Hi all, I've been trying to reduce my time on MN and it became a little too obsessive and was making me feel worse rather than helping so a bit behind on things and apologies if I haven't responded to any messages for a while.
@Lily1990 I'm really sorry to hear the retained tissue's going to delay TTC for you, it's super frustrating when all you want to do is get back on it as soon as possible. Sounds positive at least that it should clear without surgery so fingers crossed for you that you're over this stage soon.
@HopefulH I feel your frustration so much! A year is a long time to be on a treatment that's supposed to help you getting pregnant faster and you haven't been getting pregnant at all. All these meds and clinic visits are expensive for it to just end up in BFN every time. Have you been doing superovulation back to back for a year or just immunes? But yeah, after 3 months of nothing, despite responding well to Letrozole, texbook timed intercourse and even hyfosy with my last cycle and nothing by BFNs, I decided something about that protocol must stop me from getting pregnant. I wish there was an easy answer as I know the immunes are supposed to help and maybe it's more just the SO, but the reality is for me it was too much money to keep throwing at things. Also the pred is messing with my body and cycle even taking it for just 10 days at the time. So whether I cannot get pregnant because of the immunes, SO or something completely different, the point is if I can't get pregnant then there's no point in keep wasting money from me. If it happens it happens and when it does, I will contact CRP for more pred and pregnancy intralipids, but I can't afford all this pre-conception stuff for nothing.
I hope you can make a plan for what to do next and find serenity and confidence in that whatever it is, it's the right thing for you.
@VenusStarr thanks for checking in. I strangely feel a lot better and 'lighter' since I decided to ditch any pre-conception treatment whatsoever (well, still taking supplements and low dose aspirin, but that's it). I'm not even planning to take Cyclogest or Pred unless I get a PPT, which I may never do anymore, but a lot of the pressure and costs are removed from doing that. The reality is that pregnancy happened for me before without Pred or Cyclogest and without intralipids and it may be true that for them to be effective, those things have to be started before implantation, but it's a risk I'm willing to take. A part from the stress this removes, continues issues with my husband employment over the past year means we've ran out of money to throw at this for nothing. If it's meant to happen, it's going to have to happen naturally or will never happen again, this is where I'm at now. May feel reckless to some, but it's the most sensible thing for me. I also started running again and lost a teeny bit of weight, I don't care if running isn't great for fertility, as well as spending a lot of money, I am also very much sick and tired of holding my body hostage in a process that isn't leading anywhere anyway, I may as well try to enjoy my life a bit again.
Sorry to hear your DH sperm quality decreased since the last test and probably bears responsibility for some of the issues you've been having conceiving, but I hear male factor issues are easier to fix the female ones, especially those to do with egg quality, with the right treatment and supplements. Plus, as others have said, ICSI, IMSI and PIMSI can really get around many of the issues when the problem is morphology or motility. I hope the rest of the results you're waiting for are more positive and the clinic can give you good odds and hope. I know success stories can sometimes be more annoying than helpful, and I don't want to give false hope there, but I've a friend who struggled to conceive for 2 years solid, nothing at all so they went for IVF and his semen analysis showed he had extremely poor morphology - I don't have details or what his other parameters might have been like - but essentially they did ICSI and she was successful the first time around. I think he also made significant lifestyle changes in the meantime that must have contributed to improving his sperm because less than a year after their first baby was born she fell pregnant again without trying and totally unexpectedly and ended up having a second. So this to say, male factor issues can be fixed, sometimes just with lifestyle changes.
I hope everyone else is doig ok xx