Beta came back - on Friday and I started today. We are doing the same thing this cycle. I go in tomorrow for bloodwork and u/s.

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Hugs Im sorry Af showed. Good luck this next cycle i have my HSG done on friday.

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The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps! Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States, 1945

Thanks. I am in the 2WW again already! I only did 10 days of injections this cycle and I had 5 eggs release. If this cycle doesn't work, we may do IUI cause my doc seems to think we can get around the "tricare restrictions" about IUI.

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I hope that this is your cycle that would be so wonderful it would be a great fathers day gift for your Dh. Ill pray for you.

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The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps! Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States, 1945

Hi I'm new here. My DH is deployed yet again. I think he's been gone most of the marriage...haha. Well, I'm due to go through an IUI treatment this Saturday. I'm real nervous. The doc didn't think my uterine lining was thick enough, yet, I didn't want to wait whole'nother cycle. Hoping it'll increase a little more by Saturday.

I figure better to try than not at all. I was pregnant for the first time last year but lost the baby when I reached my 19th week. We got pregnant again 2 months later. Lost that pregnancy as well. This time we had to pay out of pocket to see a specialist. I was on 100mg of clomid for 5 days. I hate the stuff personally and didn't need it but they gave it to me. I'm still having hot flashes and constipation. I think they gave me way too much. And the irony of it is they told me today its probably why my lining is thin.......I could have screamed. I had no idea that was a side effect.

Anyhoo, I'm hoping I get pregnant and stay pregnant this time. At least if I get pregnant this time my DH will be here when I'm due.

Oh, yeah, how did your doc work around the IUI? Tricare is not one to cough up money. So, you are blessed if you've gotten them to help some how. I read some place else about Tricare covering fertility bills as well. I was shocked.

Let me know how its all going for you ladies.

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hello and welcome to the board. I just started infertility testing and so far they seem to be covering that testing iv had to do so far. at least i havent gotten a bill from anyone lol and i better not either. i dont know how mutch or what kind of infertility treatments they cover were just starting this hole thing I go in on the 29th to find out test results then well go from their on what we should do. but im going to be shure to ask if tri-care covers it. good luck with your IUI saturday lots of sticky baby vibes.

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The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps! Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States, 1945

Thanks.

I'm so nervous. I wonder how long they'll let me lay with my bottom elevated. It seems every time I've tried that method I get pregnant but I lay in bed for at least 30 minutes that way. So, now I'm wondering if because its Saturday they will try to rush me out after 15 minutes. I guess I'm going to have to stand my ground. Plus, I'm sure they want their money.....hahaha

I have to drive an hour and a half to the clinic. I haven't ovulated yet but I'm getting dull pains down there so who knows it may happen before Sunday.

As for my thin uterine lining I'm hoping it thicken's. I'm drinking tons of pineapple juice! I hope it does the trick.

Have the doctors given you any idea as to what may be going on? Like say for me, I can get pregnant but I have trouble staying pregnant. I hope the tests give a clear picture and you can get to work on making baby. Its frustrating to say the least. I personally can't wait to put these days behind me. Till then.

I'll post how the treatment went when I get back tomorrow evening.

I just wanted to say good luck today. Im sending lots of sticky bean vibes to you. Hugs

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The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps! Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States, 1945

THANKS SOO MUCH!!!

I just got back from the clinic. Man it was a long drive there and back. Not to mention piping hot.

Anyway, I picked up my husbands sperm from one clinic, and the doc there said it was in excellent condition. He said the sperm was at 63% mobility. I of course had no idea what he was getting at but he was smiling so I guessed it was a good thing. He told me to keep the vial upright and I was good to go.

So, now I'm rushing the sperm to the other clinic and praying to God I don't get in a car accident or anyone else for that matter. I couldn't afford to be held up. They told me the sperm only had a 30 minute window until the IUI.

Finally, I get to clinic and they promptly set me up for the procedure. It was really neat. They were so nice. The nurse explained to me my husband's sperm count and mobility a bit better. She told me the count was at 19 million. That I understood. She showed me the vial and said it was cloudy because the sperm was all swimming around which is good.

They were more excited than I was to be doing the IUI. I guess that means they are hopeful which made me feel a little more at ease.

The procedure itself didn't hurt a bit. I felt nothing except for the speculum. I saw on the screen the sperm being squirted into my uterus. And once again the doc and nurse were all smiles and hoorays. Too funny. They were so busy talking to me the whole time it was going on my fear of getting the IUI never had a chance to really surface.

Okay, I think got a bit long winded there but today was a big day for me and I didn't want to leave anything out.

