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@OurEastAndWest: Nope this will be the first time.

@OurEastAndWest: The actual procedure doesn't scare me, just the results. I've had IUDs, cervical balloons and pitocin contractions so hopefully it won't be bad. I've read that if you have a blocked tube is can be pretty painful and that's what I'm worried about.

I'm really glad that I'll be able to watch the screen (I think!) and know the results right away because the waiting would drive me crazy!!

@crazydoglady: If both of my tubes are blocked, IVF would be our only option. I had tubal sparing surgery for an ectopic last year that could have eventually caused my tube(s) to become blocked.
I do think it's unlikely that both of my tubes are blocked since I have been pregnant numerous times since that surgery but it's possible that it happened recently (according to the RE anyways).

@mrskansas: I hope it goes well! My HSG was painful with the balloon but like others, I was able to see it and get the results right then and there. Fingers crossed that there aren't any issues!!

@OurEastAndWest: keep us updated about your appointment! I hope it went well!

Well, I am disappointed Our appointment with my RE started out great, and I still feel like we got a lot of information out of it, but we can't move forward with *beginning* the IVF process for another 1-3 months from now

My husband was a social smoker in high school/college and has quit many times but still uses Nicorete gum to help keep cigarette cravings at bay. Apparently she doesn't want him to be on ANY nicotine at all. None. It is up to us to decide if we want to start IVF before he goes a full 3 months without any nicotine like she'd prefer, but it needs to be at least one full month before we can schedule anything. So we'll have to make another appointment in a month or so and go back to discuss the actual details of the plan and make the final decisions, all of that. Which obviously means it won't happen right after that so we're really looking at months from now before we can begin. *sigh*

We received a link to a video about IVF to watch but really other than that we are just at a standstill. 'Keep taking your vitamins, eating right, and no nicotine.' I was hoping we could at least do the egg retrieval in the next few months so we could go into / start the new year KNOWING if IVF was even a possibility for us... We knew our RE wasn't a fan of him using nicotine but never thought it would be a reason we couldn't move forward. She didn't make him stop before our IUIs so we just were so surprised we couldn't start IVF because of it. My husband felt terrible of course but I wasn't mad at him at all, or at my RE for that matter, just at the whole process of infertility in general! Even when we try to make a plan, we can't make a plan! Grrr!!!

So we are still at square one. Yuck, yuck, yuck! I am letting myself be down about it today {...and maybe tomorrow too ha} then I'm on a mission to get myself in a healthy mind & body, and start the research process on IVF so I can be armed with answers before they are even asked ha!

@crazydoglady: I am right there with you on balancing the two

@mrskansas: @crazydoglady: Frustrating is a great word! We were both disappointed about it for sure. I personally have never smoked a cigarette in my life, but I guess there is enough data that nicotine can cause issues that she doesn't mess around with it {...Even though his sperm count was 255 million pre-wash for our first IUI so obviously that is not our infertility issue! }

My next AF is due on Thanksgiving {just like last year, how thoughtful of her!} so then for the following cycle AF would be due around Christmas- which is *right* when we'll be in Colorado for the holidays So I'm guessing that the earliest we could actually start IVF is not until the end of January! That's why I was so bummed. I was hoping that since we were seeing her this early in my current cycle that we would be able to start the stims & all that right after my period comes around Thanksgiving. That way we could do the egg retrieval part of the process in early-mid December and be able to relax over the holidays having the {first} retrieval done and therefore having a better grasp on what our overall chances really are- do I actually have bad quality eggs, etc. I'm still not 100% sure how all of this IVF business works so maybe I'm wrong but I always thought stims start at/right after your AF.

We asked if it was an option to do the egg retrieval only and freeze my eggs and then have his sperm 'join in the party later', haha, but they want to freeze embryos not eggs; unless it's just not possible for whatever reason of course.

Hopefully I'm wrong about the IVF timeline, I'm sure I'll ask around the IVF boards here and see what I can figure out, but in the meantime I'm trying to mentally prepare myself for an egg retrieval starting the end of January and the FET for sometime in February or March I guess. Just feels so far away, you know?? Like you said, with TTC there's always a roadblock somewhere!

Whelp, my surgery to have the uterine septum removed is done! I was a little crampy today but nothing some good old acetaminophen wouldn't help. Now its just a waiting game. First waiting for the balloon in my uterus to be removed (early next week) then waiting for December so we can sit down with my RE and decide on a plan for IVF which we will start in January! I have to do two full cycles and then we will start IVF, my current cycle counts as the first so I'll have one more full cycle then IVF will start at the beginning of my cycle that starts in January!

@Marfi: I'm so glad your procedure went well & wasn't too painful! I'll be starting up IVF in January as well so we can be IVF buddies

@LabradorLover: Thank you I am unexplained as well, which is insanely frustrating, but I SO hope you all are able to make Femera alone work!!

@OurEastAndWest: i was totally planning to be pregnant this holiday season too!

@mrskansas: glad for some good news for you!

@mrskansas: yay!! That’s awesome!!

@mrskansas: Do happy for you! The "this is probably all bad luck" line isn't fun to swallow I know, but very glad nothing game changing was revealed.

@crazydoglady: sure looks positive to me! Get to that seduction!

@mrskansas: I’m right there with you in the bad luck category - it sucks but there is always a little hope. And maybe all that bd will do the trick

I had to spend the weekend at the hospital with my son for his asthma - it wasn’t super scary but we couldn’t treat it at home. It made me feel very thankful to live in the era of modern medicine, and thankful to have our kids, even if we don’t have another. Feeling in a good mental place, for now at least, about whatever happens this cycle.