Saturday, April 30, 2011

Round 2

So I went to the doctor yesterday to see if I was ready for the trigger shot. Turns out, I had one main follicle, two minor follicles, and a bunchof little follicles. Everybody kept commenting on how "beautiful" my cycle was. The sonographer, the nurse, everybody. They gave the the ovidrel in the office and scheduled the IUI for this morning. 8:00 this morning to be exact. Early but we made it work. Unfortunately, Dr. Barnett was not there since today is a Saturday, but his co-worker Dr. Ku was there. He said the cycle was great for me but that D's count is still low. He has all normal numbers except for the motile sperm. Ideally, the number should be above 10 million. Last cycle the number was 2.4. He has been taking a multivitamin which supposedly should help. Today, the number was 2.8. Dr. Ku recommended that if this IUI didn't work to move on to IVF. That is what we were thinking anyway and what Dr. Barnett recommended. The IUI actually kind of hurt this time. He told me that it is normal because the uterus cramps as soon as he gets into it. Then, he said that we should meet with Dr. Barnett before this cycle is over so that we can get ready for IVF if needed. It would take at least a couple cycles to do. The good thing is that the total cost is $8,000. Our insurance will cover part of it. The front desk girl is going to call our insurance company on Monday and find out how much is covered. Meds are also covered. As soon as they left the room, I started crying. Does this mean that we go from the category of "unexplained infertility" to "male factor infertility"? And why was his first test so high (11 million)!? I felt awful for crying in front of Peter. I do not blame him by any means and I would not him to cry in front of me if the problem was with me. I guess I just didn't really expect that. Also, I'm wondering if this means that IVF would be our only option any time we wanted to have another kid. We would have to save up for years before we could have each kid! We could spend half of that to adopt but I don't know if that is what we should do.
Hopefully this cycle works and I won't have to worry about it for a while, but I have a feeling that we will be doing IVF in just a few short months. I feel calm but kind of overwhelmed. I don't really know what I feel right now.

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