Hi 
I hope its ok to do this. I really enjoy reading Little Reds diary and i used to keep up to date with G3M's. I think they are great to read and it can also be reassuring to see what everyone else is going through. Also i dont see many posts about MF infertility, which is something that i always have looked out for. I cant be the only one!! TTC has been a bit of a rollercoaster for me & DH and sometimes i do feel that i have no one to talk to about it, so i'm hoping that this will help me as well as hopefully being informative for others in a similar situation.
A bit about us and our story so far (i'll try to keep it short & wont go into too much detail!).......................
I'm almost 28 and my DH is 27. We've been together for 8 1/2 years and got married in May 2006. We started ttc at the start of '06, so 19 months so far. I have always had irregular periods, so we thought it would be difficult to have a baby anyway. My longest cycle has been 6 months.....so we didn't expect anything to happen quickly. I went to my GP as soon as we decided to ttc to see if he could find out the cause of my irregular AF. He sent me for tests - blood tests showed a possibility of PCOS but ultrasound showed no cysts. So was told there was nothing wrong with me and to try for a year. In Feb 07 i went back to the hospital, who did a HSG (again everything fine, no blockages etc) and more blood tests, we were also refered to the fertility clinic. DH had SA, and at the point our story goes down hill!! We were not expecting the outcome of the SA at all. We had always assumed that it was me stopping us from falling pregnant. His tests showed a very low sperm count and we were told to wait 3 months and then do another one. We were impatient and paid for a private SA a few weeks later. We were given hope, his count was 44 million and even though there was a high number of abnormal forms we were so pleased. 2 tests later and his count is low again and he has issues with motility and morphology too.
There's no explanation for it, its just one of those things. Its still possible for us to have a baby but with my sporadic ovulation our chances are slim to none! ICSI is our only option, but i'm worried about IVF. The doctor cant be 100% sure whether i do or dont have PCOS, he said that because i keep my weight down the cysts may not be showing on the scan but my blood tests indicate it slightly. I'm more confused than when we started!! He wont do anything to treat me because he said there's no point, so i've started taking agnus castus to hopefully regulate me. If it does then i'd like to try naturally again for a few months before we resort to more serious measures. So far i've been taking it for 2 weeks and after 100+ days of waiting, i have ovulated! I dont know whether its the agnus or just coincidence, but its a miracle! 
On the IVF front we are waiting for an appointment to come through at a local private clinic. They received our referral letter a week ago so it shouldn't be too long now.
OMG....i cant believe how much i've wrote when i said i would keep it short!!
Again i hope no one minds me doing this.
Speak to you soon,
Michelle x
I hope its ok to do this. I really enjoy reading Little Reds diary and i used to keep up to date with G3M's. I think they are great to read and it can also be reassuring to see what everyone else is going through. Also i dont see many posts about MF infertility, which is something that i always have looked out for. I cant be the only one!! TTC has been a bit of a rollercoaster for me & DH and sometimes i do feel that i have no one to talk to about it, so i'm hoping that this will help me as well as hopefully being informative for others in a similar situation.
A bit about us and our story so far (i'll try to keep it short & wont go into too much detail!).......................
I'm almost 28 and my DH is 27. We've been together for 8 1/2 years and got married in May 2006. We started ttc at the start of '06, so 19 months so far. I have always had irregular periods, so we thought it would be difficult to have a baby anyway. My longest cycle has been 6 months.....so we didn't expect anything to happen quickly. I went to my GP as soon as we decided to ttc to see if he could find out the cause of my irregular AF. He sent me for tests - blood tests showed a possibility of PCOS but ultrasound showed no cysts. So was told there was nothing wrong with me and to try for a year. In Feb 07 i went back to the hospital, who did a HSG (again everything fine, no blockages etc) and more blood tests, we were also refered to the fertility clinic. DH had SA, and at the point our story goes down hill!! We were not expecting the outcome of the SA at all. We had always assumed that it was me stopping us from falling pregnant. His tests showed a very low sperm count and we were told to wait 3 months and then do another one. We were impatient and paid for a private SA a few weeks later. We were given hope, his count was 44 million and even though there was a high number of abnormal forms we were so pleased. 2 tests later and his count is low again and he has issues with motility and morphology too.
There's no explanation for it, its just one of those things. Its still possible for us to have a baby but with my sporadic ovulation our chances are slim to none! ICSI is our only option, but i'm worried about IVF. The doctor cant be 100% sure whether i do or dont have PCOS, he said that because i keep my weight down the cysts may not be showing on the scan but my blood tests indicate it slightly. I'm more confused than when we started!! He wont do anything to treat me because he said there's no point, so i've started taking agnus castus to hopefully regulate me. If it does then i'd like to try naturally again for a few months before we resort to more serious measures. So far i've been taking it for 2 weeks and after 100+ days of waiting, i have ovulated! I dont know whether its the agnus or just coincidence, but its a miracle! On the IVF front we are waiting for an appointment to come through at a local private clinic. They received our referral letter a week ago so it shouldn't be too long now.
OMG....i cant believe how much i've wrote when i said i would keep it short!!
Again i hope no one minds me doing this.
Speak to you soon,
Michelle x
It would be lovely to keep in touch, so if you ever need to talk then i'm always around. Sometimes he helps to speak to people who have the same problems as you.
. I'm worried about if it doesn't work or if something goes wrong. I'm also nervous about it working and then miscarrying as i've read the chances of miscarriage are higher. I worry about everything!!! We probably would have been well into our first cycle by now if it wasn't for me!
