Friday, December 12, 2008

WTF appt

We had our WTF appt yesterday (yep, it’s the “what the eff” appt.) It went ok I guess. I knew that there wouldn’t be any answers, but it still sucked to not really get any. Also, several of the nurses came in and said how sorry they were it didn’t work. I’m happy to report that I only started to cry once though.

Anyways, there are no real answers as to why it didn’t work. The embryos seemed to be great, so we’re leaning more towards something preventing them from implanting. It still could be just that we’re in the unlucky percentage that it didn’t work for, but we’d rather go with the thought that something is actually wrong. With that thought process we’ll take the time to figure out something to change before doing the FET. If we went with the attitude that we were just unlucky this time, we’d go straight to the FET without checking out other things and could potentially miss something important.

We found out some more family history of things and are looking into some of that. They took 4 vials of blood yesterday to check things like PAI-1, ANA, and a handful of other things. Some of it has to do with auto immune diseases, which seems to sort of run in the family. Something else that I might want to have checked is if I have Endometriosis. For the most part, the work around for that would be IVF –however there have been studies that not only are there physical things that Endo affects, but that it affects various levels of things that can hinder egg development and impair implantation. Dr. S doesn’t seem that interested in looking into this idea, but I may bring it up again after this round of blood work comes back. I don’t have any pain that is often associated with it, but you don’t have to. It does seem to run in my family though, so I think it might be worth looking in to.

There is still the problem of why I don’t respond to the hormones well and only produce a small number of follies. We’re not really looking at that, or how to change the stimming protocol, because Jason and I aren’t sure if we’ll do another fresh IVF cycle or not. It just depends on a lot of things and we’ll have to decide where it’s best for our money to go.

So that’s our update – nothing much to report really.

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