Monday, June 15, 2009
Bad News
What a waste of 6 months! There is nothing wrong with me. Well there is "something" wrong with me (obviously) but they can't find it. So I get to try again and have another miscarriage. Dr.L wants me to do injectables because he thinks that will give me a "better" egg. I think my eggs are just fine! I made a fully formed 15 week fetus last time, do bad eggs do that? I'm so frustrated. So he wants me to take aspirin again, do injectables and progesterone and have very close monitoring throughout my cycle and any pregnancy we have. I know exactly what's going to happen. I'm going to get pregnant and miscarry again and then I'm going to be really pissed off! I see my regular RE on Thursday and Dr.L will try and talk to him before that appointment to fill him in on his suggestions and then Dr.S (regular RE) and I will formulate a plan. The other bad news is that DH's new drug plan doesn't kick in until November and injectables are expensive. How much would the drugs cost for one cycle? I don't even know. My mom already offered to pay for it all but I would like to have an idea about the cost first.
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I'm so sorry. Oh, that sucks. :( That is definitely not useful news.
ReplyDeleteI don't see how injectables would give you a 'better' egg. Unless your natural ovulation takes longer than the 'normal' 14 days - then injects might help. I'm assuming that Dr L knows what he's talking about, but ???
The med cost for a cycle depends on how many days it takes to stim, and on what the dosage is. It can vary widely. E.g., I paid LESS for my meds for IVF #2 than I did for my one injects/IUI cycle - just because I had to stim for 18 days for the IUI, as opposed to 8 days for the IVF. (I just responded very differently both times.)
But anyway, to give you an idea, my IVF #2 regime was 125 units of Puregon/day. (And that was a really low dose - I don't think you'd have a high dose, either, because of the PCOS and your young age, since they won't want you to overstim.) One 300 unit cartridge at Glen Shields pharmacy (the cheapest place I know of) is around $280, I believe. There's always extra medication in the vial, so if you were at a 125 unit dose, that would last for about 3 days. My guess is that they'd try a 150 unit dose on you, to start.
Just a tip, as well: if you do decide to go ahead with injectables, buy the cartridges in the 300 unit increments (rather than the 600 or the 900). You'll get more of the extra med they put into the vials, so it stretches out longer.
Ah, this sucks. What a waste of half a year. I'm hoping, of course, that this works for you for once.
xxx
Shit - why do they keep you hanging for so long to only give you a "we don't know" answer? So sorry to hear that you didn't get any real answers.
ReplyDeleteThe recurrent loss (and my aging, and DH's bad sperm) did push me to move on to IVF sooner rather than later. I'm hoping the blast culture and transfer of 2 at a time will leave me pregnant with one (or two?) healthy babies in the end.
Does you DH have any problems? Mine has fairly high DNA fragmentation (27.4% = fair fertilitiy potential).
Hugs - I'm sure you need all you can get...
Thanks girls. I really need the support right now and all the people in my "real life" don't understand. They try but really truly have no idea.
ReplyDeleteOHW: Thanks for the pricing info.
Kate: DH has perfect super sperm (of course). Our genetic testing a(done in January) still hasn't come back yet but should be back in July but we have the green light to TTC again now so I think we will.