I finally have concrete news!

I mean, as concrete as things ever seem to get for me. I spoke with my nurse today and she said that I was good to start Provera whenever I'm ready, I just need to come in for bloodwork the day before I want to start it. So, I am trying to work around DH's work travel schedule, and am planning on going in on 4/20 and starting the Provera 4/21. Then I will begin Follistim and have an HcG shot to trigger. The nurse is going to call in the meds for me so that my insurance can begin the pre-approval process. I am so so excited because I have real information now. I feel like something is officially happening, which is great because ever since my father in law found out that DH and I are trying and having IF problems he is always asking us if we have news and what's going on. I have seriously never seen a grown man so interested in female reproduction :) My sister in law told me that after he found out that we were trying he was so excited that it was all he talked about that night. I really hope that we get PG sometime soon because I can't wait to see the look on his face. Plus, there's my mother, who has specially requested that the baby share her birthday...sure mom, no problem, let me just talk to my ovaries about that. All in all I am glad that we have parents to support us, I think it would be too difficult without them.

So anyways, that's what's going on right now...hopefully insurance approves my meds. If there's anything I've learned from IF, it's that insurance companies suck.

Oh yeah and an update about my NCAA brackets. This is how well I did, my final four were Wake Forest, Pitt, UNC, and Memphis with Pitt and Memphis in the finals and Memphis winning. Well, Wake lost in the first round and Memphis was the next to fall, then Pitt. UNC was still in last I checked but I think its pretty safe to say that I didn't win the pool :)

Need a change

I'm not sure what kind of change (baby??) but I feel like I am stuck in a rut. I spend so much time "killing time" instead of enjoying it. I just feel like everythign has become so routine and boring. I guess that's part of being an adult. I am really looking forward to my vacation so hopefully I'll be able to snap out of it once I am on that plane.

I took my 2 pugs for a walk last night. We went 30 minutes at a VERY leisurely pace and you would have thought that I had just made them run a marathon! I seriously thought that one of the pugs, LaFawnduh, wasn't going to make it. I thought I might have to carry her! We did make it home but they both passed out. I know pugs aren't athletic dogs, but seriously, this was sad. I guess I'll have to get my own workout at the gym since its clear that those bitches aren't going to help me. :)

A random string of junk

This post is mostly mental junk. I have started metformin again, which is making me sick. I take 750 mg at night with dinner. It is extended release which is both a good and bad thing I think. I don't get as sick all at once but I end up feeling crappy after dinner and through most of the next morning. By lunch I feel great. It is an endless cycle and I get about 5-6 hours per day of feeling good. I am getting worn down with it. Also, obviously my ideal schedule isn't going to work out. So now my plan is to try to time it so that my IUI is done the week before I leave for vacation. That way most of my 2ww will be on a cruise and we may have something to celebrate. And if its a BFN, then I will really need to drink!!

On a completely unrelated note, I did my first b-ball brackets ever today. I am in good shape so far (knock on wood). I have Wake Forest, Purdue, North Carolina and Memphis in my final four (I think). I have Memphis winning so I am keeping my fingers crossed!!!

Waiting, waiting, waiting...

I feel like that's all I do!! I am currently waiting for my AMH results (I don't know exactly what this is but it's a blood test that indicates fertility and can correlate to PCOS). Then I will wait for them to call in my Metformin (which is a diabetic drug that regulates insulin. My insulin is fine but my RE said that there is some evidence to suggest that being on Met reduces the potential for overstimulation on injectibles.). Then I have to be on that for 2 weeks at least. Then I'll be waiting for Brad to get finished with his work trips. Then I will be on Provera for 10 days only to wait for AF to start. And then, finally, I will be able to start stims! That will begin 6 weeks from Thursday (hopefully). Soooo, in the meantime I have all of this waiting to do. I feel like a kid waiting for Christmas to come. I think that I will call my RE nurse right now, so I can wait for her to call me back to give me my blood test results... :)

Super Excited!

So Brad and I met with out RE yesterday thinking that we were having an IVF consult and then we ended up somewhere else entirely! My RE had previously said that I probably wasn't a good candidate for IUI with injecible medication because I would probably over-respond and end up with a cancelled cycle. However, he seemed to be a lot more positive this time (maybe because he had some med records that he didn't have last time, or maybe because we'd had a lot of bloodwork in the meantime). He said it was up to us but that we can do an IUI with the lowest level of follistim (50 ius I think) and try that to see how I respond. He did caution me that my cycle could still be cancelled if I over-respond. Since we were going to try to do IVF in June, we want to work this IUI in immediately so that it doesn't push us back. I really hope this works and I am really hopeful. I will start Provera tomorrow to bring on AF and then it's on!

I have already begun thinking about things like: If I start Provery tomorrow, I should get AF on March 15th; that means I can start stims March 17th and if I stim for 7 days (I am assuming I will be a quick responder) then I would trigger on the 24th and have my IUI on the 25th. That would make my EDD about a week before Christmas! I know that this is kind of silly, since I am thinking about step 100 and we are on step 1, but this is the first time I have felt truely hopeful.

One thing that I am worried about is that Brad and I have a vacation planned for 2 weeks at the end of May. I would be around 11 weeks at the start of the vacation so I might not feel the best but I think I can do it! Besides, if the IUI doesn't work then I will really need a vacation anyways :) I am trying not to get ahead of myself, but I am so excited. I just hope that i am not setting myself up for a fall...