Long Term TTC & Assisted Conception ~ December 2006

[Willow]

Hi Girls, I'm also not new to BB but new to this thread. I hope you don't mind me joining in.

Very briefly, I have secondary infertility issues, we have been prg twice before, have a beautiful DD who just turned 2 and lost our second baby in March 06 at 12 w. I had surgery to remove a large cyst from my left ovary in May 06 and since then have not been able to conceive. Changed Drs and had another lap done in Nov 06 to find out what was going on and discovered I have some pretty serious scarring and adhesions affecting my left side. So it is possible that I could conceive naturally on my right side, but our FS has given us about a 5% chance per cycle. We've done 5 clomid cycles without success so we're giving IVF a go.

I'm on day 9 of synarel and have an appt on thursday to pick up my injections and learn how to do them.

I have a lot of close girlfriends who've done IVF (bizarre really, 5 out of 6 of us have undergone AC, most IVF) so I'm pretty familiar with how it all works and have a lot of support if I need it but so far we've only told one of them that we've started our cycle and I'm planning on leaving it that way. I think I can do without the pressure of everyone waiting for the outcome.

I know the chances of success on my first cycle aren't great but I'm still hoping! The past 12 months have been very difficult and I just want to get off this rollercoaster, as I'm sure we all do!