Shannon's Fertility Treatments

I will admit. This will probably be short...

And I want to add that my regular doctor (Dr. Flo-first name... I find it hilarious!) tested me for hypothyroidism. Mainly because I was gaining weight really fast after I became sexually active. Didn't have it though.

Dr. Flo recommended me to a fertility doctor (Dr. S.) because she is an OB/GYN and elderly patient doctor. Dr. S. is the one that ordered the HSG test. She kept me on 3 months of BC before I started my 1st round of clomid.

The 1st round was at 50 mg in January 2009 and she had me start metformin too (although my glucose/insulin levels were fine). Had to take clomid days 5-10, and have sex days 6,8, and 10. Then do bloodwork on either days 14 & 21 or 21 & 28... I'm sure I could find the instructions somewhere. BTW, the bloodwork took a week for the results to come in! BFN.

The doctor had me wait to see if my cycle would start. It didn't and on day 63 since the last cycle I finally had another appointment with the doctor. She decided to put me on provera to get my cycle started and then do another cycle of clomid at 100 mg.

Right before I started the clomid we moved in with my FIL to save money for a house and to help him with being laid off.

So we had to do this 2nd round at his house. Interesting, to say the least. The 2nd round was postponed because my period from that round of provera ended up lasting longer than expected (at least 2 weeks). And then I was on one month of BC. So the 2nd round of clomid was in April 2009. BFN again.

Due to stress at home (living with the FIL, Hubs getting laid off, getting ready to go back to school, etc) I talked to Dr. S. and decided to put off treatments for a while. She had recommended from the beginning to lose weight and suggested I try again. I didn't think it would make a difference because, even though I had gained a lot since high school, I wasn't "normal" in high school either.

Sadly... Life got crazy and this was the extent of our fertility treatments... Another post to come to follow up on the next few years.
~Shannon