomid 50 mg in june of ‘08.  i took it for three months at that dose.  in september she uped my dose to 100 mg.  i was supposed to try that for a few more months, but i didn’t see the point since statistically speaking most people who get pregnant on clomid get pregnant on their 3rd or 4th round.

in october we had our first appointment with the reproductive endocrynoligist.  he changed my dose of clomid to 150 mg and prescribed ovidrel injectable.  we also had another semen analysis done around this time which came back totally normal again.  we planned on just doing it the old fashioned way, you know, sex, but it turned out my husband would be out of town on  a business trip (he is a lot), so we froze a “sample”.  i had an ultrasound on day 13 of my cycle in october and i had four mature follicles, but as with a lot of people who are on clomid for a while, my endometrial lining was thin, so they started me on estrace.  it is bright blue and it has to be administered vaginally… (gag).  i got my ovidrel shot the same day as my ultrasound, and the next day i went back to have my first iui husbandless (no fun).  it was mildly unpleasant.  my cervix was tilted so she had to spray some “numbing” agent on it (it wasn’t very numbing), and then grab it with forceps or something, like i said, mildly unpleasant.  but on day 32 i started my period.  oh yeah, it’s weird, i always had a very regular 28 day cycle, but since i started messing with my body it’s changed to a 32 day cycle.  i started my clomid on november 10, my estrace on the 13th and i have my next ultrasound scheduled for wednesday.  so that pretty much gets us up to now, oh yeah, and my husband all ready has a daughter (riley) from a previous relationship, she’s 11.

this is us on the fourth of july.  my husband hates this picture, i love it.  nothing says ‘merica like hotdogs and pbr (which i can no longer drink)

this is my dog annabel, she is the cutest dog in all of the land, i LOVE her

this is my bonus daughter riley on her 11th birthday (last month)

sooooooooo, do you feel like your starting to get to know me?

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