Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Let's get Started!!

So, I have finally decided to start a blog on our trying to concive (ttc) journey. I don't even know where to get started. Well since ttc involves two people I guess I could start with how Jake and I met.
Jake and I first met in high school where we went on a double date with different people. He was dating one of my friends at the time, and I was with someone one else. After high school we didn't see each other until about two years after we graduated we had a mutual friend so we hung out a few times. That is when he asked me one day if I wanted to go to a party with him, I said sure why not. So, after going to that party with him it was all over from there, and we have been together ever since. A year and a half after we started dating we decided to move to Arizona together, and about six months after moving to Arizona we got engaged and married a year and a half later. That brings us to ttc.
I was diagnosed with Polycystic Overian Syndrom (PCOS) in 2007. PCOS is what is preventing us from having a baby. With PCOS it prevents me from ovulating normally. In September 2008 we decided that we wanted to start trying to get pregant. We new from the beginning that we were going to need some kind of help getting pregnant. I went to the doctor to discuss our options and what we should do first. She ran a bunch of tests and confermend my diagnosis of PCOS. In December we officially started trying to get pregnant. My Dr. put me on Femara to help me ovulate. She tested my blood to make sure the femara was doing its job, and it was. I was ovulating! I forgot to mention this Dr. told me she didn't think it would take us long to get pregnant because I am not overweight, I am young, and I have always had regular periods. We will soon learn she was TOTALLY WRONG!!!!!!!!!! So, we tried the femara for about 5 months with no sucsess. Oh yeah, after the 3rd month of trying we had Jake's little swimmers tested and... He is just fine! Thank God, I would much rather only one of us have and issue. After, all of this she reffered me to a fertility specialist.
This is where the hell beggins!!! We met witht he Fertility Doctor or RE in June of 2009. He ran more tests and he too seemed very optomistic that with a little extra medication and IUI we should be pregnant pretty fast. We ended up doing two cycles of femara and IUI and of course nothing came of that. So, we decided to add to the femara by doing injections of FSH to also help increase the amount of follicals produced to help increase our chances of consiving. Those two cycles didn't work either. That is when I decieded I needed a break.
During all of the active ttc cycles I was an emotional wreck. During the cycles of Femara only it wasn't too bad, however I did cry every time I stared my period. I would also usually have a nice cry a few days before my period came because I just knew it wasn't our month again. The real fun came once we stared seeing the RE and I was put on more meds. I was crying all the time and when I was not crying I was a raging BIOTCH. I am so surprised that Jake never just through me out of the house because I was so crazy. I think between the frustration of not getting pregnant and the hormones from all the medication my body just went nuts! The last cycle we did I decided that would be the last for a few months, I could no longer handle the rollercoaster of emotions I was on, it was literally HELL!
Well, I think this is enough for everyone to soak up for today and I will share the rest of what I have been through tomorrow.

3 comments:

  1. So excited your on here! You know i'll be here every step of the way hun!

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  2. YAY!!!! I'm so happy you made a blog!! Welcome to the Blogging world!!--You'll be addicted!!

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