13 DPIUI and BFN!

I officially go for a blood draw on Wed., but it doesn't look like this IUI worked.  I am on the fence about doing this for Dec, as we are going to have a house full of family, but also wonder if it will help in that I did take drugs last month and they could build up for the next month.

I am tired of all this Infertility crap.  We conceived once, how come we cannot conceive again????

FML.

IUI the procedure

I went in on Wed to do the IUI.  J dropped off the sperm at 8 am and we went in at 9:45am for the procedure.  His numbers where good.. 87 million sperm pre-wash and 13 million post wash.  According to my online research:

" A count above one million washed appears necessary for success, with a significant reduction in pregnancy rates when the inseminated is count is lower than 5-10 million (in other words, in most cases one should consider 5 million a lower limit for success, 10 million for cost-effective). Higher success rates are with washed counts over 20-30 million, while increasing counts over 50 million did not appear to offer advantage." Source: http://www.fertilityplus.org/faq/iui.html

 I only had one follie on the right side that matured to 20.  That means our chance for a successful pregnancy is lowered to 6%. 

" Searching through about a dozen medical journal articles and a number of web sites resulted in a rather wide range of statistics. Basically the odds of success are reported to be just under 6 percent and as high as 26 percent per cycle. The low statistics are with one follicle, while multiple follicles resulted in as high 26 percent success. Another influencing factor is sperm count. Higher sperm counts increase the odds of success; however, there was little difference between success with good-average counts and those with high counts. The overall success rate seems to be between 15-20 percent per cycle, judging from the articles which will be abstracted below. The rate of multiple gestation pregnancies is 23-30 percent.

According to different studies, either 3-4 follicles gives one the best chance of getting pregnant, while more follicles beyond that simply increases the risk of multiples. The U.S. study said 4 follicles, while other countries have data stating 3. The U.S. has a higher rate of multiple births, so 3 may be more likely to be the correct answer." Source: http://www.fertilityplus.org/faq/iui.html

So now I wait until Dec 2, 2009 where they will draw my blood to see if I am pregnant or not. 

IUI: The process so far

Over the weekend we drove all the way to Rockville for the monitoring appointments.  My follies decided to take their own sweet time in developing.  I had 4- 2 on the right and 2 on the left side.  On the Right side there was a 16mm follie and a 10mm follie.  My estrogen was at about 190.  On the left was two 10mm follies.  They had me do another injection of FSH (Gonal-F) and I had to come back on Sunday.  On Sunday I had 17mm follie and they did not tell me the sizes of the other two.  My estrogen was over 280.  They wanted me to do another FSH injection but I was out of Gonal-F and no one in the SGFC office bothered to mention that we might need this while we where there!  I had to drive all the way back to Rockville to get it.  I was not happy about it and they got a piece of my mind about it. 

So that brings us to today.  I went in and my big follie measured 18.2 and one on the left measured 12.  My estrogen level was 560.  They want the estrogen to be over 200 and the follie over 18 before you trigger.  I will be triggering tonight.  That means we are all set to do the IUI on Wed.  They kept reassuring me that I can get pregnant with only one follie.  I hope that works!!! 

I cannot help but not be oh so hopeful for this cycle because they had such issues getting my follies to grow and be the right size.  I don't know why my body does not want to work the way it should with all these fertility meds.  It gets frustrating!

As a side note, though, J is getting good practice at injecting me with the meds.