Update from August 2010-December 2010

Wow... I can't believe it has been so long since I have updated this blog.  It has been a hard year and a half since my last update that much I can say.  I am now wishing that I had kept up with this blog so that I had something to look back on and remember everything that we have gone through.  I will try to recap as best as I can...

August 2010

My niece turned one :) She continues to be the apple of my eye.  I so adore her smile and everything she does. 

We also began to get tested and "officially" entered the infertility realm.  I went back to my OB and set up an appointment with an urologist to have hubby checked out too.  I had what is called a HSG... this test really sucked and the radiologist stated that my tubes were clear and everything seemed to be okay (remember this later because everything wasn't okay).  Hubby came back borderline (thought to be because of a fever he had),, and a second test was set for October.  OB said that we are okay to start the first type of fertility drugs!

September 2010

I don't ovulate.. and I must induce my period.  I start the first round of fertility drug (clomid).  I am at a pretty low dose to start.  The medication didn't work very well.. I still didn't ovulate until CD26 :(  But at least I DID ovulate... we don't get pregnant.

October 2010

Hubby goes back to the urologist and has his second test.. it is okay but it was discovered that he has some hormonal issues going on and starts to take clomid at a low dose to see if it will help him.  My OB is out on medical leave and doesn't increase the dose for my clomid, so we get proactive and call the fertility specialist (RE) and set up an appointment for Nov.  In the mean time I take the second round of clomid.  

November 2010

Ovulation comes a little sooner at CD 24 but still not great... we don't get pregnant. We go to the RE and he reviews our tests and have hubby take a third test.  His third test comes back in the normal range of things.  However, upon review of my HSG test (from August).. he thinks he sees a septum at the top of my uterus which is a birth defect.. and he wants to do more ultrasounds (2D and 3D to see what is going on) and blood work.

December 2010

When I went in for the test they were not able to do the 3D test as the machine was broken, so we were given the option for me to have surgery to fix the septate or try two more rounds of a higher dose of the clomid while being monitored by them... we opted to try two more cycles and then reschedule the test if we were still not pregnant.. We won't be able to start until next year with the medications, so we decide we are going to take the holidays off. Go figure I ovulate the earliest ever at CD18 the week before Christmas.

To be continued with 2011