It was a wild week. I had my HSG (dye test) on Wednesday, and I truly did not expect the doctor to find anything wrong. Unfortunately, we do have a new problem we have to address. During the HSG, she noticed that my uterus is smaller than normal, so she had us come back on Thursday for an SIS. The SIS helped her get a better look at my uterus to see if there was anything causing it to be small. A small uterus like mine greatly increases your chances for a premature baby. If I got pregnant now, I would be with a high-risk specialist throughout the entire pregnancy and would most likely be on bedrest majority of the pregnancy. She recommended that we try to grow it by me taking large doses of estrogen for 60 days.
During the SIS, they looked at my ovaries, and I had big, healthy, beautiful follicles. I responded great to the 200mg of Clomid! It breaks my heart that we can't use any of these follicles because we now have a new problem. We finally get to a point where I'll ovulate, and we don't get to try to conceive. The doctor wanted me to continue tracking this cycle and start the estrogen when I start my next cycle. Then I'll take the estrogen for a minimum of 60 days and a maximum of 90 days. Hopefully after 60 days my uterus will be bigger, and I'll take Provera for 10 days to induce a new cycle and should start about 10 days after my last dose of Provera. It will be the end of May before we get to a cycle where we can try again. That's 3 1/2 months away.
On Saturday night, the ovulation predictor test showed that I was beginning to surge, so yesterday we went to the doctor's office for blood work, an ultrasound, and an HCG shot to trigger full ovulation. The ultrasound showed that I have 11 follicles on my right side and 14 on my left side, and 3 were ready for ovulation (1.77 cm, 1.6 cm, and 2.1 cm). My blood work came back really good too. We left with our newest assignment: Don't get pregnant per doctor's orders.
It has now been 24 hours since the HCG shot, so I know I am either ovulating or a few hours away from ovulating. I should be trying to get pregnant, but I'm trying to get through this nightmare instead. I just pray that these next few months go by quickly and that my uterus does grow in response to the estrogen.
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