bubbly1973's IUI online diary

[bubbly1973]

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....

Waiting is pants isnt it! Im so impatient! Im thinking of you and I feel really positive. Just you keep your feet up and make dh run after you! Im not up to speed on this process so excuse me for being a bit dim but they just put dhs half in you didnt they? They didnt fertilize the eggs for you?

Waiting is pants isnt it! Im so impatient! Im thinking of you and I feel really positive. Just you keep your feet up and make dh run after you! Im not up to speed on this process so excuse me for being a bit dim but they just put dhs half in you didnt they? They didnt fertilize the eggs for you?

Whoops!!!!!

day 18

temp 36.5

feeling very angry and keep going over in my head that the clinic were so busy and didnt do my insemination till 2.30pm when it should have been done early!

googled last night to find out when ovulation occurs after midnight injection, and they all say 36 hours or so, which would mean they did mine on the 38th hour

then i think, surely when they were doing the reduction they would have seen if id ovulated? so many questions unanswered, im not happy

if this treatment doesnt work, i will want answers since im paying for it!

so there we are, trying my best to be positive but very hard at the moment

thanks kcemum, sally, louise for you kind messages

louise, yes dh did his bit in the morning, they did a sperm wash then inserted his sperm through the cervix into my womb

Well it all sounds promising. Why was his sperm washed?

Tell me to bugger off if this is too personal but Im really really curious. During this treatment are you allowed to have sex together? If you are does it have to be protected?

Sorry to be nosy I just like to understand the ins and outs of everything! Not literally tho!!

louise, hiya, i dont think your being nosey, i think its great how you are interested in something that is new to you and you havent had to experience, so ask away hun

dh had to have a sperm wash, what they basically means is that they get the best ones out and they are they ones they insert me...i dont know how they actually get the best ones from the slow swimmers, perhaps this is the bit where they wash it in some sort of chemical?

we are allowed to have sex but must abstain 3 days before the insemination

however me and dh have not had sex throughout the whole cycle, we never last time we had the treatment done either, i guess we are paranoid, dont want to have sex before hand incase it clogs up there and dont want it after incase we dislodge some sort of conception activity up there

i know it sounds weird, but it stops me being paranoid that we have messed it all up

I dont think I would either. Id feel the same as you. Id also be scared that if ovulation had occured that they would all be fertilized!! Thats my luck!

Whats the process for testing then? do you do it? when? Or would you rather not talk/think about it yet?

lol louise, yeh i can just imagine me and dh doing the hanky panky and finding out that all the eggs had been fertilised...

on may 19th, which will be exactly 2 weeks to the day i had the insemination i have to go in and have my blood taken in the morning, i then ring up after 2pm that afternoon for the results

I have an exam that day at 7pm!!! I wont be able to get on here till really late to find out!! Just so you know, and Im sure Ican include many others on here, we will be here to be with you whatever the result.
x x x

thank you louise, that means a lot to me
your so kind

what exam are you doing? good luck and i hope you do really well

Its Business information Management. Really dreading it as Ive struggled all year through!

im sure you will be fine on the day, just make sure you get your head down in those books in the next two weeks!!

good luck i will have my fingers crossed for you and hope you do really well hun

Well you worry about my exam and it will keep your mind off your test that day. I will worry about your test for you.

Really strange as I dont even know your real name but I feel like I know you well, Im really nervous and excited for you!

day 19

temp 36.6

fertilityfriend predicted that i ovulated on day 16, that is the day i had the insemination

i dont feel at all like it has worked to be honest, i know its early days, but its just a feeling i have

we been out all day to a christening, i did have half a cider, oops!

well thats all today, my moods are fine, my boobs dont feel sore, all of these things which i felt last time i was pregnant, but i cant remember at what stage i felt these symptons, maybe it was 8 or so days after the insemination

will post again tomorrow
bye for now

Keep positive Bubbly, perhaps it is a little early to feel/look for signs although it is hard not too, sending you positive vibes.

Surely its to early to feel the signs?

I think you are just being cautious by not thinking its worked. I dont blame you tho. I would be the same

day 20

temp 36.6

nothing to report today, feel the same really as yesterday

i am trying to be positive now, louise, kcemum, i know you are both right, it is far too early for any signs, i think sometimes i am impatient and if nothing is happening then i assume its not worked even though i know its early...silly really

well another day over and another day nearer to the end of the 2ww

day 21

temp 36.6

nothing to report today, in a bad mood, not sure if thats the cyclogest or me just being a bitch today

my best friend rang today, she knows a woman who reads cards, and she said that i will have a girl and i will have good news in June,

i know you cant read much into these things really, but i did think this treatment wont work, but the one in june will...then when i thought a bit more about it, i realised that if this treatment doesnt work, then my next treatment will be end of june so wouldnt know if i was pregnant till july

unless...

they do my next treatment straight away on may 19th, which would mean i would know if it worked in june

then again

this treatment has worked and in june when i have the scan i will see a little heart beating

then again i should take it all with a pinch of salt!

enough babbling today, will babble tomorrow now!

Dont be so pesimistic. I think you will have a scan in june and this will reassure you that you everything is ok.
Going off the things you have said Id expect that you would have to have a 'normal' period before you could start the treatment again.

I feel realy positive for you.

day 22

temp 36.6

well nearly half way there, another week to go yay!

i been in a foul mood today, i am trying my best to be in a good mood, and my poor ds has got the brunt of it, bless him

tomorrow i will be a better person, and a good mother and whilst i am at it i might as well be a good wife too!

day 23

temp 36.7

no symptons today, exactly a week since the insemination...still in a bad mood, i think im angry more than anything else as i felt i have paid for this treatment and was entitled to the answers that i wanted

so have decided the only way i will feel better about all this is if i ring them up monday

the main question i want to ask them is how sure they can be that i never ovulated before they gave me the insemination, how can they be sure that the egg wasnt waiting in the fallopian tube...and when they did the follicle induction what if they disturbed that egg or damaged it!!!

i need to know, no good trying to wait to see what happens, i feel angry that they may have messed up

will post again tomorrow to winge!

Winge away!

I hope you get the answers that you need. My exam has been changed from the 19th to the 21st so I will be here waiting for your results!

Hi Bubbly. Sorry you're feeling bad. Cyclogest is a rotten drug to have to take and I don't envy you. I haven't read the whole thread so forgive me if i've missed something. It can take several days for the eggs to get to the outside world iyswim so a couple of hours would most definately not make that much of a difference, they'd just be a little further along your fallopian tubes. With regard to whether or not you ovulated, I should imagine that had you ovulated, the follicles will have deflated and they would be able to tell from the internal scan whether or not that had happened. The 2 week wait is awful and so much goes through your head. Easier said than done, I know, but try and relax for the next week if you can, knowing that you've done all you can. Good luck