Tequila Rose

Life is what happens when you are making other plans.

We decided to take a short break from medications and procedures and go on vacation.   I was kind of annoyed because my period was due the last day of our vacation. Well, it didn't start that day, or the next day, or the next day.  Two days after we got back from vacation (this past Monday) I took a pregnancy test and it was positive. So I took 3 more, all positive including a digital.

 

We were excited and scared and freaked out. It was amazing that his had happened. After all of these procedures and medications and time and money, this had happened naturally, out of the blue.  It was a holiday but I called the doctor anyway and he ordered a blood test. I joked that we'd name our daughter Tequila since she was likely conceived on our vacation in Mexico. 

I went and had the test but didn't hear back until Tuesday morning. Tuesday morning I took another test and it was lighter, which indicated to me that something was wrong, it should have been getting darker.  I got the call later that morning, the numbers came back low. My HCG was 25 and my progesterone 10.9.  They put me on Progesterone in Oil shots and scheduled more blood work for Wednesday (today).  

I had the test today and got the call, HCG has dropped to 9 and progesterone was up to 18.8 from the supplements.  

I'm in the process of miscarrying the pregnancy.  I barely even knew it existed and now its going to be gone.  I'm trying to look on the bright side that we went from completely infertile to a natural pregnancy.  That is really amazing.

Digital tests require an HCG of 50 to register pregnant but later that same day a blood test showed 25 and 48 hours later 9, that is a pretty fast drop.
Based on my last period I am 4 weeks and 4 days pregnant today.

I was taking 200mg oral progesterone from 10dpo. Yesterday added 50mg progesterone in oil injection and 2 100mg endometrium suppositories. I'm supposed to stop all progesterone and wait for my period to start.

It's been a rollercoaster ride of emotions this week.

IUI #2

Had IUI #2 today.

My ovulation predictor was positive on Sunday.   I went in yesterday for an ultrasound and had a follicle on my left.  Since he is trying to lengthen my leuetal phase he had me do an injection of 2,500 iu of HCG yesterday. I'll do another on Wednesday, a third on Friday and the last on Sunday.   On Friday I will also start Endometrium, a progesterone suppository.

The sperm was not nearly as good today.  There were very few motile, he let me look in the microscope.  He made sure I knew how small the chances of success were before he did the IUI.

Since I'm on the HCG a home pregnancy test won't work (would be false positive) until 5 days at least after my last injection.

I'm not going to get my hopes up this cycle like I did  last time.

The wait

Just a quick update to say no news!  Just waiting.

I tested out my trigger shot and as of last night the hcg tests were almost completely blank so that is out of my system now meaning that any pregnancy test I take will have accurate results.

 I went and got progesterone blood work done yesterday and it came back this morning with a level of 27.8 which is great!  Anything over 10 is good. That was a relief because I'd been worried that the supplement dosage I was on was not enough.

I had a temp drop yesterday on my basal body temperature testing and then it spiked back up today, that is a good sign (and making me obsess more).