$300 worth of follistim in my fridge that is open because we had to use a whole 25 iu’s of it last cycle. $300 worth of follistim that I don’t get to use for IUI #5 because it will go bad by then. Cysts on both ovaries this month so they didn’t want to do the cycle. $300 worth of follistim that even though I probably shouldn’t…I AM going to use unmonitored. I CANNOT throw $300 out the window right now.
Has anyone else ever done anything like this? (Please make me feel better by saying yes, lol.)
I think it can only do good, not be harmful. If I would have insisted, they would have let me cycle but they didn’t recommend it. Oils were immediately applied to ovaries to hopefully help them shrink instead of getting bigger and bursting. I really don’t want to go through that pain. Hoping my Sister has clove oil that I can get from her so I can do the oral option too and not just topical. If anyone wants that protocol it is: rub orange, then frankincense and the basil on your lower abdomen. It smells really good til you put the basil on, lol. For some reason, I just do not love the smell of the basil oil.
In all honesty, Ladies, I was a hot mess yesterday. I was such a hot mess, that I couldn’t even sit down to write this post. Cycles get cancelled all the time, I get that. It had more to do with the stress of money and throwing out that medicine then having to sit out a month. On top of that, I didn’t see my usual Dr., I saw the one that comes from Madison to do the IVF cycles. I’d never met her before and although she was nice enough, she wasn’t Dr. R or even Megan or Jamie who usually do my IUI’s. She didn’t really know my story so it was just hard to take that news from her.
She also said that she doesn’t see many follicles in (or on, not sure the right word for it) my ovaries. Just by looking at the ultrasounds she doesn’t think our chances with IVF are very good, maybe 35%. She had me go to the lab for a blood draw so they could test my AMH and she wants us to come in for an IVF consult week after next (more about that later). Now, we were leaning more towards adoption then IVF anyways, but Girls, I was devastated….DEVASTATED!!!! To feel like that option was just ripped away from us in case we did find the money to do it just tore me apart. I bawled all the way home and in J’s arms for quite a while after I got home. And on the phone with my Mom after J left to go to some benefit thing.
J doesn’t want to go to the IVF consult…he doesn’t want to go to any Dr. this month because he says I just get stressed out and he just wants to take the month off. What he doesn’t seem to grasp is that just because we’re taking the month off from IUI’s and dr.’s, doesn’t mean I’m not going to stress (I REALLY SUCK at giving my worries over to God).
So where does this leave us? I don’t totally know. I’ll finish up the follistim because I can’t stand to waste it. Do OPK’s and TI and Pray, Pray, Pray! Hopefully the cysts will go away peacefully and gently without pain and we will be ready to do IUI#5 next cycle. I don’t know how many more J will let me do. Again, he’s totally freaking out about money and credit card debt. I can’t really blame him though, it is a little scary. If we’re not pregnant by the end of the year, we will put our names in to hopefully start the adoption process in January.
I need to Thank you Ladies for all the comments and Love you send my way. They mean so, so, so much to me. Although most of my friends and family are very supportive, no one, not even J, can understand the way you Girls can. Sending much Love, thoughts, Prayers, Baby Dust and Hugs to you all!!!!
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