Still here, still not pregnant..or am I?

I didn't realize how long it has been since I have posted. I made it to day 34 before I started. I stopped testing after the last post because I had that pre-period feeling. Why waste tests when you just know.

My OB upped the dosage of Femara to double the original and I braced myself for double the side effects. I still had the day of misery with achy muscles and nausea, but the rest of the month went much smoother. Occasional nausea that only lasted a few minutes, but I felt great otherwise. I tested on day 27 with negative results and started on day 29. I was hopeful, but not too much. I really feel that I O'd on time (my perfect 28 day cycle backs up my feeling on that subject), but it was not meant to be.

I called the Dr's office and decided to do another cycle with timed intercourse. I also got some good news. When we were going to the RE in Georgia, we were told that a cycle of insemination would run about $500. A friend of my Mother recently told her that the going rate was closer to $1,500. Wow! That's a big difference. That new figure was the basis for our decision to continue to try on our own for a few more months. While on the line with the nurse, I found out that the actual cost of insemination through my OB is only around $250. We will have to pay for the Ultrasounds since they are coded for infertility treatment and my insurance will have nothing to do with that service code, but that is much better than the $1,500 we were told to expect. I really need to learn to not trust people. I would probably be doing an insemination cycle this month if I had the correct info. We will do one next month if necessary, but hopefully we won't need to .

I am currently on day 18. No symptoms, but I had none this early for the other pregnancies either.

We have come to the conclusion that need be, we would be willing to try a cycle or two of insemination and if that failed, we would go with adoption (more on that in another post). For the cost of one round of IVF we could guarantee a healthy newborn through adoption, even if the wait is longer than we would like.

Long Time No Blog

We are officially in the new house. We have been for a couple of weeks, but we are no where near settled. We still dig around in boxes on a daily basis, searching for something we need but have not unpacked yet. The garage is a maze of cardboard boxes and plastic totes, with a path to the door and smaller, sub-paths that lead to major box formations.

New furniture has mostly been purchased and almost everything has at least been decided on. Christmas preparations have taken over any spare time that we would normally devote to house stuff. I am really looking forward to the new year when we can take down the holiday decorations and get started on painting and getting art on the walls.

Last month's cycle was a mess. I started spotting on the day I O'ed (cycle day 18). This cycle was the first cycle that I had taken the B6 from day 1 (started on day 5 the previous cycle), and I was really hoping it had something to do with that, so I immediately stopped the B6, but the spotting continued. After a week I was convinced that I was just to have a really short cycle and cycle day 1 was coming any day, but I managed to have a 30 day cycle with spotting every day until the real deal showed up.

I had another small incident of spotting on cycle day 18 again this month, but this was a one time occurrence and that is not unusual for me. I had an appointment with my new OB/GYN on cycle day 20, and as of that time I had not O'ed for the month. She did not feel that it was necessary for me to continue charting for reasons I will explain in my next post, so I haven't temped any more since the appointment and don't know if I ever did O or not.

More on the new Doctor and our next steps in my next installment.