We got our appointment with the specialist moved up to today. I went in really nervous that he was going to tell us nothing was going to work except ivf which we can't afford but instead he's decided to do a super aggressive IUI cycle. He wants us to find a new donor, he doesn't like the inconsistent numbers we were getting from the guy we were using and he wants to take me off all pills and just do shots, but a lot of them. In previous cycles I'd do Femara days 3-7 with gonal f 75 iu on 7 9 and 11. Now he wants me to come in on cd3 for a baseline ultrasound and do shots of gonal f 150 iu every day till they tell me to stop. He thinks the Femara was screwing up my estrogen levels and says this is the compromise since ivf is out of reach for us. Luckily we still have a little of the donated meds left. He gave us another cartridge which should be enough for one more cycle so we just have to pay for the extra monitoring. Before an iui cycle cost about $1k not including sperm, now we're looking at about $1,750 so it will be a stretch but hopefully we'll just need the one.
I'm off to look for a new donor, hope you all are doing well.
Merry Christmas!
Wahooo!! You're back in the game! :) SO happy for you, sweetheart. Remember...I still have one cartridge of Gonal F left in my fridge, just begging to be used! It expires sometime in 2012, not sure when. Let me know if you need it; email me doozie_rice@yahoo.com. <3
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