Progesterone

I had a phone call from my GPs surgery last week saying the doctor would like to see me! So I went this evening and typically it wasn't the doctor who asked to see me so the conversation went like this:

Doc: Hello, what can I do for you?
Me: You asked to see me.
Doc: Oh, right did someone ring you?
Me: Yes the receptionist.
Doc: Ok, let's have a look.

The doc proceeds to scroll through my online notes while I sit there thinking I have an idea what it's about but I'll see what you come up with.

Eventually, with a bit of help from me, we found out that another GP must have been in touch with Prof Q and she confirmed that I should be prescribed progesterone while I am TTC naturally. So I got a prescription for that, which is very timely as AF is due any day! What is not timely is that I asked for this months ago and now my NHS Prescription Prepayment Certificate has run out so I'll have to payout again! But as I always tell myself - it doesn't really matter what it costs to get our Baby!

Why use Progesterone? Well some trials have shown that it can help ladies who have had recurrent early miscarriages. For example one big trial:  http://www.medscinet.net/promise/default.aspx
Also Prof Q said her partner Prof Brosens had had some success in his current trial with ladies using steroids and progesterone - so I'm giving it a go!

IVF #5 - Failed Cycle Review

Today I went to our old clinic to discuss our failed cycle. Luckily it was with the nice FS who has been looking after us. We discussed how I felt the cycle went and I told him I was upset when I had the scans because I only had 2 follicles and that the scans were painful because of the endometroma. I also told him that we were really pleased that we got 3 eggs, that all three fertilised and that we ended up with a morula. The FS said that it was very good to get 100% fertilisation and normally only 1 out of 4 or 1 out of 5 make it to blasto or morula stage and we had 1 out of 3.

The FS checked that ET had gone well with no problems like it had at the trial run that they did at EC. He also checked that the gestone had worked properly and I didn't get AF before test day - so there isn't a progesterone problem. It was at this point, when there didn't seem an obvious reason that the cycle hadn't worked that I told him about us going to Athens and having the fibroid removed. He was very interested and noted it all down in my medical notes. (I have since emailed him the video link and asked for his feedback on it).

The only negative thing about the appointment was the fact that the FS reckons we only have about 5% chance of conceiving by trying naturally because of my age, low AMH, blocked tube and endometriosis. This put a bit of a dampener on my enthusiasm to try as soon as AF arrives and I tried not to get upset, especially as I was by myself because Hubby had to work. The FS reckons that we have a 10% chance with IVF and we discussed whether we were thinking of doing another cycle. I didn't tell him about the Femara and I said that I was sticking to our plan for the next three months at least, and then we might go to Athens because it is cheaper and they try different drug regimes. He was very kind and said that if we decided to do IVF in Athens and we needed a scan doing before we go, the clinic would do it!

Finally as I left, the FS said I was to email him when I was pregnant because he reckons that we will get there one way or another because of my persistence, and I have to agree!