WELL. needless to say the past even 12 hours have been very interesting. We have waited 1.5 months for this appointment. To top it all off, the day before, on my EXTRA day of work to pay for IVF....someone rear ends me on my way home. Just faaaaaab. Couldn't have come at a better time! The worst part was I was on my way to target to buy tests before going to a friends, even though I knew deep down I wasn't pregnant this cycle. Turns out, I got day 1 today. I should have known, all i've eaten is carbs for the last 5 days. Now I'm day 1 and so sore from this accident. Awesome.
Anyways. We met with our doctor today to basically go over all the scary things, sign consent, and basically give the official "go-ahead". I am going to take a month off. No femara or birth control and basically no trying or worry. It's crazy to think in anywhere from a month to a month and half we can start our IVF cycle. I am waiting for a nurse to call me to get things going. There was a lot of information, a lot of risks, and a lot of things you may not think about. There is a 50% for us this will work and I will get pregnant. There is a 25% chance I will miscarry. You can have several good embryos or none. It's such a gamble. There is also a higher risk with me having PCOS that I could have issues with OHSS (ovarian hyperstimuation syndrome) and the cycle can be cancelled. We just have to take it as it goes and hope for the best. One thing we didn't expect was the results of the Kruger test. Motility was 70%, 50 million count, but only 2.5% for shape (which is low). We will be doing ICSIS which is where they inject a single sperm into the egg to fertilize as a posed to putting the two together in a dish and letting it naturally do it's "thing"- ya know? We made our deposit and paid for counsel and the learning stuff with the nurse which was $700 today.
It's getting very real and all of a sudden happening "fast". We have been waiting over a year and still have a loooooong time to find out if we are successful or not. Fingers crossed. Now to go lay down in the stretchiest pants I own.
It's getting very real and all of a sudden happening "fast". We have been waiting over a year and still have a loooooong time to find out if we are successful or not. Fingers crossed. Now to go lay down in the stretchiest pants I own.