Now all I have to do is ovulate tomorrow. I've got my fingers crossed that it happens early-like tonight. Its usually right on day 14 and painful as heck.


All there's left to do is wait and I'm a pretty patient person.........however when it comes to THIS kind of waiting I'm terrible at it....lol.

*HUGS*
BABY DUST ALL AROUND

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Just wanted to say congrads im glad that everything went great. Im crossing my fingers for you. I hope that this is your cycle baby dust

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The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps! Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States, 1945

It's about 1am Monday. I did not ovulate like I was suppose to on Sunday. I'm so depressed. I don't think I'm going to get pregnant this cycle. I think the Clomid really threW me off. So, all that good sperm the doc inseminated me with is probably not going to last much longer.

I'll call the clinic in the morning to see what they have to say but my gut feeling is I'm going to ovulate late and there won't be any sperm waiting. This sucks.

I should have one more frozen reserve of sperm but I wouldn't want to use that until I know what my cycle is going to be like. So, if this doesn't work then I don't see myself trying again till August. I'm so exhausted.

I'll let ya'll know what the doc says and when I eventually ovulated. Maybe it'll be today but I don't think sperm last more that 48 hours. Does anyone else know? 10:20am will make 48 since my IUI.

MUCHO BABY DUST ALL AROUND

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Girl i think you still got time. I was told that Sperm can live 4-5 days in good conditions. Im crossing my fingers that you ovulate today. my doc is telling me and Dh to have sex eirler we have been trying to hit the day that i ovulate or the day before which we are manniging to do odly enough but he said its better to have sex a few days before i actually ovulate so that the sperm are wating for the egg. so i think you still have a couple days. Call the clinic and ask they will tell you. HUGS let us know whats happening. im praying for you

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The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps! Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States, 1945

I am so angry. I just called the clinic and I didn't get to speak with the doctor. Instead they put this nurse answered and I knew right away it was not going to be a good call.

I told her I had not ovulated yet and she said that's because you didn't get the trigger injection. And I said because you said I couldn't get that because I produced to many mature follicles. And I said I did some studying online and it said you can ovulate as late as the 16th day with clomid. And she said that's why we try to steer you in the right direction but you wanted to be inseminated on Saturday. I said No, I asked for Sunday because that's the day I was due to ovulate according to my cycle.

She was like so what do you want to do. I said I want to do a double insemination. She said she'd leave a message with the doctor about it and that he'd probably get to it later on today. I could have screamed. She was so rude. I didn't like her when I had an appointment with her on Thursday of last week. It was like she new everything and I knew nothing about my own body. She was the one who said it was possible for me to ovulate earlier than my expected ovulation day. She said some times we don't always know when we ovulate. I am stewing over here. She even asked, how do you know you haven't ovulated and I said because I feel pain when I ovulate and I haven't had any.

I think I'm going to call back and ask to speak to the doctor directly because I don't feel I was actually dealt with properly at all. Heck I'm paying out of pocket for this.

MUCHO BABY DUST ALL AROUND

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I called them but the doctor wasn't in yet. I spoke with a different person on the phone this time. I told her the nurse was suppose to leave a message for doctor. She explained that he'd get the message as soon as he was in and not with a patient. I was really upset and couldn't talk for crying so I limited my responses to 'okay' and 'yes'. She even asked if I wanted to speak to the nurse again and I said 'no, I don't want to talk to her'.

I guess she picked up on how upset I was and no sooner than I hung up the doctor called me.

It didn't help at all.

I'm sure the nurse told him her side of the story which made me look like an idiot. So, he basically said the same stuff she did and that most women can't feel ovulation. Also that its possible I didn't ovulate this cycle.

I was like 'what about the 18mm follicles on my left and right ovary are those just going to sit there and not do anything'. He said its possible.

I just felt like they were all laughing a me. It reminded me of how I was treated during my first pregnancy. I was in labor but the hospital staff kept telling me I was having cramps. How is it some medical staff think because they've read a book on some thing that every woman is going to fit a page in that book? Well, I didn't then, and I loss my baby in preterm labor while the staff ran around trying to help me after it was too late, and I don't now. It seems just to get pregnant while my husband is deployed is going to be just as hard.

The doc said he'd do whatever I wanted be it a another IUI but he also mentioned how it would most likely be a waste since this is most likely a bad cycle. My cycles have been just fine and now suddenly they're BAD? I told him I don't have problems ovulating and he said well you may now..............what kind of crap is that? Clomid is the true culprit here and that fact that I didn't need it in the first place only compounds matters. The only reason I went to the clinic for IUI was because my husband isn't here to do the job himself. Its like they forgot and started treating me like I was infertile.

