Ok. So here it goes again. Let me start with the latest news.I got an e-mail back in November that the doctor I was seeing has decided to leave the practice. It also said that Dr. Sher who is at the Las Vegas office was coming to STL to train another doctor but would be taking over the STL office in the mean time. So now I am seeing Dr. Dayal. I have seen her about 4 times now and I love her. She has been through the infertility journey herself so now I am seeing a Dr. who can actually relate to what I am feeling and going through.
We decided to start trying again in January. I called my doctor and they started me on provera to have a cycle. I was put on follistim, which are injections for 5 days. I went in for an Ultrasound to check my follicles on January 30. We got some of the best news, it was working! I had one follicle measuring 10 mm, and the lining of my uterus was thickening. All good signs. My doctor put me on 2 more days of injections and I went back on Friday to re-check my follicles. The one that was measuring 10mm had grown to almost 11mm. Not such a good sign, but she was willing to push me as far as my body would allow. The doctor was puzzled at this point because I should have been responding almost too well to the injections. She said there were only two reasons I shouldn't be. 1. IF i've already been through menopause, which isn't the case because I have tons of follies, and 2. IF my androgen levels were elevated. After looking at my blood work she had seen that they had been so she put me on a pill to try and bring those levels down enough to allow the meds to work the way they were supposed too. I continued injections along with the other med through the weekend and went back in the following Monday, February 4th to make a final decision. It was not the news we were hoping for. My follicles had not grown to the size they needed to be in order for us to continue with the IUI. So that cycle was canceled. It was very disappointing. We were expecting it to work this time since we got past that first Ultrasound. I think the doctor was just as let down as we were. She said to call her in the next two weeks when I started another cycle and they could get me going again and in the mean time she would look back at my chart and see if there was something else we could do.
So now I'm counting down the days until I can call them in order to start the provera again to get another cycle going. Well as it turns out I had to call them, but not to get help starting another cycle. I had started one on my own this time. So I called my doctor on Tuesday and I went in for an Ultrasound on Wednesday (2/13) to get a baseline. I didn't have any cysts on my ovaries. Good sign! We are trying a new cocktail. I am now on metformin to help bring down my androgen levels, and instead of doing injections I am on famara which is a pill. It's similar to clomid which I have been on before with no success, but she said sometimes women will respond better to famara. Soooooooo.....I go back on Wednesday February 20 for an ultrasound to see what's going on with my follicles. I am feeling really good about this. We have gotten further in our journey in the past month than we ever have before. We are praying hard, God knows the desire of our hearts and we just pray that this is His will for us. I feel something coming, I know in my heart something big is about to happen. We have a big appointment coming up, So we are asking for lots of prayers at this time.
