IUI Round 2

So here I am, CD 12. I started over this cycle with Femara 5 mg from CD 3-7. I went for a follie scan on CD10, and had 2 on the left (14 & 11) and none on the right. The RE told me to trigger tonight and we will have our IUI on Friday morning (CD14.
I don't know if it's too late to help, but I got back into the red raspberry leaf tea yesterday and am drinking 4 cups a day.
I think this cycle I will eat the pineapple core from 1 to 5 dpiui too.
Anything to help!

9 dpiui and about to lose my mind

It is very early in the morning...I have been up since 5 AM! As I sit here checking email, playing with my new Blackberry Z10, sipping my one coffee I allow myself per day - I SWEAR i had a few waves of nausea! Please God don't let me be getting the flu!!! Please let it really be nausea! Yesterday I broke down like a crappy old car and tested. It of course was negative. It was negative when I peed, it was negative 2, 10, 20, 30 and 60 minutes later. It was negative 3 hrs later, in the bathroom light, in the natural light from the window, and under the glare of a flashlight. Like I said, I am losing my mind!

I had ordered 20 hpt's from cheappregnancytests online, oh about two weeks ago now and they haven't arrived yet! Super annoying! So today I will go see my ND as she sells them in her clinic for about $1.50. I will get enough to test twice a day until Monday (when AF would be due).
I did have one more hot flash yesterday afternoon around 3 o'clock...but that's it. Nada. Zilch. I actually think I was a bit depressed yesterday, but resolve to not let it get to me today. I am going to get my hair done today - which always makes me feel good :)

So that's my rant - much ado about nothing!

7 dpiui

Okay so today is 7 dpiui, and I don't know if it's the progesterone or what, but I am in such a BAD mood! I seriously could rip someone a new one right now, and I really don't know why. I had a pretty normal day. I did have one serious hot flash, but it was right after eating a monstrous poutine so it could have been food sweats! Other than that, I had some mild cramping today. That's about it. Lack of symptoms really. My boobs are slightly tender, but nothing crazy. I think the TWW is getting to me!

Symptoms by dpiui

So I have been searching through previous posts I made on various community groups in search of my symptoms from last time...and no luck. So I am going to start logging my symptoms by day:
Day of IUI - cramping, spotting
1dpiui - cramping and spotting
2dpiui - cramping, +opk test(I didn't have any hpt's)
3dpiui - not much...slightly tender bbs, + opk test
4dpiui - slight cramping/twinges of pain, sore lower back, sore bbs - no more tests to pee on :(
5dpiui - peeing lots, but it's the weekend and I have no hpt's to keep testing out my trigger
6dpiui - negative hpt test, trigger is out. No symptoms really...just irritated by the Crinone
7dpiui - cranky!!! slight cramps, hot flash
8dpiui - not much, runny nose
9dpiui - nausea in morning, boobs slightly sore, runny nose, neg hpt in afternoon
10 dpiui - BFN on cheapie hpt with FMU :( sore boobs, runny nose
I will edit and update as the days go by. This tww is really a hard time on the ol' nerves!

In the Two Week Wait

So my follie scan went okay...I had two - one each side; both around 14.6mm. I triggered on Saturday night and we had our IUI on Monday morning (January 6th). DH's counts were amazing! 100 million, 90% mobility post wash. Yes, he has supersperm and he knows it ;) So now I am 2 dpiui, and will test out my trigger shot. Of course I had a positive on an OPK today. I went for acupuncture yesterday and started Crinone the night of the IUI. Good grief that is nasty stuff! Anyway, so far I have had some mild cramping and I had spotting the day of the IUI. My boobs are slightly tender today. That's about it for now...FXFXFX!

IUI number one - update

Well I am nearing the end of the dreaded tww...today I am 10 dpiui...and I plan to test tomorrow morning, and every morning after that until a)- I get my BFP, or b) - AF shows up.
I have some symptoms, but I really don't know if they are al due to the progesterone or not...but I have certainly had waives of nausea here and there (could be from the Metformin too).  My boobs are a little sore - nothing crazy though, and I have had some mild cramping on and off, again nothing crazy.  I can't judge my CM because of the progesterone...so yeah - that's what I got.  Oh and this aft I have a slight headache, but nothing serious.

Femara Round 2

So AF reared her ugly head yesterday morning, turning CD 29 into CD1 for me.
I knew she was coming....but I hate her anyways!
So, here we go, on to round 2 of Femara.  Same protocol.  I will take 5mg from CD 3-7.  My Metformin dose is at 1500 mg daily now.  I am waiting for the RE clinic to call me back to book an ultrasound for CD 11, and then book IUI after that.
Maybe the IUI will be our ticket!  Hopefully!  With every passing month I feel older and older, and am really starting to question the fairness of all of this.  As in, the older I get, is it fair to bring another child into this world who may not have me around to help them out later on in life.  I guess I just am so close with my Mom, that I can not imagine not having her around.  Anyway, deep thoughts.

Update - January 16, 2012

So I am CD9 today and really not too much has been going on.  A few little boughts of nausea over the last couple of days, usually in the morning when I was hungry - maybe from the increased dose of Metformin?
Last month on CD 9 I have some slight pain in my L ovary, this month, nothing so far.  I hope this isn't a bad sign.  I have slight pain in my boobs...that's about it.  I am still having slight spotting, which sucks after 9 days!!!  I go for a follie scan on CD11, this Wednesday and we will do IUI.  If we are on target with last month, Saturday morning will likely be the scheduled IUI.  It all depends what happens on Wednesday.

DH is not looking forward to making love to a cup in a medical building lol!! Poor guy eh?  I don't look forward to the plethora of pills that make me sick, the repeated invasive tests, shooting myself with needles in the stomach, getting a naturopath to stick me full of needles in the name of Chinese medicine, and peeing all over my hands trying to pee on a gadgillion GD sticks!!!!  End vent.  Yes, I imagine it must really suck to masturbate in a public building.  Poor fella.

Oh, did I mention I am slightly cranky today?