Sorry to have taken up so much space. I'm just so tired of not being listened to. I don't think I could go back up there for another IUI based off the conversation with the doctor. He's a nice person but I don't think I'm being taken seriously at all. I know my body. I'll just have to find a place who'll listen to it as well as me.

Ever feel cheated?

Right now, it'd take a miracle for me to get pregnant this cycle.

MUCHO BABY DUST ALL AROUND

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O honey im so sorry your dealing with a bunch of iddiots as my Dh would put it. I hate doctors and nurses that talk to you like that. when i first went in to my PCM and told them we had been trying for nearly a year and still wernt pregnant she ask me if we were having unprotected sex im like hello how else do you get pregnant. she acted like i dident know a dang thing i handed her a stack of charts and said i apear to be ovulating going buy my temps and she preceded to tell me that just because my temps rise doesent mean that i ovulated im like what in crap are you talking about then she proceded to ask me (well her tone was more acusitory than anything) if i had an eating disorder because im thin i jumped at her told her i dident have an eating disorder i work out 3-5 days a week and i eat healthy. it drove me nuts but im glad that they tri-care aproved my refural to the fretility doc to see what if theres a reasion im not getting prego. when my sis went into labor with her first baby she had been their like 3 hours and had me call the nurse and tell them the baby was comming the nurse replied o honey no its not it just feels like it i checked you an hour agaio and you have a few hours left. my sister yelled at her and told her to check any way and shure enough she we ready to deliever and they had to rush to catch the baby. some people just always think they are right and dont want to listen to anything else. any way i just wnated to let you know i understand how you feel. I hope this works out for you. and you get a sticky bean soon. HUGS

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The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps! Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States, 1945

Thanks so much for listening to me babble. And I totally understand how you felt when they asked about your weight. I'm at the opposite end and pretty chunky. But its in my genes. I am not as active as I could be but I'm not some fat slob who can barely breathe. I walk up to 3 miles in the morning and evening when I get in a good routine and have excellent blood pressure. I just need to be more consistent with my work outs.

Yet, in April I went to the same clinic to get inseminated and the doctor threw out there that I could wait and lose some weight first or go ahead with it. I was discouraged because he mentioned it and decided to wait till now. I knew in my heart as I left the clinic I should have done it anyway. I've gotten pregnant on my own while FAT. And my best friend is thin like you and super healthy and we've both had the same issues. We get pregnant then lose the baby so I'm not buying the fat thing.

Anyway, I had cooled down a bit until I read how your sis was in labor for 3 hours before they bothered to get with the program. So was I but after the third hour my water broke and that's what got them to help me. I was in so much pain. I wasn't prepared to deliver. I hadn't had any courses on how to push or breathe. It was too soon.

Well, I just want to say that I'm not letting any more heath care people be- little me or boss me around just because they THINK they know every thing. This is my body. I'm stepping up to the plate and owning what happens with it. I'm usually a soft spoken person but that's gotten me no where. From now on I speak my mind. Oh, and I can't believe that nurse asked if you were using protection. OOOO.....that just makes me want to throttle people. I loved it when you said you showed your chart. It sounds like she was caught off guard with how well imformed you are and just said some thing negative because she felt stupid. Who are these people and why do we have to deal with them?

Anyhoo where are you now with your tests? And when do you think you'll get to ttc?
I hope its soon. I need some good news.

Keep me posted.

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Ug Dh is driving me nuts lately he is so grumpy in the mornings when i have to wake him up. I get up at 4:15 and tepm then wake him up it takes me 30-45 minutes to get him out of bed in the morning then i have to deal with him being in a bad mood because he stayed up too late playing his online game and dident get enough sleep. I sat hear and typed a repy to you and got up tp make his lunch and he closed it ahhhh some days i could kill him he is worse to get up in the morning than a 15 year old. any way i totally understand how you feel i hate it when people talk to me like im stupid Im a soft spoken person most of the time also but im not someone you want to piss off. Listen to your body you and only you knows what its doing and what it needs. I hope you can get that BFP soon. im on CD20 right nowwating to see if i ovulated or not i think i may have on Cd18 considering my temp went up some more this morning. well see what fertility friend said after tomarrows temp. un like you i cant always feel when i Ovulate lol i wish i could. so iv got to go buy my temps and my Cm/CP Ill get all my test results on the 29th that will tell me hormone levels and my glucose testing and a bunch of other stuff along with the results of my HSG. Dh needs to find time ot go in and get the results of his SA since he dident give them my Drs info so they wont fax the results to them hell have to go in a pick them up when he can mannage to find time grrr i want to know. so thats whats up with the test i wish they would just let me call in and get the results but they dont do that any more. were still TTC the doc dident tell us not to try so we just keep at it he told us to have sex eirler in my cycle but im not shure why we tried to stick to the every other day thing but it kinda got screwed up with Dh having to have his SA done. that and its kinda hard to obstain when you got as mutch fertal CM as iv had lately im not complaining though i usually dont have mutch at any point in my cycle so iv felt like i need to take advantage of it LOL so mabie its a good sign and well get lucky this cycle. hears my chart i always forget to post it lol. i guess i should add it into my siggie lol. i hope your having a better day today im hear if you need someone to talk to. http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/ee368

