This month marks 20 months of TTC. I conceived Johnny after 22 months and prayed it wouldn’t take that long this time so I have 2 months to get that prayer answered.
This month marks 6 cycles of my body working correctly. Granted, this month was a bit off, but I can take it if I do ovulate on my own. I went for so long without doing that… for every month that I do, I feel some sense of accomplishment. I love the metformin for giving me a normal cycle again. I hate that I need to take meds… and that it took so many years to be diagnosed with PCOS, but am so thankful that there is a medicine out there that helps me.
This is the second month of using the fertility monitor again. I went through a box (normally 3 months worth) in just 2 months because of my long cycle this month, so that stinks. The test strips are not cheap. I will be buying more if AF comes this month. It took me about 7 or 8 months using the monitor to conceive Johnny but hopefully won’t take that long this time around.
Here is our plan as of now… After 6 months of normal cycles with the fertility monitor, I will go back on Clomid. I am not going to go the route of ultrasounds and trigger shots this next time. I just want to take the pills and let my body work naturally. We tried that with Johnny but the side effects were too much for me to handle at the time. Now that I stay home, it won’t be so bad. I am very hopeful that I will get pregnant before those 6 months of cycles is up. I don’t want to have to take Clomid again… I hated it. It made me crazy! We will though, if necessary.
It has been about a year or so since I have gone the crazy Clomid route but I think the break was necessary. After 5 months of Clomid, ultrasounds, trigger shots and negative pregnancy tests, I was spent. The last month on it, I even received a trigger shot and still didn’t ovulate so it was time to take a break. My doctor told me my only choice at that point was IUI which we can not afford since Mike’s insurance is so horrible. I talked to my doc and started Metformin after that… and now my body is acting somewhat normal. yay!
So, that is an update of where things are right now. I feel bad talking about this because I know my friends are sick of hearing about it. This consumes my life though. I can’t forget.
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