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NWR: fertility treatments

So I've been taking these treatments for several months now and they are actually starting to work (yay!) but they are making me emotional as hell. I just teared up over a Cheerios commercial. I mean, who does that? I hope nothing that is actually sad comes on. I might be inconsolable.

Re: NWR: fertility treatments

  • Great. So this is what I have to look forward to? I start mine next month.
    What did you think would happen if you walked up to a group of internet strangers and told them to get shoehorned by their lady doc?~StageManager14
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  • Sorry @addiecake but it looks that way. @kimches thanks, I actually feel better now. Getting weepy more often beats having full blown tantrums.
  • I am keeping my fingers crossed for you that they work! Sending good vibes your way!!
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  • Thanks. I'm trying not to get my hopes up but it isn't working.
  • kimches said:

    From what my bff says, that's basically unavoidable. She is always hoping "maybe my period won't come. maybe this is it." We know that it will happen one day or she will be able to change a child's life through adoption! Don't get down though, just know that it will happen one way or another!

    Crazy story: A few years back a couple from my church who had struggled for YEARS with fertility issues finally decided to stop treatments and adopt a baby. Right around the time they were finishing up the adoption and about to get their baby, they found out they were pregnant. Within a year they went from no babies to two babies.

    Stories like that really make me believe that everything happens for a reason. That baby they adopted was truly meant to be with that family. So crazy.
  • kimches said:
    Crazy story: A few years back a couple from my church who had struggled for YEARS with fertility issues finally decided to stop treatments and adopt a baby. Right around the time they were finishing up the adoption and about to get their baby, they found out they were pregnant. Within a year they went from no babies to two babies.
    This is how I know I'm not ready for a child:
    My reaction to that story: "That sounds horrible."
  • kimches said:
    From what my bff says, that's basically unavoidable. She is always hoping "maybe my period won't come. maybe this is it." We know that it will happen one day or she will be able to change a child's life through adoption! Don't get down though, just know that it will happen one way or another!

    Crazy story: A few years back a couple from my church who had struggled for YEARS with fertility issues finally decided to stop treatments and adopt a baby. Right around the time they were finishing up the adoption and about to get their baby, they found out they were pregnant. Within a year they went from no babies to two babies.

    I love stories like that. We have halfway started the adoption process. We're waiting until after the wedding to out everything through though. We figured it can't hurt to get on the list just in case,
  • @kimches that happened to a couple I know as well. They tried for years then they adopted a little boy. Three months later they found out they were pregnant and had a little girl.

    We just started trying for a third. So fingers crossed!

    Good luck @jdluvr06!!!
  • Yeah, I have found it damned near impossible to stop trying. I can't turn my brain off of it, and when you have been trying for years, every time you have sex you're hoping that's the one.
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  • Hell, I've cried at Cheerios commercials.

    Good luck to all of you! That's got to be a heart-wrenching process even without added hormones.

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    @kimches that happened to a couple I know as well. They tried for years then they adopted a little boy. Three months later they found out they were pregnant and had a little girl.

    We just started trying for a third. So fingers crossed!

    Good luck @jdluvr06!!!

    I've heard such things can happen when you stop trying to get pregnant, but I really just dont get how a couple who wants to get pregnant can stop trying. I'm not at that point in life yet, but if FI and I were wanting to get pregnant and "stopped trying," every time I got close to my period I would be hopeful...will my period come? Am I pregnant?

    Sending fertile vibes to you as well as jdluvr!



    Absolutely agree. Now that H and I have started trying there's no stopping! He's enjoying it that's for sure ;)
  • We have been trying on and off for years. The only times we stopped were for random health reasons. I can't imagine stopping though. It's like every month you're so hopeful and then disappointed. It has been really bad for me because I have endometriosis and my periods are pretty irregular and that has tricked me a few times.
  • kimches said:
    @jdluvr06 my friend has irregular periods too so I know how frustrating that is. I can't even tell you how many times she's said "I thought it finally happened, then I got my period." She will go a couple months without and then get a period that lasts 2-3 weeks, which only adds to the suckiness. 2-3 weeks, really??

    I've been lucky not to have periods that long. I have gone months without my period before though. A couple of years ago I went a year without it. It was the most frustrating year but I did have the best summer.
  • @kimches I hope when you guys start trying it is all good news. (((Hugs)))
  • I'm starting Clomid myself once we get word that H is packing heat, so to speak. Hopefully that's all it takes. We were not trying not preventing for awhile, but I never ovulated. PCOS is such a crapshoot. Invoking the spirit of Fertile Myrtle for you!
  • Aw good luck!! My friend has been on the medicines (don't know what they are called) for a few months until her eggs were large enough and she ust got implanted a week ago. I'm really praying for her that it "sticks" but it's the first attempt so we're trying not to get our hopes too high.

    FI and I are terrified of fertility issues. We are both 29 and have never tried/ been off birth control so we have no idea if our parts "work". We don't want to try for another 2 years but I wish there was a way to know right now if we are going to have problems so we can start sooner.

                                                                     

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  • A friend of mine has PCOS and hypothyroidism and her doctor told her that she probably couldn't get pregnant.

    Well, she is! They didn't try for long. She's calling it her miracle baby.

    I don't know if we'll have fertility issues because we don't plan on trying for a few years.

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  • @shrekspeare right now I'm on Clomid and Zoladex. I took tons a stuff before that but this is what is working for me. We are giving these treatment another six months and then we are going to try IUI.
  • I'm dreading getting started on this. I'm a bit old for a first pregnancy and FI's going to need surgery to make it work (yea diabetes!) so it's going to be a disaster. I've been off the pill for a few months now but we know that nothing will happen without intervention- we're just waiting until we're married so I have better insurance.
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  • FI is currently praying to whatever deity will listen to hear that she doesn't have to take any fertility meds when we start trying to knock her up. Her doctor told her she might need progesterone because her levels looked a little low. When we get ready to start trying they'll do more in depth testing to see what she does or does not need.
  • kimches said:
    From what my bff says, that's basically unavoidable. She is always hoping "maybe my period won't come. maybe this is it." We know that it will happen one day or she will be able to change a child's life through adoption! Don't get down though, just know that it will happen one way or another!

    Crazy story: A few years back a couple from my church who had struggled for YEARS with fertility issues finally decided to stop treatments and adopt a baby. Right around the time they were finishing up the adoption and about to get their baby, they found out they were pregnant. Within a year they went from no babies to two babies.
    That's so crazy, that's EXACTLY what happened to my aunt and uncle!  Tried for years, finally went through the adoption process, brought home their daughter, and a couple days later found out my aunt was pregnant.  So weird how things work out.
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  • wishing you the best. Even though I am still super young and we wont try for the next 4-5 years infertility is my biggest fear in life. it is also what I plan on specializing as an OB in the future


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    I'm dreading getting started on this. I'm a bit old for a first pregnancy and FI's going to need surgery to make it work (yea diabetes!) so it's going to be a disaster. I've been off the pill for a few months now but we know that nothing will happen without intervention- we're just waiting until we're married so I have better insurance.
    @wandajune6, we're in the same boat.  I'll be 38 when we get married, and FI has to have his vasectomy reversed that he's had for 14 years.  So we'll see if it works out.  I don't think I'd go the fertility treatments route if things didn't work out naturally, but I don't know that for sure. 
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