Meeting with the RE

Today was our second meeting with the RE. He now has a month and a half of numbers, data, etc. With most of my results being ok or good, he ruled out premature menopause and ovarian failure. He told me at this point to just disregard my previous FSH numbers.

With twelve follies and 2 eggs released, he said that this was normal for my age. A lot of this was said 'normal for my age'. It made me feel like we should have started for kids years ago. He wants me to take this month off, no Clomid and then really no tests. I still need to go in for a progesterone test and he wants me to do an HSG, either this cycle or next.

Also, as I am 4 days late (I can feel I am not PG and feel AF coming) but they did a beta anyway.

So, now the plan is, take this cycle off, then the next cycle start Clomid and then we will do an IUI. Again good news my insurance covers this but it's not too expensive without... about $350 for each IUI and they usually do it twice around your LH surge. So we will start this sometime in July.

The RE said that if this doesn't work (it will increase our % to about 40%), then we will re-group and figure out what to try next. Sounds like we would probably do the IUI for a couple of cycles.

It was a really quick visit and we didn't really get to ask a lot of questions as he was off to surgery. The NP answered a lot of the questions and sometimes I feel they are just as knowledgeable as the RE, if not more!! She was saying that with normal fertility, etc, it's only a 20% chance each time of actually conceiving. Crazy to think about.

Overall, the new was what I expected and nothing to new. Just need to arrange an HSG, to flush my tubes and check for blockages. Now something else to worry about.