Thursday, August 25, 2011

The Latest

A quick update..

Everything is going fairly well with our FET cycle so far. I was supposed to have my transfer last week, but my lining was a little thin (7.2), so we decided to postpone one week. At my scan today the lining was 7.3, so not much of a jump. They say it's alright though. My lining was only 7.5 last transfer, so this might be about all my unicornuate uterus can do.

There is a whole new batch of residents and fellows at my clinic. I loved my old doctors, so I wasn't too pleased about this. They knew me and my uterus so it was nice. Oh well. What if I get to know these doctors, I'm still not pregnant, and have to meet all new doctors again!!

Monday, August 1, 2011

FET #2

We'll be having FET #2 on August 24th!

Four of our embryos are still frozen - 2 high quality and 2 mid-quality.

For the first two cycles, our doctor strongly recommended that we only transfer one embryo per try. This time she will let us transfer two if we decide, but we'd have to selectively reduce if both took. With transferring two there is a 50% chance that we'll get pregnant and if we do, there'd be a 33% chance of twins. We've decided that one embryo is the way to go for now.

I started my Lupron at some point in the recent past...it's all kinda blurring together at this point. Other than the Lupron, not much to report. I'll be starting estrogen patches and pills this weekend.

My insurance company took $7,000 (of my $15,000 lifetime infertility) for my surgery in February. My doctor has written them a letter asking them not to charge it to infertility, but I'm still waiting on their decision. UGH. If they don't give me that $ back, we'll only have $1,800 left for infertility. Luckily the FETs are fairly cheap - $1,500 medical cost I believe (and $1,500 for Rx, but we may still have coverage on that).

My husband will be working out of town through my progesterone, so I had planned to switch to Crinone (a vaginal progesterone gel), but insurance will not cover it unless I am already pregnant, and without coverage it'll be $900...compared to $20 for progesterone in oil for injection. I'm just gonna try giving myself the shots. I think I can do it! I've seen videos on youtube of people doing their own, so surely I can too! The hardest part will be checking the syringe for blood before injecting.

That's about that for now. Our next pregnancy test will be September 7th! Over a month away, but I'm getting excited already!