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Post by orangehibiscus on Apr 28, 2022 14:41:53 GMT -6
Hi y’all! I have a question about moving to the next step of fertility treatments. This is a bit cart before horse.
**TW** LC and losses mentioned
I’m 34, and H is 37. We have a 3 year old DD. It took us 2.5 years to have her. I had a pregnancy of unknown location and a proven ectopic before I got pregnant with DD. I lost my left tube from the ectopic. In total, we did 11/12 TI cycles. DD was conceived the 3rd TI cycle after my ectopic surgery (same TI with meds that we’re doing now).
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We have had 2 TI cycles so far, and neither has worked. Today is CD 2, and I’ll start Letrozole tomorrow. RE is increasing my Letrozole dose up to 5mg this cycle. I did 2.5mg the last 2 cycles. I’m also doing Follistim 50, which is the same dose as the last 2 cycles. RE is increasing my Letrozole dose to try to get more follicles. I’ve only had 1 mature follicle each of the last 2 cycles. They’re hoping to have 2 mature follicles with the higher Letrozole dose this time.
RE’s nurse mentioned moving on to IUI if the 3rd TI cycle was a bust. Again, this is cart before horse, but I’m not sure we’re ready to move on to IUI. My main concern is my work schedule. We would have to travel 1.5 hours each way to have IUI done. I can technically change my work schedule with only 24 hours notice, but I feel guilty about it. It pushes work onto others, and I don’t like that. Should I feel or not feel guilty about this? There’s no where closer for IUI to be done. I could do IUI in the afternoons I’m sure, but I feel bad having patients moved around just so I can try to get pregnant. How do feel ready to move on to the next step? Should we do 5-6 TI cycles before moving to IUI?
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Post by 🍍 🍊 Fineapple 🍍 🍊 on May 6, 2022 20:24:25 GMT -6
Hey dear. Sometimes we have to be selfish and put us first
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Post by 🍍 🍊 Fineapple 🍍 🍊 on May 6, 2022 20:24:41 GMT -6
I’d say try the IUI.
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Post by orangehibiscus on May 8, 2022 11:14:29 GMT -6
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Post by robotsvswrestlers on May 10, 2022 9:51:38 GMT -6
Hope you don’t mind me chiming in. I had a somewhat similar situation trying to conceive #3. My first was IVF after three failed TI and three failed IUI. Second was a frozen transfer. After two failed transfers trying for #3, we ran out of embryos. I knew I wasn’t “done” but also didn’t want IVF or even IUI again. So we tried probably 8 TI cycles.
For me, it took those 8 cycles before I was ready. I kept hoping it would just work. I didn’t want any extra appointments. I just wanted to be “normal” but eventually the frustration became too much. I gave myself three IUIs before giving up. The first one took.
Do not feel guilty! You need to do what you need to do for you and your family. If that is what is holding you back, let it go and do it. If you don’t feel ready for other reasons, that is totally okay. You will know when you want to move forward and try other treatments.
Good luck and I hope everything works out for you.
