One can only assume that the super strength antibiotics I was on last week have messed up me cycle. There is no 'real' evidence to suggest it can, but a few post online have said that the particular antibiotic cocktail I was on, affected AF.
I started taking the antibiotics on CD31, the day AF should have arrived, but she didn't, she arrives on CD37, the day before I stopped taking the pills. My AF cramps are usually unbearable, this month I had one bad morning and thats it. In the past week I've probably used 4 tampons total, as the bleeding isn't even enough to warrant wearing one, so I suppose thats just prolonged spotting right?
Maybe this will stretch next cycle out a little bit more so we have more of a chance of squeezing IUI in at the start of next AF. I want to get this started so bad, but I'm also starting to let the negativity creep in some what and letting IF beat me down once again.
All i've read these past few days is how IUI for unexplained in useless, and theres no point in doing it. Success rates are no higher than 'normal' people having 'normal' sex during any 'normal' month. I don't want to spend three months with false hope. I know the first month is going to be the worst, my first month on Clomid was horrific. I have NEVER been so upset and angry as the day AF arrived after the first month of treatment, I don't know what I'm going to do when the first IUI fails. I'll be a mess, thats what I'll do. I know, I need to be positive, but I'm a realist, if clomid and timed intercourse didn't work, why would IUI? They can't even figure out whats wrong with us, so why would it work?
I'm just seeing IUI as three hoops i need to jump through in order to get to IVF. Three painful hoops that I'll collapse onto the floor after every jump, only to make myself get back up and do it all again.
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I'd like to think it would do some good. I mean they're cutting down on the time it takes to get to the egg and only depositing the best sperm. You've got good eggs and Martin (bless him, I'm talking about his gametes) has great sperm.
ReplyDeleteSo the GI meds have messed with your cycle? Ugh. Well they'll be well on the way out of your system when it's time for IUIs. I want NHS to hurry their arses up!!
F'n meds and ruining cycles. I agree with tennis, it's getting the sperm right to the perfect spot in the uterus. The odds are no doubt higher.
ReplyDeleteI would like to tell you to stop googling but frankly, that's all I've been doing the last few months, lol.
xoxo
I'll go with 'some good', i'll accept anything at this moment in time! I'm not going to hold my breath for the NHS to hurry up, I'm starting to seriously think it's going to be June time before we get IUI started, despite the fact that if it wasn't for continued screw ups we could have started in December....in a way I can kinda take a silver lining from it, the longer we have to wait for IUI, the further away IVF is, which means the further away the end of our treatment is....
ReplyDeleteI'm an eternal pessimist ;)