Appointment this morning sucked. He found two follicles, one was 14 and one was 16. He said they were not as big as he would like, so he wants to look at them again tomorrow. But the big problem was the CM. He looked at it under a microscope and said the sperm were just sitting there, not able to move at all. It's too thick. And at this point, he said there isn't really anything we can do to make it thin enough to make it count for this cycle, as I should ovulate really soon. He wants to do an IUI. - in two days. I'm going to be honest - I'm having a panic attack about this. We were going to do three medicated cycles before talking about any kind of procedure, and now I'm scared to do that because he said time was not on our side.
And add to that the fact that he said my left ovary is actually stuck under my uterus. He had a really hard time finding it on ultrasound because it wasn't where it was supposed to be. Scar tissue from the c-section, probably.
It is difficult for me to explain just how much I hate this. The ultrasound was very painful, for some reason. Probably because he was searching in there for the missing ovary for such a long time. He asked me a question about my c-section (whether or not it was rushed) and then cut me off before I could answer him. We never got back to that subject. I'm beginning to feel like maybe this is not the doctor for us. Another thing is, he kept doing the ultrasound when the nurse left the room to prepare the slide of CM so he could check out the sperm. I was very uncomfortable with it just being me and him in the room without anyone else there.
Rather than going straight for IUI without any preparation time, we have decided to wait and see if anything happens this cycle. I did a bunch of research and found that drinking lots of water, avoiding dairy and limiting caffeine can help thin CM, so I did that all day and it really did seem to help! I'm not putting a huge amount of faith in this cycle, but I'm not giving up hope yet either.
It is difficult for me to explain just how much I hate this. The ultrasound was very painful, for some reason. Probably because he was searching in there for the missing ovary for such a long time. He asked me a question about my c-section (whether or not it was rushed) and then cut me off before I could answer him. We never got back to that subject. I'm beginning to feel like maybe this is not the doctor for us. Another thing is, he kept doing the ultrasound when the nurse left the room to prepare the slide of CM so he could check out the sperm. I was very uncomfortable with it just being me and him in the room without anyone else there.
Rather than going straight for IUI without any preparation time, we have decided to wait and see if anything happens this cycle. I did a bunch of research and found that drinking lots of water, avoiding dairy and limiting caffeine can help thin CM, so I did that all day and it really did seem to help! I'm not putting a huge amount of faith in this cycle, but I'm not giving up hope yet either.
This afternoon, I had a faint line on my OPK. I'm hoping this means I'll have a very good line by tomorrow. If I can get a positive result tomorrow, that means I'll ovulate either Wednesday or Thursday. That gives me a few more days to hopefully sort out the CM problem. So not the best appointment and I'm still a little iffy about this doctor because of it, but there's still hope. There were two good follicles and a few more that were too small - that means the Clomid did work. Now it's up to timing and God. Please, God - let this happen so that I don't have to go through any more of this.
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