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Husband has CAVD

aelmdh413
  • By aelmdh413 · Posted November 17, 2009
  • Discussion in Fertility treatment options · 1 reply
  • My husband has been recently diagnosed with CAVD. Congenital Absence of the Vas Deferens. The docs think the only way we are going to be able to have a child is through invitro or sperm donor. I am against ...

Must remain positive

LissaM
  • By LissaM · Posted November 8, 2009
  • Journal · 4 replies
  • Here I am about to try another IVF cycle. I decided to take time off from work to concentrate on me only for a change. At my age the statistics of a positive resulting in pregnancy and live birth basically ...

Premature Menopause

teachingfirst78
  • By teachingfirst78 · Posted November 7, 2009
  • Journal · 1 reply
  • I have been diagnosed with premature menopause. I am on my second day of knowing this fact. I have things to do today and I don't think I can do any of them. My husband is soooo supportive but I feel ...

Lap procedure

Calliopie
  • By Calliopie · Posted November 6, 2009
  • Journal · 3 replies
  • So my lap procedure is coming up in a couple of weeks, I am finally getting in because my doctors have been taking turns going on vacation. I know the have their own busy lives, but waiting has been awful ...

Any advice???

mcmann05
  • By mcmann05 · Posted November 3, 2009
  • Discussion in Fertility treatment options · 1 reply
  • I am 28 years old and my DH is 30. We have been TTC since November of 2005....a 15 month Iraq deployment fell in there but other than that, we've been consistently trying. DH had an SA in May 2008. It ...

Surrogacy

kari81
  • By kari81 · Posted November 1, 2009
  • Journal · 1 reply
  • I am new to this site and I don't know much about surrogacy. I know how it works and my sister has agreed to carry our child we will start trying next fall. But I don't know where to begin on the whole ...

the wait

NNani
  • By NNani · Posted October 13, 2009
  • Journal · 14 replies
  • Hi all, I just had my first round of IUI after trying to get pregnant naturally for a year. The 2wk wait is long, I know I should be use to it but I will not give up ...

Not producing oestrogen

Sandiestar
  • By Sandiestar · Posted October 13, 2009
  • Discussion in Results of fertility treatment · 0 replies
  • Hey ladies... just looking for anyone who has had IVF after ovarian cancer or not responding to gonal injections..I was dx'd with stage 3A borderline cancer a year ago and have had two debulking surgeries ...

Over responders

brookeeg
  • By brookeeg · Posted October 9, 2009
  • Journal · 1 reply
  • Hi girls, I am more of a lurker than a poster, but I have a question. I have done 2 gonal F cycles so far. The first on I was meant to do IUI but I over stimmulated on a low dose of gonal f (112.5ius ...

I'm an RN that got hurt and my health went to pot!

RobynRae
  • By RobynRae · Posted October 7, 2009
  • Journal · 11 replies
  • This is my first time on this site to recored any info and I hope I do it right! I'm still in the learning stages of the computers and what I can and can't do which is keep my fingers on the right keys ...

Heating Pad when TTC

FutureMommie
  • By FutureMommie · Posted October 6, 2009
  • Discussion in Results of fertility treatment · 2 replies
  • I have really bad ovulation pain and the only thing that really helps is a heating pad but I am wondering if it harms the egg that is released when I ovulate. I looked on the internet and got mix answers ...

Finally Feel Like I'm Home

MaebyZim
  • By MaebyZim · Posted September 28, 2009
  • Discussion in Emotional support · 1 reply
  • I'm new to this site, but I feel so happy that I have found it. I've felt so alone in this journey. My husband and I have been trying to have kids for two years. We did two rounds of Clomid with no success ...

need help

bratt72h
  • By bratt72h · Posted September 27, 2009
  • Discussion in Fertility treatment options · 0 replies
  • i just had surgey to clean my tubes one was not able to be done the other one they cut and fixed have a scare but was worth it i want a baby so bad, my question is 3 days after the surgy i ve been having ...

Baby after 8 years

Clover21
  • By Clover21 · Posted September 24, 2009
  • Discussion in Emotional support · 0 replies
  • I got married at 23 and I thought I would have a child when I wanted to have one, but I was wrong. at 25, I had stage 3 endometriosis and overweight and was told by my doctor that it would be hard for ...

1st ivf cycle now 2ww

rm11s
  • By rm11s · Posted September 20, 2009
  • Journal · 0 replies
  • As I sit here and type this, I am crying terribly. We are 4dpt and I am ashamed to say, I am not at all hopeful. I had only 7 eggs, none that were mature. They were able to force one and we did a 3day ...

Needing some support

Heather_L
  • By Heather_L · Posted September 19, 2009
  • Journal · 4 replies
  • Well, I have finally joined a support group. I have visited them for a while now but thought (hoped) that the next cycle would work and I would be pregnant. As the cycles drag on with no success and I ...

New to site- Cycle update

brookeeg
  • By brookeeg · Posted September 12, 2009
  • Journal · 1 reply
  • Hello, I am new to this site, and I look forward to meeting, and getting to know you. Right now I am doing an FSH/IUI cycle. I am on CD 9. When I went in for my CD 7 bloodwork and ultarsound I was told ...

Clomid and health insurance

SofeYG
  • By SofeYG · Posted September 2, 2009
  • Discussion in In the news · 2 replies
  • Hi Ladies, I am new to this site but find it very comforting. I hope some of you might be able to reassure me... I was researching clomid online, since I just did my first round of IUI/Clomid last week ...

PCOS?

newme21
  • By newme21 · Posted August 26, 2009
  • Journal · 8 replies
  • im new to this group so i was just wondering if anybody has infromation on PCOS! i kinda think that i have that and i have research it and i have most of the signs. Me and My Husband have been ttc for ...

First round of Clomid ends in miscarriage

Mrose79
  • By Mrose79 · Posted August 12, 2009
  • Journal · 26 replies
  • So, we did it! We got pregnant on the first round of Clomid. And then, the aweful news came. When I started to spot at 8 wks I called my doc. She had me come in for an emergency ultrasound. I was supposed ...

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