The Consultation... Chapter THREE

I went to the fertility clinic and met with a Dr. who basically gave me a packet of paperwork, a todo list, and said once i completed it as well as my husband we could be seen. I was a little overwhelmed but just like I do everything else, I decided to jump in and start making the appointments for myself and my husband and check off that list. By the end of that day I had everything in order and all appointments made for our exams and blood work to complete our list. This was all in the month of October 2015. I had so much blood work done at different times of the month and i had to have a HSG test completed as well. Let me just say, for some its not painful, for me, it was excruciating. Typically its painful for patients that have blocked tubes but for me mine was clear! A ragiologist runs dye into the uterine cavity through the vagina and cervix. The uterine cavity fills with dye and if the fallopian tubes are open, dye fills the tubes and spills into the abdominal cavity. Mine being clear was a great sign so we moved on to the next item on the list which was a transvaginal ultrasound. So, because I have had a lot of cyst on my ovaries i am unfortunately used to having them done. But i can say i have never had a ultrasound tech hand me the probe and tell me to use it hahahaha it was the most awkward moment of my life! I was like ummm, isn't this your job? That test also come back clear... The next thing on the list was that my hubby needed blood work complete as well as a semen sample. Now I always joked that because my hubby is 10 years older than me that our fertility issue had to be with him! I honestly knew that men can make babies until they die but it made it easier to joke about blaming him! We had to put off our appointment because my husband had a training in Singapore and that fast forwards us to December 2015. My husband completed his test and we took another break because we went home to NC to surprised our family for Chrsitmas. We FINALLY were able to get back into the clinic in January of 2016 and met a super sweet Doctor, who I grew to love. Her name was Doctor Middleton and she was so was quick and honest. My husband went with me to the consultation to go over all the test results and Middleton jumped right into FERTILITY MEDS and procedures! I was like Whoah darlin' I am not sure I want to do all that! She first wanted me to try Clomid but we joked that it sounds too much like cloning and my hub said no haha but on top of that Clomid has a lot of negitive side effects and a bigger possibility of multiples which we did not want. So I met her in the middle and started taking Metformin for my PCOS, prenatal vitamins (because you will learn quickly you have to always assume you are prego), Femera (the other option instead of Clomid) and Ovidrel which is a shot you give yourself when its time to make your body ovulate. The weirdest part I think for me was 1. i hate taking meds and 2. Femera is not FDA approved for fertility but is for breast cancer. That freaked me out a smidgin, I wont lie! So that moves us into the forth chapter of our story...