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Post by orangehibiscus on May 10, 2022 18:09:18 GMT -6
Hope you don’t mind me chiming in. I had a somewhat similar situation trying to conceive #3. My first was IVF after three failed TI and three failed IUI. Second was a frozen transfer. After two failed transfers trying for #3, we ran out of embryos. I knew I wasn’t “done” but also didn’t want IVF or even IUI again. So we tried probably 8 TI cycles. For me, it took those 8 cycles before I was ready. I kept hoping it would just work. I didn’t want any extra appointments. I just wanted to be “normal” but eventually the frustration became too much. I gave myself three IUIs before giving up. The first one took. Do not feel guilty! You need to do what you need to do for you and your family. If that is what is holding you back, let it go and do it. If you don’t feel ready for other reasons, that is totally okay. You will know when you want to move forward and try other treatments. Good luck and I hope everything works out for you. Thank you for sharing! We didn’t need IUI/IVF to get DD, so I didn’t think I would need anything more than TI this time. I know it doesn’t actually work that way necessarily, although sometimes it does. I need to let go of the guilt about leaving work to do IUI. I still keep thinking what if the next TI cycle is the one that works? |
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Post by robotsvswrestlers on May 10, 2022 18:53:19 GMT -6
Hope you don’t mind me chiming in. I had a somewhat similar situation trying to conceive #3. My first was IVF after three failed TI and three failed IUI. Second was a frozen transfer. After two failed transfers trying for #3, we ran out of embryos. I knew I wasn’t “done” but also didn’t want IVF or even IUI again. So we tried probably 8 TI cycles. For me, it took those 8 cycles before I was ready. I kept hoping it would just work. I didn’t want any extra appointments. I just wanted to be “normal” but eventually the frustration became too much. I gave myself three IUIs before giving up. The first one took. Do not feel guilty! You need to do what you need to do for you and your family. If that is what is holding you back, let it go and do it. If you don’t feel ready for other reasons, that is totally okay. You will know when you want to move forward and try other treatments. Good luck and I hope everything works out for you. Thank you for sharing! We didn’t need IUI/IVF to get DD, so I didn’t think I would need anything more than TI this time. I know it doesn’t actually work that way necessarily, although sometimes it does. I need to let go of the guilt about leaving work to do IUI. I still keep thinking what if the next TI cycle is the one that works? I thought the same thing cycle after cycle too until one day something in me snapped and I thought omg I can’t do this again lol. That’s when I knew I was ready to try IUI again. |
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Post by orangehibiscus on May 10, 2022 21:18:55 GMT -6
Thank you for sharing! We didn’t need IUI/IVF to get DD, so I didn’t think I would need anything more than TI this time. I know it doesn’t actually work that way necessarily, although sometimes it does. I need to let go of the guilt about leaving work to do IUI. I still keep thinking what if the next TI cycle is the one that works? I thought the same thing cycle after cycle too until one day something in me snapped and I thought omg I can’t do this again lol. That’s when I knew I was ready to try IUI again. Glad to know I’m not alone. Thanks!! |
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Post by ♪♫choppinbroccoli♫♪ on May 13, 2022 10:35:38 GMT -6
Hey, just now seeing this, but F feeling guilty! We gotta start looking at infertility as any other medical issue. Would you feel guilty if you needed surgery for something? Or getting your wisdom teeth removed?
I get the feeling of "maybe the next TI will work," but I am begging you to not take the temporary inconvenience work may face into consideration on what the best next steps are for you. Best of luck!!
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Post by orangehibiscus on May 14, 2022 16:29:22 GMT -6
Hey, just now seeing this, but F feeling guilty! We gotta start looking at infertility as any other medical issue. Would you feel guilty if you needed surgery for something? Or getting your wisdom teeth removed? I get the feeling of "maybe the next TI will work," but I am begging you to not take the temporary inconvenience work may face into consideration on what the best next steps are for you. Best of luck!! That’s a great point Broc. I certainly would not feel guilty for taking time off work for those things. I’m in a cancelled cycle right now (dominant follicle is on the left, I don’t have that tube), so I’m waiting for CD1. That should be about 12 days from now. I’m going to repeat my HSG because I want to make sure the right tube is ok since I had my appendix out. We will do one more completed TI cycle, and then move on to IUI if needed. Thank you, robotsvswrestlers, and 🍍 🍊 Fineapple 🍍 🍊 for the advice! I really appreciate it. Edited to fix a tag |
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Post by 🍍 🍊 Fineapple 🍍 🍊 on May 14, 2022 21:22:30 GMT -6
Hey, just now seeing this, but F feeling guilty! We gotta start looking at infertility as any other medical issue. Would you feel guilty if you needed surgery for something? Or getting your wisdom teeth removed? I get the feeling of "maybe the next TI will work," but I am begging you to not take the temporary inconvenience work may face into consideration on what the best next steps are for you. Best of luck!! That’s a great point Broc. I certainly would not feel guilty for taking time off work for those things. I’m in a cancelled cycle right now (dominant follicle is on the left, I don’t have that tube), so I’m waiting for CD1. That should be about 12 days from now. I’m going to repeat my HSG because I want to make sure the right tube is ok since I had my appendix out. We will do one more completed TI cycle, and then move on to IUI if needed. Thank you, robotsvswrestlers, and 🍍 🍊 Fineapple 🍍 🍊 for the advice! I really appreciate it. Edited to fix a tag I have everything crossed for |
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