My Left Ovary is a Lazy Bitch

I’ve named her Kara after our lazy dog. The break is over. We’re trying again this month with 100mg of Cl0.mid on days 3 to 7. Today was my day 11 scan. One 16mm follicle on my right ovary & several tiny ones on my left that won’t amount to anything.I’m waiting to hear about my E 2 but the nurse thinks I’ll probably trigger tomorrow. S is in town all week so he’ll be available for as many insems as I want.

Here Goes Nothing

Insem #1 will be tonight. S will deliver the goods around 7:15. Insem #2 is scheduled for tomorrow after work and #3 is Friday before work.

New Plan

E 2 was only 99. NP suggested tr!gger Wednesday night. Instead I”m going to trigger early Thurs am (while using OPKs to make sure I’m not going to ovulate on my own earlier than that). Insem before work Thurs, late Thurs night and Friday after work. That will be 0, 14, and 35 hours post trigger. My donor is so incredibly accomodating that I’m sure he’d take time off work if I asked him but I don’t want to. I really can’t take any more time off work this week either. My numerous appointments have been noticed. My supervisor asked today if everything was OK. She knows about the hyp0thyr0id and the P C O S so I just told her I’ve been seeing an endocrinologist to get things straightened out. Only a half truth, right?

The Plan for Try #2

Cl0m!d starts tomorrow (CD3) and ends Monday 20July.

Friday 24July (CD11) 8:30 am Ultrasound & Bloodwork. Tr!gger will be timed based on these results.

Friday 24July (CD11)  5pm Acupuncture

Insem #1 same night as tr!gger

Insem #2 12-18 hours post tr!gger

Insem #3 24-30 hours post tr!gger

Does that look good to you?

And Now We Wait

We insemmed last night. I woke up in the middle of the night with a fever. I don’t know if it was related at all. We were both sick Friday night so it may have been a remanant of that. I’m pretty sure I ovulated this morning and I’ve been crampy all afternoon.

Our past waits have been overshadowed by a vacation, a death in the family, graduation, and a move and all went by very quickly. We have nothing to distract us during this one so I expect it to be excruciating.

Triggered

I gave myself the shot last night. It didn’t hurt until this morning. I was told it was a subcutaneous injection and the powdered medicine that I had to mix said intramuscular. I hope that’s OK and doesn’t cause a problem. My os was slightly open last night, a bit more open this afternoon. We’re going to check it again tonight and, based on what we see, inseminate tonight or in the morning.

CD 1

Today is CD 1. It seems the universe has made a decision for us. There’s no way to do an insem with S this month. Business trips & vacations took care of that. We can’t get an appointment with the lawyer where we will both be in town before I would have to insem this month. As much as I trust him, I don’t want to start shooting up his swimmers without a mutually agreed upon donor agreement in place.

I still have until close of business tomorrow to have the spermcicles shipped and not have to pay the expedited fee to get it here in time. We’re still debating. I have my prescriptions filled and will be taking my Cl0.mid with me on my business trip in case I need to start taking it Wednesday night. I’d have my ultrasound next Thursday to see how things look in there.

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I’m still waiting

I haven’t gotten a positive OPK or a high reading on my monitor but this evening I had gobs and gobs of EWCM. I’m going to take another OPK tonight and have R check my cerv1x when she gets home from work.

I hope to ovulate soon. If nothing happens by Monday I am going to send the vial back. I can’t wait much longer than that or the tank will be too warm to keep the swimmers frozen.

Her interview went really well and she should know something Monday.

Waiting…and calculating (edited)

We’re on each side of the wait. I’m still waiting for signs of an impending egg. I’m still low on the monitor and a very faint line on the OPKs. No temp rise so I haven’t missed anything. I have had such beautiful cycles (except my last cycle) since August and things have to get all screwed up now that there are 23 chromosomes in cold storage waiting to meet my little egg.

I think our timing was beautiful for R. Very positive OPK Monday afternoon, Monday evening insem, temp rise (judging by her average follicular phase temps from when she was charting) Tuesday morning and the line was gone on the OPK by Tuesday night.

We each told one friend what we’re up to this month. She told someone from work and I told one of our best friends from PA.  Everyone we’ve told (mostly the internets) thinks we’re crazy for even risking the chance of both of us getting pregnant. To set you all at ease and because I’m a big dork (have you forgotten this?) I calculated the probability that we both get pregnant this cycle. I combed through medical journals for some statistics. In the studies I read 76% of women with PC0S ovulated on a combination of Cl.0.mid and Met.f0.rmin, of those women 30% conceived (10% of those pregnancies were multiples), and 55% of those pregnancies resulted in live births.  So right there we’re looking at a 12% chance that I would get pregnant and carry to term. This study participants in this study were het.er0sexual married women having unprotected intercourse every 2-3 days. Taking ICI with frozen into account that 12% chance drops to 4-6% (10-15% conception rate as opposed to 30% conception rate).

R’s chances are better. She’s very healthy, doesn’t have PC0S, and has very regular cycles with glaringly obvious signs of ovulation. We know she ovulated. She has a 10-15% chance of conceiving on each cycle with frozen. Her miscarriage rate is only 25% (US national average). That means she has 7.5-11.25% chance of getting a baby out of this cycle.

Now the chance of both of us getting pregnant and staying pregnant long enough to get a baby out of it is about 0.3-0.7%. There’s a 0.03-0.07% chance that I’d have multiples and she’s have a singleton and 0.0003-0.0007% chance that we’d both have multiples. I’m ok with those odds.

I should really step away from MedLine and put my calculator down.

On another note, R has an interview for a FT position with my company’s parent company. It’s not in her field but everything in her field is part of a hiring freeze (state, county, & city government). It’s full time work with decent pay and affordable benefits. Right now she’s working part time and her monthly net pay is 1/3 of what I would pay each month to add her to my insurance. Wish her luck!

ETA (because someone asked) the chance that either of us would get and stay pregnant is 11.5-17.25%.