Thursday, July 13, 2000

Call us crazy but....



We are going to try again...the first cycle after the miscarriage.  I know, I know...a lot of the doctors say that you should wait at least one cycle before trying to conceive again....but it is just so hard to do that after finally achieving pregnancy.

We also have concerns that this might take us a long time to conceive again (if ever). Paul's sperm counts are very very poor (5 million/ml, 38% motility, and antibodies to his own sperm to boot!). It was a miracle that we conceived on our own int he first place...so it is probably unlikely that we can do it again.

Our RE has decided that I will start Clomid on my next cycle, as during my fertility blood work, my progesterone came back at 8.0 at 8 dpo last month (unbeknown to anyone I was pregnant that month ) and that is not very good. However, the RE felt that rather than jumping to the conclusion that I had low progesterone, that it should be viewed as an indication of a "poor ovulation". I did some research and found evidence to support this theory. (and I did miscarry that pregnancy) The Clomid is supposed to help to produce a better ovulation. However, the RE wouldn't give it to me this cycle so I am a little afraid that it will happen again.

When Paul called and asked them for Clomid for this cycle, the nurse told us that this was not a "period" that I was having, that it was a "miscarriage" and that we had to wait at least one cycle before trying again. She went on to say that after I have a normal period, she is sure that the doctor would "let us try next cycle." EXCUSE ME!!!!  He will LET us try next cycle. I am not even going to go into that right now.

Anyway, I am on cycle day 18 of this cycle (if you count the first day of my miscarriage as cd1). I got a positive OPK yesterday morning and we BD last night. My temperature still hasn't risen yet...so we will see.

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