Hi everyone,

Lovely to meet you all and find this forum of like-minded ladies

We just moved here from the UK and are settling in Adelaide. Our background is that we have been ttc for nearly 2 years now officially, although its been longer than that unofficially iykwim I am still not pregnant and I've never been pregnant sadly so I thought something was wrong with me.

Back when we started I joined FF and started charting (you can see my charts if you're interested! 25cad7 Ovulation Charts). After some investigation, it turned out that I had low progesterone levels, and the u/s showed I had polycystic ovaries (but not the syndrome - my cycles are regular as clockwork and I have no PCOS symptoms!). In addition, DH has good sperm count but low motility and morphology.

Last December? I had a lap n dye and hysteroscopy (sp?) and ovarian drilling (just as much fun as it sounds!). The dye came through ok, she drilled a few holes, no endo. Interestingly enough post surgery my BBT figures started to go up too. DH was checked out by the urologist, no reason for his issues. He started a course of the (horribly expensive) vitamin Proxeed, and I did 2 months of clomid (50mg). No dice.

Next tests we had showed I had some mature follies so clomid was working great, we were bd'ing every other day because of his issues, and 3 months later we were still not preg (although the proxeed increased his morphology and motility it still wasn't good enough).

And then we emigrated to Australia, because life wasn't stressful enough

So the question I have (finally, they say!) is.... what do we do next? In the UK we got to see the consultant by being referred by our GP. After her, if we needed something like ICSI or IUI or IVF (which one do I need???) she would refer us to that part of the hospital. This was all on public health, we could not and still cannot pay for the treatment privately so we will need to join some sort of waiting list.

So.. if you were me, what would you do next? How does it work in Australia? Do you go to your GP and get referred when using Medicare? I am wondering if its possible to pick up where we left off, rather than starting again.

Also, in case it matters, I'm an aussie returning home and I've never had to deal with needing to see a specialist on Medicare so I am unsure what the procedure is. Private health is not an option for us right now, unfortunately.

Thank you for any all advice, its really appreciated!