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The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps! Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States, 1945

Well, hey, that's great news that you guys are still trying amidst the test. Who knows maybe you'll get a BFP that'd be soooo cool. And I know how you feel about your DH. When mine is home, I have the same problem. He wakes up early on his own but at night he starts playing that blasted computer game like his life depended on it. Dork.....lol

Today is kind of a sad day but I just had accept that this cycle of hope is over unless I was inseminated with SUPER SPERM...lol.

I woke up this morning at 430 feeling sooo sick to my stomach like I could hurl. I had some minor uterus cramping just a bit dull. So, I used my opk and sure it enough it was positive. I was so upset because I was hoping it would stay negative indicating that maybe I ovulated on Sunday like I'd hoped but just didn't feel it. Anyway I did two tests this morning each 4 hours about and both showed that darn smiley face (ClearBlue Easy Digital opk). I did have a thought that maybe yesterday I was just testing too close together and that's why I didn't get the smiley face.

The real kicker is I called the clinic (yeah, had a moment of stupidity take over) and spoke to the same nurse again. (pause for emphasis) I swore I wasn't going to let anything she said get to me. I thought that if I acted really sweet and needy she'd be nicer. WRONG> After I told her about the positive opk she said 'That's why we like to take the bull by the horns' in other words she was saying it was my fault I missed my window of oppurtunity. I wanted to curse her out. She sounded like she'd won a fight or some thing. You know like "Ha, Ha told you so" ?

First off she didn't even want the insemination to happen. She said that right off the bat once she saw how many follicles I had waiting to release. I said I'd ovulate on Sunday (thinking my cycle was the same as usual) and so SHE scheduled me for Saturday IUI because she said some times we don't know our bodies and ovulation happens sooner.

Long story short I'm at odds with the clinic and the only other one is 3 hours away. They should have told me Clomid makes your cycle longer. But know one did. I'm not even sure if they realize it now. She even mentioned giving it to me AGAIN next cycle since it works so well. I didn't scream like I wanted to I calmly said 'or if I don't use clomid then I'll just produce on egg' (you know like I don't really understand what's going on and need her advice......PUKE) She was like 'Yes, that's right.'

I do not like her. I haven't told my husband about the troubles I'm having with the place. He has enough going on where he is.

So, I'm suppose to call them on cd1 as far as I know to start all over again. I just don't know if I can mentally do it knowing how they operate now. I do know after this first cycle what should work. All I need is the IUI and a ovulation trigger shot since the clomid will still be in my system next month.

Okay, I'm done ranting. Its so easy to let people get your goat.

I'm going to try and stay positive. I really want to have a child and these people have the toos to do it. So, I'm going to have to suck it up until I get pregnant or my DH comes home to do the job himself.

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Dhs computer habbit drives me nuts i cant get him to understand how mutch it hurts when he chouses it over me. he was really good about spending time with me when he first got back from iraq and now he has sliped back into the habbit of playing every free minute he has.(at least it feels that way he plays a tone even in the morning before he goes to work) and the fact that he is sutch an butt in the mornings bacause he isant getting enough sleep is driving me nuts im almost tempted to tell him to get up on his own if he doesent get up when the alarm goes off than its his problem and he can suffer the punishment when he is late to work. but im too nice and cant seem to get my self to do it. sorry to ramble all that im just as frustrated with that as i am about TTC. but ya im glad we still got to try this cycle i dident want to miss out on one. i dident know that clomid made your cycles longer that wouldnt be good for me my cycles are already between 34 and 38 days id hate for them to get longer we only have a few months left before Dh gets out and i louse my inshurance and wont be able to do and of this specitality stuff. I hope you have better luck next cycle i dont know if i could deal with the off ice or not