LacePrincess
May 25th, 2015, 03:08 PM
hi ladies!
I am again on a fence about what to do this cycle. So we are having infertility issues, diagnosis currently unknown. We are redoing all our baseline and pretests this cycle.
I have also been prescribed Femara 2.5mg (cd 3-7) for this cycle, which sways pink. Right now I am stuck - do we try this month or not?!? Would I regret it if we got preggo right away on Femara but had boy #4?
So far the facts are:
-I am not a great IVF responder to a standard protocol.
-we do make girl embies (2 out of 3 that fertilized in our HT cycle were XX)
-we do not know currently what my egg reserve is, and I won't know before deciding whether to TTC this cycle
-I am in Canada so to do PGS for GS at all we have to travel to the US
-DH (military) is posted to another city for 2 years starting this Aug. So I will be doing all treatments pretty much by myself for the next two years. It is possible for him to take a little time off here and there if I need to, say, travel to the US for a week to do ER/ET, but it won't be easy. If we did IVF in the US I'd also have to drive to Montreal (2 hours away) to do all satellite monitoring - again this would be while DH is away so I'd have to squeeze it in while managing the house/kids by myself. Kind of hellish.
-I am 36 in Sept and this might very well be our last really good shot at a baby at all. With my fertility clearly sliding this past year, I can't count on any fertility at all by the time I'm 38-39.
What to do?!? I'm so so torn. It's easy to say 'go back to IVF now' but we have NO TIME. Any IVF now would be by myself, the whole thing, with having to drive 2 hours just to do monitoring. And we all know it often doesn't easily work either.
What would YOU do in my shoes? I keep waffling back and forth. Mainly I don't know what to do THIS month since I'm working blind with no idea of what my egg reserve is and how much time I have left.
Also, I am getting counselling starting tomorrow because my GD does have roots in my childhood (emotional abuse issues). So it's also possible that with counselling I can come to terms with all that and come to peace with my GD. (Blogged about it earlier today.)
Suggestions, feedback, devil's advocate, all welcome!! Thank you!
I am again on a fence about what to do this cycle. So we are having infertility issues, diagnosis currently unknown. We are redoing all our baseline and pretests this cycle.
I have also been prescribed Femara 2.5mg (cd 3-7) for this cycle, which sways pink. Right now I am stuck - do we try this month or not?!? Would I regret it if we got preggo right away on Femara but had boy #4?
So far the facts are:
-I am not a great IVF responder to a standard protocol.
-we do make girl embies (2 out of 3 that fertilized in our HT cycle were XX)
-we do not know currently what my egg reserve is, and I won't know before deciding whether to TTC this cycle
-I am in Canada so to do PGS for GS at all we have to travel to the US
-DH (military) is posted to another city for 2 years starting this Aug. So I will be doing all treatments pretty much by myself for the next two years. It is possible for him to take a little time off here and there if I need to, say, travel to the US for a week to do ER/ET, but it won't be easy. If we did IVF in the US I'd also have to drive to Montreal (2 hours away) to do all satellite monitoring - again this would be while DH is away so I'd have to squeeze it in while managing the house/kids by myself. Kind of hellish.
-I am 36 in Sept and this might very well be our last really good shot at a baby at all. With my fertility clearly sliding this past year, I can't count on any fertility at all by the time I'm 38-39.
What to do?!? I'm so so torn. It's easy to say 'go back to IVF now' but we have NO TIME. Any IVF now would be by myself, the whole thing, with having to drive 2 hours just to do monitoring. And we all know it often doesn't easily work either.
What would YOU do in my shoes? I keep waffling back and forth. Mainly I don't know what to do THIS month since I'm working blind with no idea of what my egg reserve is and how much time I have left.
Also, I am getting counselling starting tomorrow because my GD does have roots in my childhood (emotional abuse issues). So it's also possible that with counselling I can come to terms with all that and come to peace with my GD. (Blogged about it earlier today.)
Suggestions, feedback, devil's advocate, all welcome!! Thank you!