My story: I had been trying to get pregnant for 13 months and was going for bloodwork to start Clomid in March when to my delight, I learned I was pregnant!!! My hormone levels were low, so they retested a few days later and the numbers had dropped, so they determined I was having a miscarriage. I was to wait it out for my body to lose the baby and retest my blood every week to make sure my hormones leveled back to zero. On week 3 of my testing, my numbers jumped back up, a sure sign of an ectopic (tubal) pregnancy. I went for more tests, and they determined the baby had implanted in my left tube but had died, so my body needed to expel it. They gave me a dreadful medication called "methotrexate" and I was to wait. Two days later, my pain got so intense, I went to the ER. Turns out the methotrexate had not stopped the growth of the placenta in time and it ruptured my tube. I had emergency surgery on April 12th and continued to monitor my hormone levels. In early May, I was "zeroed" out hormone-wise.
I had to start Provera at the end of May to get my period going again. It started and I am on day 6 of my cycle. On day 3, I started Clomid to make me ovulate and hopefully achieve pregnancy. I will take Clomid days 3 through 7, 50 mg per day. On day 12 (next Tuesday), I am to go in for an ultrasound to see if the clomid has matured an egg. If so, it looks like I will ovulate and have the chance of getting pregnant.
After my pregnancy loss at 7 weeks, my surgery, and all that I've been through, I'm very scared and nervous about all of this. I want so badly to become a mom and soon (I will be 32 on Friday), but I don't want to set myself up for all the heartbreak again.
Has anyone else been where I am? I'd like to hear your stories...successes, non-successes, feelings, thoughts, etc. This is such a great place for cake info, but I need other support now too, and this seems like just the place to get it!!!
Thanks to everyone!
Hi, sorry for all your trouble. I myself haven't been through it, but my sister has. She was on Clomid for 6-9 months with no luck. The second to last time it kind of worked, but she started her period. Her trouble is, is that she has eggs, but they aren't dropping. I even offered to donate my eggs to her. They are now going to try invitro (which after finding out she has eggs, they should have done it 6 months ago). My heart goes out to people who can't have children and want them so bad and then you get people who couldn't care less about them and keep popping them out.
Hope things work out for you soon. By the way, my sister is 36.
I have a very nice story to share, hopefully you will be able to understand because my english is BAD.
I have a friend that went to all lot of surgeries in order to become pregnant, she even had an ectopic preganacy. For years she was very deppressed and she decide to adopt a child, but for some reasons she didn't. She started to be deppress againg, and I told her to trust God if for some reason she had a lot of problems adopting a child is because God had someting better for her,
Well, that happened in january 2000
In december 31 2000 we were working a nigth shift in a factory and we were playing about our wishes for the following year
She said she wanted a big screen tv
And I said you have to wish big, pic someting harder to get
And she said I am going to get pregnant
And we started laughing and we ate our 12 grapes at 12:00( a tradition that I always do at new years eve)
I told her to pray to her guardian angel(I know I have one that help me alot believe me)
So I gave her one of my books about guardian angels.
THE BIG SORPRISE HER WISHES CAME TRUE IN 2001 SHE HAD A GIRL AND THE FOLLOWING YEAR A BOY
Today she has two kids one girl and one boy their names are
Angela Esperanza
Jose Angel
She named them like that because I told her if she become pregnant she had to put an angel name to them
And guess what I am their Godmother
BELIEVE IN GOD AND PRAY TO YOUR ANGEL GUARDIAN
rsaun,
I'm sorry for what you are going through. I know what it feels like since my DH and I have been dealing with it for over 5 years. I know the sadness when you receive more bad news and your friends/family announce their pregancies. I understand the fear of trying a new procedure and hoping that "this time" it will work. I also understand the pain when it doesn't work. I was on Clomid last year and will be trying it again next month. We are also planning an IUI for next month since I had a negative PC test earlier this week. I don't know how much farther we want to go with the treatments. I think after a couple IUI attempts we will be done and look more seriously at other options. I wish you the best of luck with all of this. Please PM me anytime if you need someone to talk to...I know how nice it is to have support from others that are in a similar situation.
I feel that I need to apologize for maybe being insensitive. I had posted a thread complaining about being pregnant with a little girl, since I already had three girls. I also have one boy. I'm very thankful for all my kids and can't wait to get this one in the fall.
I'm sorry for those of you who have trouble getting pregnant. I can't understand your pain, because I've never had to deal with that. But, before I had any of my children, I did have two misscarraiges that were very hard to deal with and wondered if I would ever get to have a child, and for me it happened.
I wish all of you the best, and will pray for God to bless you!
Sherri
HI,
I typed out a big long message to you but it disappeared into cyberspace I guess.
Anyway, I wanted to share that I too know exactly how you feel because I went through over 3 yrs of infertility myself. I had more than a fair share of DR's, testing, meds, surgery, pain, stress and crying about it all.
I also wanted to share that I manage an online fertility support group for women. You are more than welcome to come check it out. It's called Fertility Sisters. http://groups.msn.com/FertilitySisters
I can't tell you how much it's meant to have a place to go where people "get it" and understand what you're going through. ( That is actually why I created the group.)
Good luck to you!! Don't ever give up!!
KimAZ
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