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So today is Christmas Eve, I'm very excited to spend my first Christmas with Chuck as a married couple. We will be spending time with both our families and can't wait to see all our nieces and nephews and how excited they will be for Christmas. We love them all so much. Christmas without children just isn't the same, kids bring such a different light to the holiday and always can keep the Christmas spirit alive.
I'm finished with the 5 day femara and the side effects were pretty minimal, a few hot flashes here and there and some cramping but nothing at all bad. We also had a doctor's appointment today to view my follicles and see how I responded to the drugs. Yes fertility appointments never stop, 365 days a year it doesn't matter what day it is the treatment continues. Anyways, so we received good news at the doctor, I had 2 mature follicles on my right ovary of 20 mm. That is a very good response to the drug and my endometrium lining was also thickening nicely. So with hia counts coming back good, we are going to give it a shot on our own. Chuck saw the 2 follicles and thought twins! LOL. It doesn't necessarily mean twins but this is why fertility meds give a higher rate of multiples because 2 eggs could release this cycle, though both may not fertilize and implant. So I had to give myself an Ovidrel shot tonight to stimulate ovulation. I was a little nervous but it was so easy and painless. Chuck wanted to give it to me first but I wasn't letting him come near me with that needle ;) So now I should ovulate in about 36 hours from the shot. And we just pray for a Christmas miracle!
The visit with the RE (Reproductive Endocrinologist) at the Institute for Reproductive Health went well. He seemed optimistic. Not sure if he has that attitude with everyone, but I'm going to take that as a positive for now. Any positives in this process are needed. So he doesn't want to do another lap right now. (I had a laproscopy 2 years ago to laser out the endometriosis. It's minimally invasive, they cut me open with three small scars and got rid of all the endometriosis and an endometrioma cyst on my right ovary, but the recovery was a little rough. So needless to say if I don't have to have another one immediately I'm glad for that). So I've already had an hsg years ago, which is a test where they shoot dye through your tubes and uterus to make sure nothing is blocked, that came back clear years ago so he's not doing another one of those either. So we get to start right into treatment, which I'm pretty happy about, no more tests as of now at least.
So today I start 5 days of a drug called Femara, it's actually a drug approved for breast cancer and not yet fda approved for fertility yet. But he said the results are comparable to clomid and the side effects are way less, including less of a chance of multiples. The nice thing is our insurance covered this drug, we only had to pay for the Ovidrel injection, which considering our insurance is covering all our doctor appointments also, I really can't complain. So the doctor said on the ultrasound he did last week that my follicles looked small, this drug is supposed to develop these follicles to maturity and ready them for ovulation. We are not going to go right into IUI (artificial insemination) yet as long as his counts all come back good, because we'd really like to keep this process as natural as we can all considered :) So now I just take these drugs and we pray for good follicles.
