IVF Consultation

We had our IVF Consultation today. It was just a phone consultation since the Dr is in California. It was nice chatting with him and he seems like a very nice guy. I am excited but nervous at the same time, but we are really doing this. We have some things to do to get ready for IVF, so the actual IVF wont be until November/December. Still I am excited to think that I could be pregnant by the end of this year.

So I gave in, I am going back on Metformin. I hate that stuff! It makes me so incredibly sick! I have resisted doing it but I am finally to the point where I am resigned to whatever torture I have to go through to have a child. So Metformin it is. I am going to start it tomorrow night which means I will spend the weekend sick. They are going to start me out at 500 mg and I will work my way up to 1500 mg. I honestly have bad memories of the last time I was on it. I constantly felt sick to my stomach and I threw up a few times. They are estimating that in about 6-8 weeks I should have built up my dosage and been over feeling sick. So I guess we will see.

I know this sounds very counter productive, but I am going on birth control for two months. They have to regulate my cycles so that will do it for them. So last time I was on birth control, that stuff also made me sick. So I get a double whammy from metformin and birth control at the same time. It is going to be an awesome couple of months.

The Dr also went over when we get to the stimulation stage and I get to stab myself with needles every day. I am not looking forward to that either. I have watched enough you tube videos and read enough horror stories to give me nightmares for the next few months. I keep trying to tell myself it wont be as bad as it sounds. Pretty much the entire procedure and all the stuff leading up to it is really going to suck, but if this is what it will take for a baby... then so be it!

It also sounds like they will be doing ICSI which is a bit more expensive. I wont go into detail and gross everyone out as to what exactly they do for ICSI, but lets just say Mikes stuff and my egg are being forced together whether they like it or not!

Anyways I am super nervous about this all but I guess I have time before the actual procedure. I just have to survive a month of being sick from metformin, and then a few weeks of self injections, and a needle being shoved thru my vaginal wall to retrieve eggs... but eventually I have hope that all of this will lead to a baby. If not a baby right at first, I am hoping for some extra embryos to freeze so attempt two wont be as bad and expensive.

Anyways, wish me luck!!