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bubbly1973's IUI online diary

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bubbly1973 · 20/04/2005 13:45

i am doing this online diary in the hope that it will help anyone who is going through it or are about to go through it. Oneday it will be hidden away in the archives and will be found by someone who is desperatly seeking information or another womans experience and find this diary helpful..if i can help one person then i will be happy

please feel free to post on this thread, if you have any comments or you just want to give me support id be most grateful

so here we go firstly something about me and dh

we had iui done a few years ago, conceived but sadly ended in a miscarriage,
went for our 2nd go straight away and conceived and now we have a beautiful little boy who is going to be 3 in june.

My periods are very irregular, anything from 35 to 45 days. I have cysts on my ovaries so am not ovulating, i thought after having a baby this would correct itself, but unfortunately it hasnt

I am 31, i am a smoker, non vegetarian, weigh nearly 8stone
dh is 32, non smoker, non vegetarian, his sperms are not extremly high in numbers but sufficient enough

iui explained

right so will post this and begin my diary....

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Maddison · 20/04/2005 14:06

Just wanted to say good luck with everything bubbly and hope it isn't too long before you are joining one of the ante natal threads. Fingers crossed for you

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bubbly1973 · 20/04/2005 13:56

day one..been to the clinic today the drugs they have given me are as follows

suprecur (suprefact) 0.3ml (to stop premature ovulation)
menopur 75iu (to stimulate the ovaries to produce eggs)

the nurses were lovely, its a bit daunting trying to remember how to take the injections, but i remember feeling like that before.

they wrote down for me how much i need to take, and showed me how to take the injections to refresh my memory

blinkin cost me £175 for those prescriptions

we couldnt have it done on nhs as the guidelines are that if you have one child then your not eligible for free treatment

i been panicking all morning as i thought af was appearing yesterday as i had brown watery discharge so rang them up to book appointment to come in for injections

then i woke up this morning and arrrgghhh no period, but hour before i had to leave for appt, there she came

when i got to the hospital i told them af didnt go full on till this morning so they have classed today as day one.

i been scared that they would turn me away as in a fortnight its bank holiday and they are shut so if i needed to be inseminated then it would be no good

last month they couldnt do it cos of easter holidays, i was gutted, been waiting since september, and with one thing and another they havent been able to start the treatment, thankfully they can this time, nurse said its just one holiday so that dont matter whereas easter they were off friday and monday

right well i am waiting for a call at 2.00 to confirm that the blood which they took off me this morning is fine, and that hormone levels are okay to start treatment.

so 5 minutes and i will know definitly

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