Fertility

On October 2,2012, I had taken an ovulation test and it came back positive. That morning I had the strongest feeling that doing an IUI that day would work. I hadn't really got anything like that before so I was sure it was Heavenly Father giving me inspiration.Shane and I discussed it and decided to make an appointment with Dr Cox to do an IUI.  The office said we could go in that day so it all worked out. They had to incubate the sperm for about 45 min before doing the IUI so we took a little drive. I was super nervous and asked Shane to give me a blessing. In his blessing he asked that the IUI would work and the egg would accept the sperm and be fertilized. I was comforted and thought this was the day we would conceive, it was finally going to happen!  At the priesthood session of conference Shane said he felt like he got an answer that we were pregnant, the procedure had worked.Well 2 weeks later, low and behold Aunt Flow came to visit. I was so shocked and hurt. Why would we have all of those strong feelings for nothing? What more were we supposed to learn from this trial?

We had been on a fertility medication, femara, for 2 months and decided we may need to look further into a fertility specialist. So, on October 20, 2012, Shane, my mom and I meet with Dr Swelstad in their Sandy, UT office to do an ultrasound and some blood work. In the ultrasound Dr Swelstad found that I had 3 cysts by my left ovary that needed to be taken care of before we continued on with fertility medications. After the appointment, mom and I went shopping in Sandy and Shane went back to help Caleb work on a house. It was nice to go shopping and try to take my mind off fertility stuff for a little while.

One of the blood work tests we did is called an OAR (ovarian assessment report). The office called about a week or so later with the results. The test had found that I don't have as many eggs as most women my age. It showed also that my brain had to work a little bit harder to try and tell my ovary to release an egg.


Dr. Swelstad had me take birth control for 6 weeks to see if it would shrink my cysts or make them go away. Well the birth control made me crazy! I was super moody, irritated, got depressed and got really really sore breasts. I tried to switch it but the generic I was taking was apparently the generic of the other birth control they had prescribed. After 6 weeks, we went in for an ultrasound to see the results. On November 29 (our 4th anniversary) we drove to Dr. Swelstad's Layton, UT office. The ultrasound showed that the birth control had shrunk the cysts a little bit, which was a relief. He recommended that I stay on birth control for 2 more weeks and than went over his plan for me. He wants me to do femara days 3-7 of my cycle, do shots (that create more follicles) on days 7,9 and 11 and do an ultrasound on the 12th day to check the follicles and see if we have a good shot at getting one egg to fertilize, then do an IUI on day 14 (or whenever I ovulate). Shane and I were a little overwhelmed at how we were going to pay for all of this since it would total up to 1000.00 dollars for a maybe. Do we risk it or no? It is so hard to try and decide what to do.