Back in April of 2006, I met my soul mate. In April of 2010, that soul mate became my husband. Now everything we do is done as a team.
Jump forward to August of 2010, we decided that we wanted to start TTC (trying to conceive). We knew this would be a long trying process. Little did we know where it would lead us. The battle no woman ever wants to fight, infertility.
My cycles were never normal, but I never thought about it because well, I just wasn't worried about it. In December of 2009, I started AF but it didn't stop. I dealt with it, two weeks on, a few days off, then on again and so on. I thought it would stop on its, own, but it didn't I finally made a dr. appointment. I was told my sugar was a little out of whack and that was probably the issue, and was started on 500 mg of Metformin and birth control pills to try to regulate. Two weeks before our wedding I had the worst bleeding of my life! Again, the doc said let it run it's course, once your birth control pills kick in, it'll stop. Low and behold, 5 days before my wedding it stopped!!! Thank you Jesus! Well, I continued to take the BC pills until September 1st. That's when I stopped. Again, no AF, no AF, no AF and so on... well, for me this was normal, it's how my periods have always gone. Finally I would have one....then I'd skip several months...and so on... jump forward to December of 2011, I started having some spotting and by January 2012 here we go again, the never ending AF! UGH... This went off and on until April, I started taking birth control pills again because I knew that would make it stop and we were fixing to go to the beach!!! At the end of March, I called and made an appointment with an Reproductive Endocrinologist (RE). First available appointment was in May. That's okay, I know there aren't a lot of them and was willing to wait. Finally, my appointment. First appointment wasn't so bad. They talked to me about what was going on and did some blood work. They scheduled hubs for a sperm analysis (SA), and scheduled my next appointment, which would include a pap and a biopsy.... SCARY!!! Fast forward to appointment #2, that was the most painful thing I can remember! Sorry ladies, be prepared cause it hurts! I have never left the doc crying until that day. Poor hubs he was such a good sport! :) All results came back, my sugar was not out of whack, my A1C was 5.7, they get concerned at 6.0. Hubs had to do a second SA, the first one wasn't quite what they wanted to see, but the second one was fine. As for me, basically I have PCOS, I just haven't ever had an issue with cysts... So our fertility treatment begins...I started round one, Provera to induce period, Clomid 50 mg, cd 3-7 with 500 mg Metformin. No response, on to cycle 2, Provera to induce period, 100 mg Clomid, cd 3-7 with 500 mg Metformin. No response, BUT I got AF naturally!!! YAY!!!!! On to cycle 3, 150 mg Clomid, cd 3-7 with 500 mg Metformin. No response again! :( Follow up appointment to discuss our next option. My RE said that at my weight, 500 mg Metformin isn't going to do anything (We just followed this regimen that I was already on) and that higher doses of Metformin paired with Clomid can help. One side effect of PCOS is insulin resistance....It's amazing how all these organs in your body works together, I've learned A LOT!! Anyways, I had the option to try Clomid with 2000 mg of Metformin or try Femera, which is marketed for breast cancer patients but has been proven to work with fertility. Femera is more expensive, so for now, I chose to try Clomid with a high dose of Metformin. I did the first round in December, 100 mg Clomid with 2000 mg Metformin... No response, BUT again, I got my period naturally!!! Onto the next cycle... 200 mg Clomid with 2000 mg Metformin. Still waiting on the results. I havne't had a positive OPK yet, so I'm not ready to go do blood work to check my progesterone.
A midst all off this, early on in our relationship, we talked about adoption. We both have big hearts and love kids. So that has always been in the back of our minds. Well, we've decided we're going to start the adoption process. This in no way puts our TTC journey on hold or calls it quits! What ever happens, is meant to happen. If we end up with a house full, that's okay! More on the adoption journey in my next post.
You are now up to speed as to what this blog will be about. You've read about our TTC journey and you'll still read about it, you will also be reading about our Adoption journey! Can't wait to write about that in my next post. :)
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