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On this Family Day...a date with my RE...how befitting
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nextchapter
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20 February 2012
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So me and DH had a follow up appointment to my failed FET (this is after two fresh cycles, one resulting in a positive but I m/c at 7 weeks) with my RE on Family Day!
He's told us once and he told us again, we should've been pregnant. We have put a total of 6 eggs in an no live birth came from it. He also mentioned that because I had a "sticky" embryo for my FET (one of the embryos got stuck in the catheter) that almost always resulted in a positive. It's frusterating for us and for him as well as he can't give us a clear answer except we should be pregnant by now. So this is what he told us for our next step if I can remember correctly.
1. Immunity testing and also some testing for recurrant miscarriages (even though I only had one they reccommend this test if you've had 3 or 4 m/c but in my case he is requesting it)
2. Uterine lining biopsy to check to see if there is any inflmmation. I highly doubt there is any inflammation but it's free and only minorly discomforting as he told me.
3. A hysteroscopy- this means they put a camera (i think) into my uterus to "agitate" my uterus as he seems to think this can result in a pregnancy (by agitating my uterus)
4. An April/May fresh cycle in which he recommends we transfer 3 embryos (not 2)...wow! that was a shocker..
This seems like a good plan. He told me that he has seen 4 other couples that are/were in the same frusterating boat (young, day 5 embryos, no implanation) and for those that became pregnant it took them around 3 fresh cycles. Our April/May will be our third fresh cycle.
Dr. Roberts (from PCRM) did a good job comforting me and assuring me that I will get pregnant and that he will be more aggressive this time around (hence #2-4 options). He helped us out by giving us Lupron for free and a free 900 Gonal-F pen for our next cycle-- so that's around $1100 of our next cycle. Our cycles typically run $13,000 so any reduction helps us.
So we have two months of natural conception until our fresh cycle. I ovulated this past weekened and we bd last week so only time will tell. I know there are other couples in similar situations as us--it'd be nice to hear from y'all!
He's told us once and he told us again, we should've been pregnant. We have put a total of 6 eggs in an no live birth came from it. He also mentioned that because I had a "sticky" embryo for my FET (one of the embryos got stuck in the catheter) that almost always resulted in a positive. It's frusterating for us and for him as well as he can't give us a clear answer except we should be pregnant by now. So this is what he told us for our next step if I can remember correctly.
1. Immunity testing and also some testing for recurrant miscarriages (even though I only had one they reccommend this test if you've had 3 or 4 m/c but in my case he is requesting it)
2. Uterine lining biopsy to check to see if there is any inflmmation. I highly doubt there is any inflammation but it's free and only minorly discomforting as he told me.
3. A hysteroscopy- this means they put a camera (i think) into my uterus to "agitate" my uterus as he seems to think this can result in a pregnancy (by agitating my uterus)
4. An April/May fresh cycle in which he recommends we transfer 3 embryos (not 2)...wow! that was a shocker..
This seems like a good plan. He told me that he has seen 4 other couples that are/were in the same frusterating boat (young, day 5 embryos, no implanation) and for those that became pregnant it took them around 3 fresh cycles. Our April/May will be our third fresh cycle.
Dr. Roberts (from PCRM) did a good job comforting me and assuring me that I will get pregnant and that he will be more aggressive this time around (hence #2-4 options). He helped us out by giving us Lupron for free and a free 900 Gonal-F pen for our next cycle-- so that's around $1100 of our next cycle. Our cycles typically run $13,000 so any reduction helps us.
So we have two months of natural conception until our fresh cycle. I ovulated this past weekened and we bd last week so only time will tell. I know there are other couples in similar situations as us--it'd be nice to hear from y'all!